Awesome! You may need to keep on the boss (to have the boss keep on the [expletives deleted] in HR) to make sure it happens. Assuming that you get paid every two weeks, they get two paychecks to get it right. The next paycheck may have already been processed, but the one after that should have been fixed. If you only get paid monthly, they only have ONE paycheck to get it right.
Well, it's payday today and it's still unchanged, so that makes them 3 paychecks behind (biweekly). At least I'm assured when it does come it will be huge.
1. Phrasing 2. Cue a comically large cheque that's removed 2/3rds of the pay for "admin fees" 3. Cue said cheque not being valid and the actual valid cheque being AWOL for another six weeks
I had quite a bit of extra money from work last year, which is nice. It does mean extra PAYE and NI payments (types of tax). Sad. However the big kicker was the extra money taking me over the personal limit for claiming child benefit and now I have to pay back nearly £3000 in tax. Oh and the taxman only told me after 3 years so I could have not claimed and have to pay back if they had told me after the first year. Knobs
HMRC are super-efficent at their jobs, chasing people up for mistakes that they themselves made years ago, while letting Amazon pay a whopping £4.6m on *checks* £2bn profit. So uh *double checks* a 0.23% tax rate. Oh, and paying them 11m for web and cloud hosting. (To be fair only £80m of that was UK-applicable though so the real rate is 6%, but still, when you consider that we pay 20% VAT on many items we buy from them....) We need to stockpile it in case of a no-deal Brexit. Besides, our usual revolutionary methods in Europe involve beheading those in charge.
Not sure if I've shared this before but I had quite an interation with 'Er Maj's Revenue & Customs. Turns out I'd underpaid tax a few years ago, their bean counters noticed and sent me a bill, less than a hundred quid so not a huge problem for me. Called them to pay over the tellingbone, they tell me to send a cheque with the bill they sent me. After explaining I no longer live in the past they said I can go into my bank and get a bank draft, slight problem, I no longer live in the UK so getting a draft from a UK bank could be tricky before their deadline. They accept postal orders too! Oh yeah, you need to go to a UK Post Office branch for one of those. Pay by card? Not for bills of this age. Bank transfer? Wire? I still have a UK bank account, but sorry no they can't do that. Yeah...
They've done it to me before with child tax credit. These systems are all ridiculously inconsistent. The child tax credit threshold is based on the household income. The Child Benefit threshold is based on the single top earner. They work out child tax credit retroactively for previous year, so you claim based on your child care costs and then a year later they work out based on your previous year's income how much you were supposed to get. We went over the household threshold and they claimed that year's payment back - that's an overpayment, not a tax. Child benefit has a different threshold, and once you're over that you become liable to a tax, it's not an overpayment. So now I have to pay an accountant to do a tax return for me. They are both paid back differently, tax credit they accepted a monthly direct debit, but the benefit tax I will pay via my PAYE code, so it comes out of my paycheck, I guess over a year. I wouldn't worry about Brexit, the Tories are busy screaming at each other over hijabs now.
On one hand, they do a lot of the assessment themselves rather than an entire industry having been built up around tax returns like in the US, on the other hand they do a lot of the assessment themselves.
Yeah I have mixed feelings about the mighty yet fearsome tax industry, but having been born and raised in a totalitarian regime I know that letting government be solely responsible for determining how much you owe them is just an invitation to get unceremoniously sodomized
If they haven't fixed it by 24Aug's paycheck, time to tell your boss again. If they haven't fixed it by the first paycheck in September, you report them to the government. My local Department of Labor takes it rather personally when employers try to screw their employees, and take great pleasure in kicking the employers right in the bank account. Back pay, plus interest to employee, fines and fees to the DoL.
A British woman who went on holiday to Benidorm was upset that there were so many Spanish people there. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153 Quick reminder of where Benidorm is...
My sister-in-law works in a beachfront hotel, their staff are frequently asked if they can do anything about all the fish in the sea!
