For clients with salaries or fees paid under Pay As You Earn (PAYE), with tax deducted, I have noticed problems during the last year in several cases either with incorrect tax codings or with correct codes not applied properly. This has meant in two cases that most of the earnings are kept in tax when they shouldn’t be. This gets corrected eventually through the tax return if left, but this is not a practical solution if it involves a large proportion of a client’s income.
Some problems seem to have been caused by employers moving to ‘Real Time Information’. Where you do work paid through a company’s payroll, please check any payslip carefully. If there is any change to your coding, or if the amount you receive is very different from what you expected, do let me know. It can take a while to sort out but I will do anything I can to help.