kar-kier

Does anyone know roughly how long it's likely to be before i see any money?

I sent it off a couple of weeks ago and have heard nothing back yet, which isn't surprising since it takes a week to get there and a week to get a reply! But just wondered are we looking at weeks, or months?

Kareena

hereshoping

Mine took about a month and a half- they didn't notify me, just put the money in my account in the UK.

My husband sent his p85 off in the same envelope as mine, but they still haven't managed to process his 6 months on due a litany of errors and losses on their part.

So who knows?

Stu Ward

Mine took Nearly 8 months.
Same problem as above, lost forms, sent to the wrong office etc etc

My wifes took about 8 weeks

Stu

Wendy66

Recently got mine, took just over a month they sent me notification and then it was paid in the account

Burkins

I got mine after about 6 weeks. My husband is still waiting, tax office say that they put it in our account but not received by us, 2 phone calls and 2 letters later we are still trying to sort.

leave_n_on_a_Jet

filed mine on the tax mans website, got the refund about 2-3 days later straight into my uk bank account.

James

kar-kier

How did you do it on the internet? You need to send off your P45!

NikiL

It depends on your bank as to how long it takes. They send it by cheque to the bank and Nationwide in particular take forever to pay it in - we ended up having the original cheque cancelled as Nationwide took 4 weeks to pay it in.

Mine took about 8 weeks to be cleared funds, OH's would have taken about 9 weeks.

Fly Away

How?? I've searched and searched for a way to do this....

NikiL

I'll send you the link tomorrow Nic - its form P85 from the IRS website...need to go to bed now.......

Fly Away

Thanks hun - I've got the form, but there is no way to lodge it online. It has to be posted.

leave_n_on_a_Jet

Self employed, i own a business in the uk so just done my SA online.

James

Fly Away

Sorry James, you confused me, I was talking about form 85 - the one where you tell the tax office you have left the country. It's total madness, you can't lodge it online.... it should be the very first thing they organised online as otherwise it will have to be posted from overseas....

TMRE

Sent ours a week before we left with the "date you left or intend to leave the UK" field filled in.

Pollyana

Thats all I did - sent it off as soon as I had the P45, which was a couple of weeks before I left.