Now a message from my sponsor (Mr GG has finally been let on the PC! Any mistakes are his own - bless!)

GG



If you are have worked in the UK and left mid tax year you can generally claim back tax. This is because your tax is taken out of your monthly pay based on what you are expected to earn over the year, hence if you finish work in the UK midway through a tax year you will have probably paid too much and should be able to get some back. Basically you need to print out and fill in the P85 form (link below):

http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/cnr/p85_p85s.htm

and then return it to you tax office along with a copy of your P45. If you don’t know your tax office postal address (and who does?) you can take the 'office number' off you P45 and use the following link to find the postal address (usually its nowhere near where you have been working).

http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/loca...uals/index.htm

The form was easy enough to fill out in our case as we don't have any UK assets or incomes such as rental properties etc so it should be straight forwards. There are apparently lots of agencies who will do you "tax back" for you although I'd imagine they just take a cut of your cash. I can't see why you'd want to bother as they can't make the Inland Revenue work any faster and the form is hardly taxing . . . . . . . get it? . . . . . ..see what I did there?

Mr GG

Quite right GG

Then you sit back and wait for months while they make interest on your money. Have been waiting 3 months so far

I love those disclaimers

Nice bit of info anyway. Cheers.

Well what about this.

I still have a chunk of money sitting in a UK bank, and every month I get interest on it, and every month they take about a quarter of it in tax, even though they know I'm no longer resident there. How do I get that back! Or is it ok for the WOOLwich to FLEECE me like that?

Get it?.... see what I did there?


Cheers,
JTL

I was thinking what else could be claimed back the other day. I came up with:
Child tax credit (part of PAYE claim or separate?)
Council tax paid in 10 instalments so always ahead
Water rates paid in 8 instalments ditto
TV licence (we currently pay annually up front)
Road tax (if you scrap or sell your car to a dealer)
Gas/electric (if you pay on D/D your balance will be refundable)

If you use internet banking you may be able to review direct debits as a list of possibles.

Anyone think of anything else?

we had to submit forms to our uk bank before they would pay the interest without deducting any tax. I would imagine that the woolwich would have a similar proceedure.

good luck, Andy

You can also get back the "unsued portion" of your car insurance and buildings/contents insurance (if you pay it annually in one lump sum). In other words, if you've paid 12 months but are off to Oz after 4 months, you can claim back 8 months.- Have a look at your policies.

Gina

Ewe really think you're funny..........

I sent my P85 to Inland Revenue in September 04 (when i left London), forgot all about it by november and in February realised that i'd had 700 GBP (approx $1600) in my uk Account since beginning of december.

nice surprise!

Lucky you
I waited several months after sending in our P85, then got a tax bill for 300 pounds, because they were still paying the child benefit (or whatever it is called now) into our account after we had left the UK. By sending in the P85, they knew where to find us. Bear that in mind, if you're hoping to get some money from them!

Whilst I'm updating threads, I thought I'd just let you know that Mr GG had a letter at the start of this week confirming that he'd be receiving a cheque for UK tax. That's a processing time of under 5 weeks. I think his tax office in the UK was Bradford (maybe?); mine was Cardiff (I think?!) and there's still no word about my tax. Hey ho.

GG

I guess you will be able to claim your tax back.

My query is, most UK bank/saving accounts have a condition where you must be a UK citizen to have account, how have you got around this or have you told them?

Cheers
tim

Hubby got his tax cheque back at the start of December......I am STILL waiting on mine!!

We put the forms in before we left in Sept 04!!

8 months and counting!!

I'll not start worrying just yet then!

GG