Noetic wrote:It's possible if either your employer is dodgy and keeps the money they tell you (on payslips etc) they deducted in tax and NI for themselves, or if they are useless and somehow submit it against the wrong person / NI number.
In any case this is tax already deducted from your wages and if the employment lasted a long time can amount to a lot of money. Other than not querying lack of P60s at the time OP has done no wrong and had no way of knowing anything was wrong.
OP has been very quiet about receiving P60s from this employment so I'm assuming they never got any - which should be a big warning sign if you don't get P60s or your pay slips don't say your NI number and total tax paid
BUT - there are some people on another thread OP linked to who do have P60 and payslips all saying tax was paid. So unless you apply for contribution based benefits or request employment history for one reason or another, you have absolutely no reason to think anything is wrong.
Like I said this is PAYE tax that the employer already took off your wages at the time - if you get your payslip every week or month and your P60s why on earth would you suspect the employer had actually stolen that money from you without paying it to HMRC? (Unless you're the employer's dodgy accountant!
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Hi
thanks for your explanation I work my self as a Corporate Finance and a Management Accounts and taxation consultant this is the first time I have come across any such thing.
To the best of my knowledge the PAYE is RTI based which means it gets submitted on a monthly basis.
2nd thing is the nature of this problem it really put me in doubts.
I have never ever paid any attention to the fact that how my tax is submitted I think if you are on a PAYE that's solely employers responsibility to pay your PAYE.
On the other hand if that's what you are saying to me than I believe UKBA should go an catch the employer responsible for this kind of stuff not the employee that's what my thoughts at least.
Getting worried about any thing wont make it better in any way shape of form.
The best advice come to my mind is that if the HMRC has no record of this employment than I think its pretty pointless mentioning on the AN form. that's what my thoughts or at least that's what I'll do God Forbid if I'll be in a similar boat as OP.
If the employment history doesn't exist with HMRC the OP can still prove it with the salary payment received in his/her bank account and the payslips issued. Off course UKBA can't turn back and say that you have made these salary payments by your self so I think we can use this approach to solve this kind of a problem and just attach all the bank statements and payslips and P60s to prove if they are available to the OP.
Apologies if my idea didn't sound much brighter.
I have never ever come across any such thread on this forum which will tells us about a problem of this nature.
If I'll be any kind of help to you mate please do not hesitate to contact me.
Good luck mate with your naturalisation.
Kindly keep us updated on the forum.
