| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded 15:39 - Apr 2 with 1129 views | GeoffSentence |
I've been waiting 6 weeks, now they tell me I need to send them a letter.
An actual physical letter.
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 15:50 - Apr 2 with 1092 views | TractorWood |
Yes. I made a complaint and it got resolved very quickly. A week or so later.
The underlying problem is normally that your refund request gets stuck as it has triggered a fraud warning or something similarly vague. |  |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:00 - Apr 2 with 1059 views | textbackup |
I hope you get to charge them as they would you! |  |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:04 - Apr 2 with 1036 views | GeoffSentence |
| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:00 - Apr 2 by textbackup |
I hope you get to charge them as they would you! |
That's the thing isn't, they'd charge me for a late payment.
I'm not happy. | |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:11 - Apr 2 with 999 views | textbackup |
| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:04 - Apr 2 by GeoffSentence |
That's the thing isn't, they'd charge me for a late payment.
I'm not happy. |
Absolute bags of sht.
Hope you get every penny you are owed | |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:11 - Apr 2 with 1001 views | mutters |
Curious to know how you have been liaising with them?
With mine they owned me, logged onto the website, filled in the details and 5 days later it was in my bank account. Which is a whole lot better than one year when they sent my payment to my old address (my mistake as I had recently moved). It took them 26 weeks to issue a new one as they had to wait for the cheque to expire before they could issue another 🤦🏽 |  |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:36 - Apr 2 with 924 views | GeoffSentence |
| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:11 - Apr 2 by mutters |
Curious to know how you have been liaising with them?
With mine they owned me, logged onto the website, filled in the details and 5 days later it was in my bank account. Which is a whole lot better than one year when they sent my payment to my old address (my mistake as I had recently moved). It took them 26 weeks to issue a new one as they had to wait for the cheque to expire before they could issue another 🤦🏽 |
Initial request was via the self-assessment website, I was expecting it to a smooth process as generally speaking the gov.uk website is clear and slick. It said it could take 2-4 weeks.
After 4 weeks I contacted HMRC via phone, their agent said it was being worked on but going through security checks so it would take another 2 weeks.
Waited just over 2 weeks more and called them back this time it was still going through security checks and I need to send them a letter.
I hope it doesn't take 26 weeks to pay me, that would get my goat. As they haven't issued a cheque or any form of payment I would hope not.
What is more galling is that I am an advocate for paying tax, it irks me that people try to wriggle out of it any way they can, that just puts more of a burden on those who do pay their tax as well as starving services of funds. But I am beginning to see why people dont like the HMRC. | |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:45 - Apr 2 with 900 views | Radlett_blue |
I had a worse problem. For some reason, I had underpaid my income tax for 2023-24 (I am retired so no longer on PAYE). I first knew about this when the Inland Revenue sent me a letter in January 2025, threatening to send the payment due of a few hundred pounds to debt collectors. I assumed this was phishing letter, so first ignored it. When I contacted the Inland Revenue, they claimed to have sent me letters in the Autumn, which I never received. So, I paid the sum (plus a penalty) as I seemed to have little choice, although the issue was down to them getting my tax code wrong. |  |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:50 - Apr 2 with 880 views | GeoffSentence |
| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:45 - Apr 2 by Radlett_blue |
I had a worse problem. For some reason, I had underpaid my income tax for 2023-24 (I am retired so no longer on PAYE). I first knew about this when the Inland Revenue sent me a letter in January 2025, threatening to send the payment due of a few hundred pounds to debt collectors. I assumed this was phishing letter, so first ignored it. When I contacted the Inland Revenue, they claimed to have sent me letters in the Autumn, which I never received. So, I paid the sum (plus a penalty) as I seemed to have little choice, although the issue was down to them getting my tax code wrong. |
Yes, that is a worse problem. Must have been stressful to get threatening letters. | |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:53 - Apr 2 with 871 views | Keno |
I posted a little while back about this.
Try emailing Jim Harra, who is the head of HMRC jim.harra@hmrc.gov.uk
I had a similar issues, wasnt getting anywhere until I emailed him and hey presto it got resolved but £150 compensation [Post edited 2 Apr 16:54]
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:54 - Apr 2 with 853 views | GeoffSentence |
| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:53 - Apr 2 by Keno |
I posted a little while back about this.
Try emailing Jim Harra, who is the head of HMRC jim.harra@hmrc.gov.uk
I had a similar issues, wasnt getting anywhere until I emailed him and hey presto it got resolved but £150 compensation [Post edited 2 Apr 16:54]
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Brilliant, thanks Keno, I'll give that a go. | |
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| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 18:28 - Apr 2 with 761 views | Guthrum |
| Anyone else have trouble getting a tax overpayment refunded on 16:45 - Apr 2 by Radlett_blue |
I had a worse problem. For some reason, I had underpaid my income tax for 2023-24 (I am retired so no longer on PAYE). I first knew about this when the Inland Revenue sent me a letter in January 2025, threatening to send the payment due of a few hundred pounds to debt collectors. I assumed this was phishing letter, so first ignored it. When I contacted the Inland Revenue, they claimed to have sent me letters in the Autumn, which I never received. So, I paid the sum (plus a penalty) as I seemed to have little choice, although the issue was down to them getting my tax code wrong. |
My mother had that after she retired, constant wrangling about tax codes which they couldn't seem to get right to their own satisfaction. Demands followed by refunds. Think it eventually got sorted out, but took years. |  |
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