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Tax refund for 5 month working in london as sales assistant?

• I would like to know if someone can help me about my problems with tax refund. I am Italian and I've started working as a sales assistant on 1st February 2011 and I will quit my job at the end of June and I will come back to Italy as well. I know that I can ask for a total refund for the taxes that I have payed, but in HMRC web site for me it is quite difficult to understand. My questions are as follows: 1) today May 24, at least can I ask for tax refund for the months February and March of the fiscal year 2010/2011, or it is better waiting the end of june and ask for the months all togheter? Do you know if I can do it online? I suppose that I need the P60, but my employes didn't gave me yet, i suppose they will agve me when I will quit the 30th june... 2) For the remaining months of April, May, June I know that I have to ask to my employer the P45, P60 and P85 to fill out by myself. Then what shall I do? I send to HMRC office that is written on my payrolls? Do you know how long it takes to have a refound? I ask to someone else to help me to do it for me, but they ask me 12,5% of fees on my refund to do it.... Thank you very much for your help and sorry again for disturbing you. 10 points to the better answer!

• Answer:

  The tax year in the UK is April 1st - March 31st, so you'll have to take each year separately So for the year 2010-2011, you will get a refund if you earned less than £6475 for that full year and paid tax For this tax year 2011-2012, you will have to tell them once you have left, or about to leave but you will need your P.60 from 2010-2011, as proff of what tax you paid last year If everything is straightforward and you give them all the information they need, a tax rebate can be as quick as four weeks, just make sure you have all the inforamtion they need which will come from your P.60 and your past wage slips