Originally posted by PTP
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Found a brown envelope when I got home today 
They are saying that £1,200 is owed on £6,000 benefits in kind
On the tax return we put:
Benefits from your employment – use your form P11D (or equivalent information)
Q16: Expenses payments received and balancing charges £6,000
Employment Expenses
Q17: Business travel and subsistence expenses £6,000
So why are they still seeing it as a benefit and not an expense?
They are saying that £1,200 is owed on £6,000 benefits in kind
On the tax return we put:
Benefits from your employment – use your form P11D (or equivalent information)
Q16: Expenses payments received and balancing charges £6,000
Employment Expenses
Q17: Business travel and subsistence expenses £6,000
So why are they still seeing it as a benefit and not an expense?
By "tax return" I presume you mean Self Assessment return? In which case that should have calculated itself.
The brown envelope you have now may, given the time of year, be a tax code, and HMRC Tax Code Team may be assuming a similar level of expenses as per last years P11D without being aware it was all fully claimed as expense on Self Assessment.
Its the outworking of an antiquated tax system that politicians keep tinkering with rather than making it fit for purpose.
Your accountants should be able to interpret the bit of paper by type / date and tell you where the issue is.
I often say to clients if you get an unexpected tax bill, 9 out of 10 times its wrong.
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