Hi,
I worked through the umbrella company, Giant, for around 8 months but became so frustrated by the fact that they wouldn't pay me on the same day each week, as well as abysmal customer service, that I decided to leave and just get paid directly by the agency through whom I'd secured the job. This was about 6 weeks into the new financial year - April/May 2017.
I assumed that they were paying the correct amount of deductions on my behalf, however, today, I received a letter from HMRC saying that I owe them £356 for the year 2017/2018.
I've done a check on a tax calculator (below) and the amount of tax one should should have paid on my income for the last tax year matches what HMRC say should have been paid - £2,427.20 - which means the £356 underpayment appears to be correct.
But should that figure still be the same if, for a small part of the financial year, I was being paid by an umbrella company?
If so, was I wrong to make the assumption that Giant would pay my tax as necessary, and do I have any form of redress?
https://goodcalculators.com/tax-calculator-2017/
I worked through the umbrella company, Giant, for around 8 months but became so frustrated by the fact that they wouldn't pay me on the same day each week, as well as abysmal customer service, that I decided to leave and just get paid directly by the agency through whom I'd secured the job. This was about 6 weeks into the new financial year - April/May 2017.
I assumed that they were paying the correct amount of deductions on my behalf, however, today, I received a letter from HMRC saying that I owe them £356 for the year 2017/2018.
I've done a check on a tax calculator (below) and the amount of tax one should should have paid on my income for the last tax year matches what HMRC say should have been paid - £2,427.20 - which means the £356 underpayment appears to be correct.
But should that figure still be the same if, for a small part of the financial year, I was being paid by an umbrella company?
If so, was I wrong to make the assumption that Giant would pay my tax as necessary, and do I have any form of redress?
https://goodcalculators.com/tax-calculator-2017/
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