Most people never check the code on their payslip, and a wrong one can quietly cost you hundreds of pounds a year. If you have changed jobs, have more than one income, or had a company benefit change, your code may be wrong. We check it, fix it, and reclaim what you have overpaid, going back up to four years, for a fixed fee.
PAYE Tax Refunds & Tax Code Checks, UK
Your tax code is the instruction your employer or pension provider uses to work out how much tax to take from every payment. When it is right, you never notice. When it is wrong, you can overpay for years without a single warning, because neither your employer nor HMRC actively checks it for you. They simply apply whatever code is on file. The most common causes are changing jobs, being put on an emergency code, having a second job or pension taxed with no allowance, or a company benefit such as a car or medical cover ending without the code catching up.
Your Tax Help Accountants checks your tax code and your last four years of PAYE tax as a standard part of taking you on. We find where the code was wrong, calculate exactly what you overpaid, and make the claim to HMRC to get it back, with the refund paid into your account. We also make sure your code is corrected going forward so the overpayment stops. One fixed fee, and for most refund work it is a fraction of what we recover.
If you have overpaid through the wrong tax code, you can usually reclaim it for up to four tax years. For many employees that runs to several hundred pounds, sometimes more, sitting with HMRC waiting to be claimed.
What We Handle
We read your current code and recent payslips, explain what it means in plain English, and flag immediately whether it is costing you money.
Put on an emergency code after a new job or a pension withdrawal? We reclaim the tax you were over-charged while the code was wrong.
A BR or 0T code on a second income taxes it with no tax-free allowance. We check it is right and recover any overpayment.
A company car or medical cover that ended but the code never updated, or a missing allowance, corrected and reclaimed.
We review up to four tax years of PAYE and claim back tax overpaid through an incorrect code across that whole period.
We get HMRC to put you on the correct code, so your future pay is taxed properly and the overpayment never repeats.
Almost nobody is, because the only way to know is to check the code against your circumstances. Send us your code and a recent payslip and we can usually tell you within minutes whether you are owed money. There is no cost to find out, and if your code is correct we will say so plainly. If you have overpaid, we recover it for a fixed fee that comes out of the refund.
Recent Client Outcome
An employee changed jobs midway through the tax year. Her new employer did not receive her P45 in time, so she was put on an emergency tax code and then, when it was not corrected, a code that gave her none of her tax-free allowance against part of her income. Her take-home was lighter every month, but she assumed it was just how the new job paid.
We checked her code against her circumstances, found she had been over-taxed for almost two years across the change, and calculated the exact overpayment. We submitted the claim to HMRC with a clear breakdown and had her code corrected for the current year.
The refund came back at just over £1,100, and her monthly take-home rose once the correct code was applied. She now has us check her code each year so it never drifts again.
Why Clients Choose Us
Tax Refund Questions Answered
Free fifteen-minute call. Send us your tax code and a recent payslip, we will tell you if it is wrong, reclaim what you overpaid, and get you onto the right code. Same accountant, start to finish.
Or email info@yourtaxhelp.co.uk, we typically respond within two business hours.
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