Tax codes?

[proton]

Never took much notice before but letter from HRMC in Jan said new tax code is k559X from 2367- from April 6th. This month stopped me over 200 quid tax, normally it's 68. Thing is nothing has changed all last year stopping 68 quid off the council pension. Apart from state and council pension only about 2k a year taxable interest, at a loss to understand whey they changed it and the tax is now about 3x higher when income is the same. Do they often make mistakes?

[topt]

On 1/31/2025 at 9:32 PM, proton said:

Never took much notice before but letter from HRMC in Jan said new tax code is k559X from 2367- from April 6th. This month stopped me over 200 quid tax, normally it's 68. Thing is nothing has changed all last year stopping 68 quid off the council pension. Apart from state and council pension only about 2k a year taxable interest, at a loss to understand whey they changed it and the tax is now about 3x higher when income is the same. Do they often make mistakes?

yes.

Martin Lewis of Money saving Expert had a thing on checking tax codes a while ago. Try looking it up.

 

If you have a Government Gateway account you could be able to go in and find out exactly what they are basing it on and get it changed.. My guess is, if your old enough, the theoretical increase to the state pension - which if frozen is very irritating. There is already a current thread on here about that - -

https://aseannow.com/topic/1349833-getting-uk-hmrc-to-recognise-my-uk-state-pension-as-not-receiving-the-yearly-increases/

 

If not then must be something else they think you are getting.

 

[proton]

5 minutes ago, topt said:

yes.

Martin Lewis of Money saving Expert had a thing on checking tax codes a while ago. Try looking it up.

 

If you have a Government Gateway account you could be able to go in and find out exactly what they are basing it on and get it changed.. My guess is, if your old enough, the theoretical increase to the state pension - which if frozen is very irritating. There is already a current thread on here about that - -

https://aseannow.com/topic/1349833-getting-uk-hmrc-to-recognise-my-uk-state-pension-as-not-receiving-the-yearly-increases/

 

If not then must be something else they think you are getting.

 

 

Yes I joined the gateway to access all the figures but nobody can understand their reasoning. They don't appear to have an email, unless it's well hidden so I put in a complaint and if that goes nowhere will write. They have a chat function but as usual the auto chat is useless, you can get to chat to a real person, probably in India though.