Change to UK Tax Laws: Is Your Rebate Right?

Sept. 4, 2008 - PRLog -- PAYEright.co.uk can check your tax code, ensure it is correct and liaise with H M Revenue & Customs to ensure that you receive the correct tax refund in light of the recent government changes.

In the 2007 Budget, Gordon Brown, who was then Chancellor, announced that he was scrapping the 10 per cent tax band. He also lowered the basic rate of tax from 22 per cent to 20 per cent. These changes came into effect at the begining of the 2008 tax year, and it soon became clear that low-income tax payers would be hit hardest by these changes to the tax system.

In an attempt to remedy this situation, and in what many saw as a backtrack, the government announced in May of 2008 that they were amending its Budget proposals and would raise the level of personal allowance and lower the higher tax rate threshold. The changes will be backdated to the start of the 2008/2009 tax year with taxpayers being eligible for a tax refund if they have overpaid tax at any point in the proceeding months.

It’s fair to say that by this point most people in the UK are pretty confused by a tax system that was already somewhat oblique. On the face of it the information is out there; everyone has a personal allowance of £6,035 in the tax year 2008/2009 which is not taxed (the revised allowance announced in May). However, as is evidently the case, the tax system is liable to regular adjustments which are out of the individual’s control, and not all revisions will be as high profile as the 10 per cent tax issue. And even if an individual is sure that they are elgible for a tax rebate how to go about getting it is another issue. The official instructions are simply: contact your local tax office, but this can be a lengthy and time consuming process.


This is where the services of PAYEright.co.uk come in. The online company specialises in making sure that Pay As You Earners, employees who have tax deducted by their employers each month according to a tax code issued to them by the H M Revenues & Customs, get any tax refunds that are due to them. They ensure you have the right tax code, deal with all the relevant red tape and paperwork and arrange for you to receive your rebate as quickly and painlessly as possible. With one in three people being eligible for a tax rebate and a tax system that is subject to changes at any time, make sure you are getting what’s rightfully yours at www.payeright.co.uk.

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