I pay money towards my tax bill every week by direct debit and after submitting my return I've overpaid HMRC. I decided I wanted £300 of this back and submitted (online) a repayment request. This was over two weeks ago. How long does a repayment normally take?
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I normally find them pretty quick (one to two weeks) but I suppose it's all down to both their workload and that of the post office which considering the time of year might be worth giving it anothers week or so before getting worried about it.
Always nice when money travels in the other direction isn't it!
Shaun.
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Shaun
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It is going directly into my bank account. The odd thing is, when I put in my bank account number and sort code, the address of the bank came back as different to mine. But it never asked for the address so I have no way of changing it. The address of the bank did ring a bell though so I think this may have happened in the past.
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Unfortunately there's no guarantees with refunds. I submitted H&W tax returns at the start of Dec - wife refund £200, Husband's £800. Wife received her's OK, husband still waiting. Spoke to HMRC, it had been selected for 'security checking', which is Revenue speak for delaying the issue of a repayment.
Over the last couple of years, we've seen quite a few variations on the various approaches:
- claimed the repayment online, HMRC did nothing - HMRC website said that a refund had been sent out, when it had not (had actually been sent to another Revenue office for, ahem, 'checking') - asked for a refund on the tax return and included the bank details, nothing happened
"security checking" is the phrase I've heard a few times lately, coincidentally or not, especially with CIS based returns. On a couple of occasions the client rang HMRC to move things along.
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Tony
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More than likely, although the link doesn't actually give the HMRC phone number. Had it done, it would have been 0844 premium rate for sure, as the other pages were.
Yes Johnny, 6 years is quite a while....
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strange. They say that they are in London, then they say that London is in the united states but for some reason they were on a computer in Delhi (India).
My what a well travelled poster they were.... Note the tense :D
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Lol. I'm probably missing a trick, but why is it always the old threads that are targeted?
I couldn't possibly tell you all their tactics on an open forum as then they would actually twig and find another way to dump their junk and get away with it. I would've PMd you to complete your training so you could join the spam spotters team but you don't allow PMs so on this occasion we are going to have to decline your application and mark your exam as a fail.
Oh Jonny boy!
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