Hi I've requested a tax repayment online through self assessment but all it says after 6 weeks is that it's not yet been used. And that I can ask for a repayment. Last year it took 4 months for my repayment and was finally played on the 4th of Feb ... Nowhere on my account does it tell me what's going on or that I've even asked for a repayment just that I have 7552 credit on my account.... Cheers
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Request again
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Try claiming a repayment again off the site. Left menu column, click on "Request a repayment" and fill in the amount and bank details.
I haven't had a problem with repayments coming through this year but, last year, I had to do this in several cases.
rebates
I'm trying to remember if that online rebate request has ever worked first time....and I don't think it has once in literally dozens of attempts. And to make it more annoying they have now issued directions that you should wait for four weeks before enquiring about where it has gone. And when you do, they don't seem to have any record of the repayment request. And I've just checked a £2K repayment request which Ive requested online 3 times and by phone twice over a 2 month period....still nothing. Not as bad as the CIS rebate fiasco, but heading in the same direction. Outrageous really.
Four weeks ?
I wouldn't wait four weeks. I'd apply every few days. If HMRC want me to stop applying, I will do. Just as soon as my money arrives.
The cheek of it !!
Suggest you call HMRC
In virtually all cases where a repayment that has been requested online but has failed to materialise, I have discovered that there is something odd about my client's settings at HMRC which has inhibited the repayment and thus requires human intervention. I therefore think it would be worth asking someone at HMRC to look at the account and seem if there is a reason the repayment might not have been made. In one case it was 2p of NI that had been waved over 15 years ago and in another case, it was that a 'no repayment' button had been set for no apparent reason. In such cases asking for a repayment online will unfortunately never have the desired effect.
£2K rebate
I gave up an my £2K rebate...it took so long, that it rolled onto this January and so most of it will be owed back to HMRC. They had no records of any of the 4 online attempts.
And all the angry HMRC letters still pour in once a week from the debt recovery unit within a couple of weeks of tax being owed.