# UK Income Tax question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956 "2005-03-23T22:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956/1 "2005-03-23T22:40:21Z")
Due to working two part-time jobs, I’ve ended up with too much income tax deducted through PAYE. I’ve looked at the Inland Revenue website, and they just give the vague suggestion of ‘contact your local tax office’. Before I do that, I’d like to make sure I don’t waste my time by not having things in order. What will I need? Will the final payslip from each job be sufficient? Do I need to dig out other paperwork as well? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956/2 "2005-03-23T22:57:58Z")
Save yourself the hassle and get an accountant. It’ll cost but they’ll do it right **and** the Inland Revenue are less likely to complain. Did I mention that they sent me two letters saying that I owe them the grand sum of 45 pence? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956/3 "2005-03-23T23:17:25Z")
I like the idea of needing an accountant - but we’re talking about something like £30 here. And there’s no complexities anywhere else in my finances that an accountant could get to grips with. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956/4 "2005-03-23T23:24:49Z")
Do you get some sort of “statement of PAYE tax deducted” from each of your employers? Here all you would do is submit those with your return and the tax office would refund the overpaid PAYE tax directly to your bank account. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956/5 "2005-03-23T23:28:17Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Do you get some sort of “statement of PAYE tax deducted” from each of your employers? Here all you would do is submit those with your return and the tax office would refund the overpaid PAYE tax directly to your bank account. Sounds good - I presume I’ll get that with the April payslip. (And it’s one employer, local government, with jobs in two departments, so I’m amazed that they haven’t fully screwed things up themselves 😉 …) ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-income-tax-question/295956/6 "2005-03-23T23:31:50Z")
I sympathise, I found myself having to provide information that I knew they already had. You can’t beat this system though and a phone call to them is probably the quickest way to find out what it is they require. For some reason my tax office is in Scotland, so there’s a matter of understanding what they say when I ring them (perhaps there’s a case for outsourcing to India) 🙂 My advice though is don’t upset them!