The Lemon Fool

Just an informative note
My online P55 form for a tax refund took from 13th May to 12th July this year
I wrote to HMRC on 26th June to query delay
Usually takes 1 month
Covid?
xxd09

I've had the experience of submitting P55 forms online on 3 occasions in the past year or so....

Last June it took 3 weeks for the tax to be refunded into my account.
My wife's submission in the September took 8 days. I thought that was amazing!!

However, I submitted my next one 28.4.21 and received the refund 2.7.21

NegevSouth wrote:I've had the experience of submitting P55 forms online on 3 occasions in the past year or so....

Last June it took 3 weeks for the tax to be refunded into my account.
My wife's submission in the September took 8 days. I thought that was amazing!!

However, I submitted my next one 28.4.21 and received the refund 2.7.21

My wife's was similar, 15/06 to 19/08, just over 2 months.

Scott.

Better service from HMRC this year. Just under 4 weeks from submitting online P55 to receiving tax refund in bank account.

Scott.

swill453 wrote:Better service from HMRC this year. Just under 4 weeks from submitting online P55 to receiving tax refund in bank account.

Scott.

Yes me too, I received mine today.

Info
My P55 payment came in after 6 weeks -longest time I’ve seen yet!
xxd09

Sadly not true!
I confused a state pension payment wit the expected tax return-similar amounts
18th July promised
Have only processed claims up to 5th May-mine sent in on 23rd!!
xxd09

Update
Had a phone call with them
Now to expect refund by 23 August!
Submitted 23 May!
Times are tough at HMRC!
xxd09

Daft question but that’s where I am. The P55 I’ve found on gov.Uk asks questions under a title of 2022/2023. But I’m guessing you are all talking about getting refunds in respect of tax deductions in 2021/2022. Does one claim the prior year overpaid tax annually in April/May? Thanks in anticipation.

2022/2023 for me
ie withdrawals from SIPP after April 5th 2022
xxd09

Mainwaring wrote:Daft question but that’s where I am. The P55 I’ve found on gov.Uk asks questions under a title of 2022/2023. But I’m guessing you are all talking about getting refunds in respect of tax deductions in 2021/2022. Does one claim the prior year overpaid tax annually in April/May? Thanks in anticipation.

It's for the current tax year. For example if you make a big SIPP drawdown early on, you'll get over-taxed. If you tell them via the P55 that you're not going to have any more income this tax year, they give you it back straight away (well within a few weeks anyway).

Scott.

Don’t count on early receipt of overpaid tax
This years refund still not paid to me -will take 3 months at least!
xxd09

Seems in April they were managing to turn it around in 4 weeks, but by May that had more than doubled.

(I reported a 4 week response above, that was actually for my wife in April. My own one went in on 31st May and not paid yet.)

Scott.

Finally got my P55 HMRC SIPP refund
Sent in online on 23 May 2022
Received on 23 August 2022
Made 2 phone calls during this time -polite staff-overwhelmed-second call promised 23 August settlement and so it was!
1 letter of enquiry sent during this time-no reply reviewed yet
Tough times!
xxd09

xxd09 wrote:Finally got my P55 HMRC SIPP refund
Sent in online on 23 May 2022
Received on 23 August 2022
Made 2 phone calls during this time -polite staff-overwhelmed-second call promised 23 August settlement and so it was!
1 letter of enquiry sent during this time-no reply reviewed yet
Tough times!
xxd09

Likewise, sent online application on 2 July, tracking on the website suggested settlement on the 23rd! Spoke to them yesterday now promising the 8th September! This is getting unreliable so I may in future just wait to do self assessment so I'm not short of a few grand that is planned to arrive.

airbus330 wrote:

xxd09 wrote:Finally got my P55 HMRC SIPP refund
Sent in online on 23 May 2022
Received on 23 August 2022
Made 2 phone calls during this time -polite staff-overwhelmed-second call promised 23 August settlement and so it was!
1 letter of enquiry sent during this time-no reply reviewed yet
Tough times!
xxd09

Likewise, sent online application on 2 July, tracking on the website suggested settlement on the 23rd! Spoke to them yesterday now promising the 8th September! This is getting unreliable so I may in future just wait to do self assessment so I'm not short of a few grand that is planned to arrive.

Still not got mine after submission on 1st June. Phoned 3 times, the first 2 calls assured me they would escalate it and deal with it straight away.

Latest call said it still hasn't been looked at and there is a large backlog and they've stopped giving out estimates of when it will be dealt with. Other than waiting, the only option is to raise a complaint.

Scott.

I wondered if anybody has updates on what's happening with P55 tax refunds?

I replied to this thread back in summer '21 mentioning two of mine took 8 days & 3 weeks respectively to receive the tax refund from HRMC.

My latest P55 was sent 28.7.22. Looking at some of the recent replies here, seems like there's still quite a wait.

NegevSouth wrote:I wondered if anybody has updates on what's happening with P55 tax refunds?

I replied to this thread back in summer '21 mentioning two of mine took 8 days & 3 weeks respectively to receive the tax refund from HRMC.

My latest P55 was sent 28.7.22. Looking at some of the recent replies here, seems like there's still quite a wait.

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Still waiting for my refund from online P55 submitted 01/06/22

Scott.

swill453 wrote:[Redundant part deleted.]

Still waiting for my refund from online P55 submitted 01/06/22

Scott.

I sent mine off in early May and within a week I received my calculations and payment. Maybe the department had a change of personnel? I don't know but you should have received it by now.

What's the best way of chasing it up?
Is there a delegated telephone number to a specific department that would handle these matters?
Alternatively, is there a web chat or an email address I could use?