RECOVERY OF TAX FROM TRUST PAYMENT
Along with the many other beneficiaries of the trust payout, I applied for recovery of tax from the Employers NI payment in my 2012-13 tax return. However, I seem to have hit a brick wall on this and I wonder if any retired or still employed trust beneficiaries might be able to help. HMRC sent my tax return claim to the NI section of HMRC in Newcastle , believing it to be an NI rather than a tax matter. From there nothing happened for months until I began to enquire, only to find that an investigation was underway between HMRC (NI ) and Halcrow on the matter of whether the employee should have been required to make the employers NI payment in the first place. I was also informed that the investigation had been underway for 9 months and had stalled because no communications had been received from Halcrow.
Consequently, I have been redirected to HMRC ( Tax ) which is where I began many months ago.
I am aware that many beneficiaries received their refunds. I wonder if anyone knows how many people were successful and if anyone is in the situation I am in. As for the matter of the rights and wrongs of employees paying the employers NI, I can’t think where this investigation will lead because if it is concluded that the employee should not have paid, are we going to receive the full NI back and who will refund it ?