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Where Taxpayers and Advisers Meet

2017/2018 cheque reissue

tommyx3m
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2017/2018 cheque reissue

Postby tommyx3m » Fri Jan 17, 2020 3:46 pm

Hi.
This question is a bit complicated. My uncle lived in the UK somewhere between 2017/2018 and he realized that they sent him tax refund and cheque. He did not know that he can get his taxes money back and they sent this cheque to his old adress in Liverpool. Problem is that we can not reclaim it again because you can claim refund just for a tax year 2018/2019 online. What we need is to reissue that one year old cheque and send it to the Czech Republic. Is it possible? And how? Thank you for any help good people

Regards

maths
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Re: 2017/2018 cheque reissue

Postby maths » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:12 pm

Suggest telephoning HMRC or writing and simply explain the situation requesting a replacement cheque.

robbob
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Re: 2017/2018 cheque reissue

Postby robbob » Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:45 am

as maths says contact hmrc - their tracing unit is pretty good and will sort out the re-issue of the cheque. Lets hope some bright spark in Liverpool didn't manage to cash the cheque :)


one annoying thing with hmrc is that i have NEVER seen them credit an individuals account for an uncashed cheque unpromted - eg if cheque is lost or simply not cashed but nor returned. It's a bit of a disgrace that after the cheque has expired they don't at least credit the rightful owner with a credit on their account to flag up the fact they are still owed money by hmrc. At present one normally has to know they were sent the cheque and didn't cash it otherwise hmrc will simply pretend they sent out the funds and you cashed it unless you specifically ask for the "trace" to prove otherwise - nice way to treat customer not - if this was a company keeping known customer credits "off their account statement ledger" they would probably be breaking the law. Apologise to hmrc if they do repatriate uncashed cheque amounts (unprompted) and i have managed to miss that fact for the last 20 years or so.

D&C
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Re: 2017/2018 cheque reissue

Postby D&C » Sat Jan 18, 2020 1:26 pm

The op doesn't mention Self Assessment so if we assume that it was a PAYE refund then HMRC never themselves pay these refunds into a bank account.

Taxpayers can (sometimes) go onto their Personal Tax Account and pull the refund into their bank account but as I understand it HMRC staff are never involved in that process, it is entirely down to the individual to go onto their Personal Tax Account and stick in their bank account details.


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