I hope someone can help to signpost me to the next step.
I am a HSE employee since late 2012. I was put onto a new entrant salary scale when I took up employment. I should not have been classed as a new entrant, and the HSE agreed with this in 2015. They since reinstated me on the correct point of my salary scale and agreed that I was owed backpay.
The backpay- which was approx 7,000 was paid into my salary during July 2016. It was taxed at the higher rate and in addition to my salary. I paid the higher tax rate on the payment as I was promoted to a higher grade in 2016. However my salary up until now was significantly lower.
I am also on unpaid maternity leave at the moment, following 6 months of paid leave. Under normal circumstances i would have been due some rebate in my tax payment as there will be 3 months during the 2016-17 tax year that I will receive no income.
I have two queries:
1. Should the tax deductions have been made at the rate that would have been paid had I been on correct scale at the time? If so, do I contact revenue or the HSE (the HSE don't reply to any of my queries on this- it took 18 months from agreement to pay the arrears to actually paying them)
2. Am I doubly penalised as I should be receiving a rebate due to the 3 months I will receive no income, however there has been this "backpayment" from previous tax years paid this year...
Any advice on how to proceed would be very welcome.
I am a HSE employee since late 2012. I was put onto a new entrant salary scale when I took up employment. I should not have been classed as a new entrant, and the HSE agreed with this in 2015. They since reinstated me on the correct point of my salary scale and agreed that I was owed backpay.
The backpay- which was approx 7,000 was paid into my salary during July 2016. It was taxed at the higher rate and in addition to my salary. I paid the higher tax rate on the payment as I was promoted to a higher grade in 2016. However my salary up until now was significantly lower.
I am also on unpaid maternity leave at the moment, following 6 months of paid leave. Under normal circumstances i would have been due some rebate in my tax payment as there will be 3 months during the 2016-17 tax year that I will receive no income.
I have two queries:
1. Should the tax deductions have been made at the rate that would have been paid had I been on correct scale at the time? If so, do I contact revenue or the HSE (the HSE don't reply to any of my queries on this- it took 18 months from agreement to pay the arrears to actually paying them)
2. Am I doubly penalised as I should be receiving a rebate due to the 3 months I will receive no income, however there has been this "backpayment" from previous tax years paid this year...
Any advice on how to proceed would be very welcome.