Annual Tax Rebate Questions
Follow the steps to Claim Your Tax Back For a Year. We will submit your claim to HMRC for a full rebate.
We can also change your Tax Banding to Zero so you will no longer pay tax on your seafarers earnings
Once submitted, and confirmed, pay-out is usually two weeks, but we are requested not to contact HMRC until four weeks have passed.
See example letter from HMRC:
No, you cannot start a full rebate claim until you have reached the minimum qualifying period of 365 days. But you can apply for a Zero Tax Band if you have a 12 month contract of employment. Follow the steps to Get Your Tax Back Every Month and submit Forecast Form on our portal
Yes. Follow the steps to get your tax back every month and submit the forecast form through our portal. You must have a twelve month employment contract to submit the forecast form.
We will submit your application to HMRC who will issue a zero tax banding to you employer, which orders them not to deduct income tax from your pay each month. We can also recover any tax you have paid up to the date you have your Tax banding changed.
Yes. We can submit a tax return for you at the end of the year and recover any tax previously paid.
Yes. We can go back three years for a Seafarers Tax Rebate.
No.
Yes
if your earnings as a seafarer are liable to UK Income Tax and you are:
• resident for tax purposes in a European Economic Area (EEA) State and
• not ordinarily resident in the UK
you can claim SED.
Contact us at admin@cfarertax.com
Changing Your Tax Banding Questions
Yes. Follow the steps to get your tax back every month and submit the forecast form through our portal. You must have a twelve month employment contract to submit the forecast form.
We will submit your application to HMRC who will issue a zero tax banding to you employer, which orders them not to deduct income tax from your pay each month. We can also recover any tax you have paid up to the date you have your Tax banding changed.
Follow the steps to change your Tax Banding to Zero and submit the forecast form through our portal. You must have a twelve month employment contract to submit the forecast form.
We will submit your application to HMRC who will issue a zero tax banding to you employer, which orders them not to deduct income tax from your pay each month.
About six weeks. HMRC require that we do not contact them until four weeks have expired.
For as long you remain with the same employer.
Follow the same steps as before to change your Tax Banding to Zero. We will submit your application to HMRC who will issue a zero tax banding to your new employer, which orders them not to deduct income tax from your pay each month.
Yes. We can submit a tax return for you at the end of the year and recover any tax previously paid.
Contact us at admin@cfarertax.com for guidance on self employment.
Yes. You are entitled to earn £12570 before you have to pay tax. This is called your ‘allowance’. If your ‘casual’ earnings in the UK do not exceed this allowance, we can claim a rebate for you in an annual tax return.
Yes, if they can be considered your employer. They will need to provide you with a payslip or P60
showing an employers reference number.
If it is a new position and you have less than three rotations, or none at all, follow the steps to get your tax back every month and submit the forecast form through our portal. You must have a twelve month employment contract with the agency or six months sea time to submit the forecast form.
If you don’t have a contract of employment for twelve months but have reached the qualifying
period of working outside of the UK for 182.5 days out of 365 follow the steps to Claim Your Tax
Back for The Year.
No.
You can apply for a Zero Tax Band at any time if you have a 12 month contract of employment.
Follow the steps to ‘Get your tax back every month’ and submit the Forecast Form on our portal.
Your employer will deduct tax from your pay for the six week period, and the your home leave period after that. Once you return to overseas work, your Zero Tax Banding will instantly revert. At the end of the tax year, we can recover any UK tax paid by utilising your personal allowance.
Provided the information you have entered is accurate and true, we will continue to act on your behalf to obtain the Tax Banding change.
Your fee will cover three attempts of one application.
Yes. The Zero Tax Banding only applies to one employer at a time.
Sometimes your circumstances at work can change and you may find yourself working in the UK for a few weeks of the year. This will affect the numbers of days spent outside of the UK, and subsequently affect the qualifying period required of ‘half of 365 days’.
With Zero Tax Banding, you only pay tax for the period you are working in the UK.
Once you return overseas, you will revert to not paying tax each month.
You do not lose your zero tax banding status.
At the end of the tax year we submit an annual claim to recover the tax you have paid, utilising your personal allowance
Yes. Please contact us at admin@cfarertax.com