
Originally Posted by
uni
tax is cumulative, thus each month you have another months worth of tax allowance. tax adjusts automatically as long as you aren't on a month 1 tax code, thus by month 2 if the combined gross pay is under the tax threshold for the 2 months, your tax would be reduced accordingly, or a tax rebate given. may is month 2, thus if you were on the books in june, month 3, but not paid anything, or just paid £1 or so, you would have junes tax allowance, thus 3 months tax allowance and 2 months pay, thus you would normally expect to get a tax rebate. but if you left in may and got a P45 that scenario won't happen. if you have unused holiday entitlement to be paid, you could ask that to be paid in the following month instead, but it's up to your employer if they want to do that or not, they don't have to, and will probably want to pay it all in your final pay in may or whenever you leave, so everything is done and dusted and there is less chance of overpaying you in error in the next month