ILR and PAYE Tax Discrepancy

Hiya. In December 2023, I finally get to apply for ILR. I (will) have 2.5 years on tier 2 and 2.5 years on Global Talent (Promise) visa. During the pandemic I lost my job, got the global talent visa, and was able to get a temp contractor job. Then in fall of 2021 I was finally able to secure a full time job again. However, the new job was a start up and didn't know what they were doing. I had worked in September for the old job and the new job, and both took tax allowance out of my PAYE pay. This resulted in May (by which time I was leaving the new company for other incompetence) in a bill of over £500 of unpaid tax. I paid as soon as I could, and the bill was settled 3 days after issued.

However, I want to know if this will be used against me for ILR? I have heard unpaid tax causing problems before, but was unsure whether that was self-assessment vs PAYE?

Understand there may not be answer, but appreciate any experiences.

This has nothing to do with your ILR.

I mean there are numerous cases on file of the Home Office using tax discrepancies from HMRC to refuse ILR under Paragraph 322 (5) or 322(2), and 19(i),19(j) of Appendix A. So unless something changed, I don't think it's fair to say it has nothing to do with ILR.

gooobiword wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:37 am

I mean there are numerous cases on file of the Home Office using tax discrepancies from HMRC to refuse ILR under Paragraph 322 (5) or 322(2), and 19(i),19(j) of Appendix A. So unless something changed, I don't think it's fair to say it has nothing to do with ILR.

This is a ONLY relevant to the old Tier 1 general visa route where income claimed to ukvi was inflated to meet visa requirements and hmrc differed to a lower rate to reduce tax liability. It has nothing to do with your visa route or your tax.

gooobiword wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:37 am

I mean there are numerous cases on file of the Home Office using tax discrepancies from HMRC to refuse ILR under Paragraph 322 (5) or 322(2), and 19(i),19(j) of Appendix A. So unless something changed, I don't think it's fair to say it has nothing to do with ILR.

As Char pointed out, those old Tier 1 General applicants were being refused as many allegedly declared inflated income figures on their tax returns to meet the requirement for Tier 1 General visa extension. Then they amended their tax returns after getting their visa, to avoid paying taxes for those falsely inflated declared figures. They got caught during the ILR stage and refused.

The issue wasn't the tax amendment itself but the allegedly fraudulent purpose for those amendments, in order to secure a visa. In general, tax amendments or adjustments are common (e.g via PAYE tax codes) and lawful and have no effect on the outcome of a visa application