srimanthudu5957 wrote:Tax Overview Documents clearly shows the total tax paid. Does that not indicate approx how much amount you have earned . So , if my tax Over view documents say I have paid tax of £7K for that year, do you guess the income was less than £10K . Use a bit of logic and you can easily say it some where between £45K simple maths . You do not need to be lucky to understand this.
No, it doesn't! It can only be used to guess your "taxable" income and not your "gross" income that you might have used to score points in a PBS application! So £7K tax may equate to £45K "taxable" income but this doesn't necessarily mean that your gross income was £45K. But a SA302 would you have your income and tax calculations in detail (including gross, taxable, and tax).
Moreover, It is not a question of logic or guess work! The caseworkers are not trained to do that. All they are trained to do is to verify whether what is declared to UKVI in previous (immigration) applications match (not be similar to, but match) what was declared to HMRC in that year or not, and whether any tax outstanding has been paid or not. Do they check tax evasion for other years? Perhaps .... but for such years the only thing a UKVI caseworker can do is check for any outstanding tax liability that HMRC records show because there isn't another set of figures to "compare with"! They cannot accuse one of deception for such years but only for the years where income has been declared to UKVI to support an immigration application and that income & tax does not match HMRC records.
Your assertions lead me to ask two questions:
1. Whether you used the income (of the year that you amended the income and tax for) to support a PBS immigration application?
2. If yes, then despite (many) people posting on the forum that the UKVI caseworkers are unable to view any amendments done post January 2015 on their systems, how come the CW in your case was able to check your amendments done in January 2016 and compare it with the tax overview documents you provided him?
