{"id":8878,"date":"2023-07-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-25631"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"emergency-tax-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency tax codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letters in an employee&rsquo;s tax code signify their entitlement (or not) to the annual tax free personal allowance. The tax codes are updated annually and help employer&rsquo;s work out how much tax to deduct from an employee&rsquo;s pay packet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The basic personal allowance for the tax year starting 6 April 2023 is &pound;12,570 and the tax code for an employee entitled to the standard tax-free Personal Allowance 1257L. This is the most common tax code and is used for most people with one job and no untaxed income, unpaid tax or taxable benefits (for example a company car).<\/p>\n<p>Emergency tax codes can be used if HMRC does not receive a taxpayer&rsquo;s income details in time after a change in circumstances such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a new job<\/li>\n<li>working for an employer after being self-employed<\/li>\n<li>getting company benefits or the State Pension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employees on an emergency tax code will see one of the following codes on their payslip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1257L W1<\/li>\n<li>1257L M1<\/li>\n<li>1257L X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These codes mean that an employee&rsquo;s tax calculation is based only on what they are paid in the current pay period. The emergency tax codes are temporary and will usually be updated once the necessary details about previous income or pension payments are sent to HMRC.<\/p>\n<div style='font-size:smaller' class='im_source'>Source: HM Revenue &#038; Customs   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letters in an employee\u2019s tax code signify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Emergency tax codes - One Accounting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The letters in an employee\u2019s tax code signify\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Emergency tax codes - One Accounting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The letters in an employee\u2019s tax code signify\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"One Accounting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-27T04:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/591a977a-274a-4618-a677-a255fd961f7d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/846d7ee0fcbd148e3fd1aa38300917d3\"},\"headline\":\"Emergency tax codes\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-27T04:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/\"},\"wordCount\":226,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/emergency-tax-codes\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/591a977a-274a-4618-a677-a255fd961f7d.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Employment &amp; 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