HMRC warns 700,000 Britons are yet to claim £473 refunds as letter sent out

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HMRC warns 700,000 Britons are yet to claim £473 refunds as letter sent out.

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Almost 700,000 taxpayers across the UK are sitting on unclaimed refunds worth an average of £473 each, HM Revenue and Customs has confirmed.

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The tax authority dispatched hundreds of thousands of P800 letters earlier this summer notifying recipients of money owed to them, yet a significant number have failed to act.HMRC took to X to urge people to check whether they had overlooked the correspondence.

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Remember getting a letter about a tax refund but didn't do anything about it?"Last year, almost 700,000 people didn't claim back the money they're owed.

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Download the HMRC app to check," the department posted.Roughly four million P800 notices were expected to be sent out over the summer period, with the final batch due to land by 30 November 2025.Earlier this summer, HMRC disclosed that close to one million people had still not claimed their rebate.The P800 Tax Calculation is a document HMRC sends to anyone it believes has paid either too much or too little tax.It sets out precisely where...

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