If you are an employee in UK, you are entitled of the certificate called the P60. This certificate contains your summary of tax payments as well as earnings on an annual tax year basis. p60 certificates are usually released every April 5th of the current year by UK employers to their employees. As an employee, once you have secured the copy of your p60 certificate, it's your responsibility to check if your employer is deducting the right amount for your national and tax insurance contribution from your salary over the year. You can easily do this by visiting some free salary calculators available over the Internet.

In any case that your employer did not release your copy certificate of p60, it's your right to ask for it as what the UK laws implement. The p60 certificate may serve you in any legal purposes. It's a must requirement that you might need in completing a tax return that applies to you, claiming back any amount of tax that you have overpaid, applying tax credits, and as proof for your income reference in any case you are applying for a mortgage or loan. With these purposes, keeping your copy of p60 certificate is very important. For any reasons that your p60 certificate got losts, you can always ask for a duplicate copy from your employer.

Being an importan document, the p 60 certificate always come in two copies whereas the second copy is forwarded to the Department of Social and Family Affairs as proof of your paid PRSI or Pay Related Social Insurance contributions. The PRSI contributions are social contributions of an employee that provide entitlements of benefits to employees. These benefits are administered by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. With this, it is necessary to provide your PPS No. or Personal Public Service Number to your employer to ensure that your employer will be paying your social insurance contributions. Once deducted by your employer, the social insurance contributions are being collected by the Revenue Commissioners.

It's an employer's obligations to issue its employees with p 60 certificate every year. In any case that your employer cannot provide you with a copy of p60 then the employer might have failed to register you for PRSI contributions. In this case, you can always go to the local tax office for legal advise. Always remember that under the lawy of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act of 1993, all UK employers are obliged to register their employees for PRSI contributions as well as deducting the correct amount from the salaries. Failure to do so, employers will be put into prosecution, penalties or even both.

In furnishing your p 60 certificates, there are some necessities needed to be prepared by the claimants or employees in supporting their claims for the benefits of the social welfare. These necessities are required due to some reasons that might arised. Nevertheless, all p 60 certificates are forwarded to the p 60 Control Section that issues receipt containing details that have been examined and compared with the social insurance records of the claimant or employee.