Student tax

Helping students get tax refunds

Tax doctor knows there are plenty of myths and rumours around universities and colleges that students don't pay tax; unfortunately they're not true. As a student you're liable to pay tax the same as everybody else. What often happens though is that you end up paying too much.

This can happen for a number of reasons; perhaps you have been put on the wrong tax code by your employers or maybe you've only worked part of a tax year and haven't had all your tax allowances. If this happens then you need to join the other students and get a tax refund! To see if you're due some tax back use our free student tax refund calculator.

How to get a student tax refund

HMRC aren't just going to give the overpaid tax back automatically. You need to make a claim for it. You have two main options for doing this, you can do it yourself or you can use our student tax refund service and for a small fee (starting at just 7.5% of any refund obtained, find out more about our charges) Tax doctor can take care of it for you.