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Cutting Tax: Discussions that will help you
To help you find the Cutting Tax threads quicker and easier we're collating our previous sticky/pinned threads into one single post. Cutting Tax board: Tax instructions - please read Useful Websites TaxCalc alternative? How does the Taxman Know? Inheritance Tax Planning Useful Tools to Help With Taxes Washing Uniform at…
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Capital Gains Tax on a Split Title
Hello! I have a niche query regarding capital gains tax on a basement that I am in the process of selling. I purchased my flat for £95,000 in 2017, which included the title for the property combined with a title for the basement below. For some context, the basement is not habitable at the moment, so is only used as…
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Property Sale, CGT Due?
I am looking for some advice as I can't find the exact answer after scouring the internet! I sole purchased my property (main residence in 2008). I lived in the property until 2011 at which point I moved overseas with my company for work (the property was rented a few months later). In 2014 I returned back from my overseas…
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SDLT on remortgage
Hi, I am the sole owner of my house and I am currently re-mortgaging. My wife will now be added to the Deed. The outstanding mortgage is circa £460,000 and she owns another property. Will we/she have to pay any stamp duty or second home stamp duty? Your help would be much appreciated. A
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Adjusted net income help
Dear all I am confused on the HMRC website as to whether my pension contributions are counting to my adjusted net income. I pay 12.5% pension contributions net through PAYE. My total salary is 106.6k. I had been planning to make extra private pension contributions to bring the ANI below 100k but now I am confused as to…
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Tax allowance Frozen till 27-28
Does anyone know what will likely happen in year 2027-28? The govt have frozen the tax allowance at £12570 per year (the amount you can earn before paying any tax) This is frozen until 2027-28 By which time under normal circumstances it would have grown to circa £15,990 So what happens when the freeze ends.... Do we just…
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Reaching higher tax threshhold and best decisions
Hi. I am earning £49000 and planned to earn interest on savings to take me up to around £50270. One thing I have just come across is paying back percentage of child benefit if earning more than £50000. Why is there a difference between that threshold and the tax threshold of 50270? So I would be paying back 2% of child…
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How much am I actually saving?
Hi all, Trying to put my "clever financial planner" hat on but need a few brains to help me think through this. 😂 The question is about making rental income stretch as far as possible. I have a rental property which generates, for example let's say £1,000 a month. I receive the full gross (pretax) 1,000 each month from my…
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Self Assessment Question
Hi - hoping someone can help me please. My adjusted net income for this tax year is going to be around £120,000. Am I right in thinking that my self assessment tax bill on this amount would be £4,000? (40% tax on a £10,000 reduction of my personal allowance?). Second question is that if I paid this £4,000 into my work…
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HICBC question
Hey folks Ive been paying the HICBC for a few years now… PAYE but fill in self assesment every year. Had a question, regarding the changes announced at the budget for the 2024/25 tax year. What am I paying currently for HICBC via my tax code? How is it charged? Is the 2024/25 being charged throughout this year and then an…
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BT Employee Share Ownership Scheme 1984 to 2001 and Capital Gains Tax
I worked there for over 10 years. Between 1990 and 2000 I received some free shares each year. Each such batch was held in trust for 3 years and then transferred to me. Now I have sold them I had thought that the base cost for Capital Gains Tax would be the market value on the day they transferred into my name. This is…
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HMRC Estimates of Interest Income - Where Shown Online ? Do HMRC Have any Minimum Thresholds ?
Q1 Where can I view HMRC's estimate of the earned interest they will use for any P800 in summer for the current 23/24 tax year ? How long before it's likely to be fully updated (my pensions income doesn't yet show Mar payment) from the banks ? Q2 I could enter my estimate of total interest if required soon after the final…
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Doesnt appear to have been any tax and ni paid since started new job!
Hi Folks. There appears to have been an issue with my employer paying my tax and ni, the issie being there seems to have been none paid at all since i started! I have raised this with them this morning, but was wondering if there qere any issies with hnrc systen or sonething that could accoubt for this. TIA
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Marriage Allowance Rebate Refusal
Following the recent publicity about getting a Marriage Allowance rebate, my wife recently applied. Our understanding is that as the one who earns the least and pays less or no tax, she should be the one to apply. Our situation is quite simple. We are both retired and in receipt of State Pensions. We live in Scotland.…
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Non tax payer
My wife had to stop work in 2022 due to ill health, and is unlikely to be able to go out to work again because of her condition, she had been self employed for quite a few years and has another four years before she will get her state pension. there is a minefield ahead for her to go through the benefit system having never…
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Additional taxes on second properties / holiday Lets
wonder how long it is before both the govt and local councils realise they could make decent return by increasing taxes on additional properties, seems to be ever increasing buying more properties to rent out as a holiday let and then minimising taxes via all the loopholes currently on offer
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Claiming Business Mileage
My employer reimburses employees who drive their own cars whilst travelling for work. Currently they pay 45p per mile up to 10,000 miles per year then 25p per mile thereafter in line with HMRC guidelines. Starting in the new financial year they will only pay 25p per mile regardless of yearly total and say that the 20p per…
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March bonus -> 100k -> childcare benefits?
Hi there, My total taxable income including benefits (all paid through PAYE) is a few £k's below the 100k threshold. An unexpectedly high bonus increased my March payslip to about 102k. One main aspect worries me: childcare. I already opted out from the child benefit when I passed the 60k threshold above which this benefit…
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Uniform tax
Hi. I have just managed to claim for my uniform expenses and i did it for the last 4 years. They have said how much Ive overpaid for each year which surely means its what they owe me. Theres a £10.80 £21.55 £32.20 and £12.80 yet my letter and cheque just says that they owe me £12.80 and thats it. I dont understand where…
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New Tax code & massive deduction
Hi all just got my paycheck and found HMRC have taken out an additional £700. Compared my payslip to the previous month and the new tax code is K1565 NONCUM (the old was 1257L NONCUM). In mid August I switched jobs and went from £87k to £107k per annum. I got paid twice in that month from both employers. I visited the HRMC…
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Can I reclaim tax and NI
I recently started my first job in November 2023, prior to that I was unemployed for around 1.5 years after graduating in 2022 and received universal credit during that time. According to my P60 I received this week my tax code is 1257L M1 Pay £9647.09 Tax £880.40 NIC £462.91 Am I right in believing since it is below the…