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Council Tax..can they do this?
Hi Not sure if this is the right home for this but can anyone please tell us if the facility to pay the Council Tax in instalments(monthly) can be taken away from us..? Basically we pay monthly and sometimes we pay 2 or 3 weeks late(for various reasons) prompting an arrears demand.The last one stated we will lose the…
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Liability for CGT
Hi, Hope someone bright out there can assist. Wife has a property in her name (she is not on our main home mortgage) that she bought in 2002 and that my mother lived in rent free until she died recently. Now selling the property but can anyone advise whether we are liable to CGT. Bought house for approx half of market…
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Police Special tax codes?
Can someone please advise me what the tax code should be on police specials expense claims - eg petrol/travel, meals etc. My OH has been told it will be a BR code, is this correct? Is there anything he should be claiming/doing with regards to tax and claiming back off the tax man?? Hope someone can help? Leona
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Tax Code..is 195L a fair code?
My tax code has changed from 229L to 195L. My company car has been replaced but other than that I cant think of why the change has been made. I assume 195L is worse than 229L. Is it much worse? Thanks for your help. I really dont trust our tax office. Tc
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Selling Rental Property, What CGT applies?
Firstly hello to all, i have just joined this forum. I'm considering selling my rental property of which i purchased back in July 03, I lived in this property for 2 years and have been renting it out to tennants for the last two years. Once they moved into this property, i purchased another property and have been living…
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Taxing a bonus payment
Hi, anyone help. I received a nice bonus last month (10K) and was taxed a lot more than my normal 22%. This was a one off bonus, and I wondering how the money I am owed will be paid to me, will I receive the money in dribs & drabs over this financial year or will it be resolved in my next pay packet.
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My Car and Business Usage
I was just searching around the CAB site and they mention the following I came out of the company car scheme in October and have bought a car financed via a personal loan, do I qualify for this tax relief and if so how do I claim it back? Via my SA or via another method? :confused: Thanks
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tax
just got my p60, is there anyway i can check if im in the correct tax bracket?
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Self employed and employed how much tax would I pay?
Does anyone know: If you work as an employee for 36 hours a week and pay basic rate tax, NI contributions, pension but also do self employed work say 10 hours a week, would the self employed work be liable for 40% tax as a second job. Also would the NI contributions paid on the first job cover the second job as well or…
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Rent Or Sell??
We live in a house worth £220K which has £24K outstanding on the mortgage and needs a lot of work done on it, but we never have the cash available to do it. I also own a house worth £100K which my mum is currently living in at 5p per year rent. My mums health is failing and she will soon be moving into shelterered…
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Car Tax
Hi guys I pay, and have done for some time, car tax for a fully exspensed BMW 318 Coupe. It costs me around £37 a week, including the fuel cost – which is great… My employer has offered to buy me a second hand BMW M3, which is fantastic, only my tax will rise from £37 to nearer £97 per week. This is due to the emissions…
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Where is my Tax office ?
Nothing about cutting tax, ut I need to send a form to complete to confirm i am a UK resident to my French bank. How do I know where to send this form ?? Thank you
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Buying a commercial vehicle through LTD company
I need a van/pickup for work. I will use it in addition to my own personal car. I just asked my accountant if it could be bought through company and he replied by email with: You can purchase the van from the business but is it worth due to costs involved, ie the tax relief is 20% so any costs in relation to a van will…
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Council Tax And Interest
Last week my valuation office confirmed that I have been in the wrong banding bracket and are now going through the motions of having it corrected and working out how much they have to give back having over charged since it started in 1993!! I have put it to the council that as a tax and with any other tax overpayment,…
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Council Tax and being a student
Hello all, I have just finished my three long years at University. I live with my boyfriend and we are band D council tax with 25% exemption as I am a student. As I have finished Uni now does anyone know when we will lose the exemption? It is soon or August after lots of people have done re-takes? Does anyone also know how…
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Claiming tax back on meals
Just wondering if a voluntary senior citizens/luncheon club can claim any tax back on meals ordered in? Cath
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calculating take home pay
I am currently on maternity leave and am considering going back part time. I'm trying to work out how much money I'll have. My salary will be £31,000 and my pension contributions are 6.4%, I'm also considering child care vouchers under salary sacrifice scheme. In order to calculate take home pay I take it I deduct the…
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Tax repayment - HELP!!
Here goes... I was a student until June 2006 and worked a couple of shifts which I was taxed for then I went travelling for a few months then came back and claimed jobseekers allowance for approx 3 months then started work and earnt about £6000 till end of 2006/7 tax year. SO for the whole tax year I paid about £950 in…
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Gift Aid
say I earn about £18000 a year. How much of it can I give as gift aid to a charity? I always thought it would be around £2500 which is the tax I would pay as a basic rate tax payer. However with the charity getting 22p in the £ I am not sure I am right.???
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Worried! Help me please!
Hello everyone, I'm in the process of trying to claim a tax refund, as due to having casual work with various employment agencies and finding myself on BR codes, I have overpaid around £500 in tax in the last tax year. However, I have also done some work which is cash in hand (private tutoring which is organised by someone…