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Overpayment of Tax and Job Seekers Allowance
Hi everyone. I am owed £1,100 in tax from the Tax year 2007/2008 whilst I was working on a student placement I was on emergancy tax for the full year without realising. I was made redundant 2 weeks ago and I am looking to claim the figure back to use for driving lessons now I have the free time to do it. I have started a…
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Tax situation while living abroad
Hi everyone, My wife and I moved to Dubai last year and rent our house out in England. We had rented it to friends who have now left and a letting agent rents it out for us. We intend to move back to the UK within the next few years and are curious to know what the taxation implications are for us. We also send back money…
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Tax on Savings etc
I have always been employed by the same employer and never had to do any sort of tax return, or have any communication with the inland revenue. My employer does it all. I am considering setting up a small business and have been browsing the revenue website and the self assesment form. This mentions income from savings and…
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Car mileage tax!
..have just started a new job, with pay around 20K they have me on their Casual milege rate of either: 40p a mile which is NOT taxed.. or 60.5p which i will have to declare to the taxman at the end of the year.. if i am doing around 2500 miles a year which is best for me? i drive a 1.6 petrol! any help appreiciated!!
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Declaration of rental income
Hi, I bought a property around 9 years ago with an ex-girlfriend. When we broke up about a year and a half later, I moved back in with the parents and rented the property out and have done ever since. However, the problem is . . . I have never declared any tax on the property. It never really bothered me in the past as I…
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Paying a previous tenants council tax.
Hello, Be gentle with me, I'm new! I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this but it seemed the most appropriate. I moved into my house nearly a year ago now but after I had been here about 3 months I faced a bill for about £500 for a previous tenants council tax. I had already informed them that I lived here…
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Tax on earnings with a pension too!
Hi all - I am 65 in March 2010 and the company has just commenced the 'retirement' procedure - we're a small team and I will be working on 'indefinitely' as agreed with the company. I've been taking my pittance of a govenment pension £69 pr wk since I was 60 but am well aware that I am paying tax over the odds as my salary…
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BBC unbiased?
I think the BBC News 10.00pm last night was a deliberate attempt to create sympathy towards the "poorly paid" public sector workers. They interviewed a paramedic who was "concerned" that pay may be frozen in the public sector and he only earned £25,000 a year. This immediately sounded alarm bells as that is the BASIC…
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Tax rebate - help how to complain please
Can anyone help here. My nephew is 19 and back in january this year he was effectively made redundant from his apprenticeship in carpentry. He had been working for 9 months and the employer had taken the full amount of tax off him. He had to register as self employed in order to claim his tax back. As it was his first tax…
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K160 Tax Code
Hi, I am currently earning £25k per annun and have been on a K160 tax code and not sure why to be honest, i have spoke to the tax office and they are changing my tax code to 435T, never heard of this tax code either. I started my new job in Jan 09 on tax code (K160) and they have changed it to (435T) starting from 01 Sept…
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adding husbands name for capital tax relief
hi, I am about to sell a buy-to -let I have owned in my own name since 2002, Can I add my husbands name to the deeds to double the capital gains tax allowance, If so what complications may there be, other than obvious solicitors fees, and If I can when is latest I can do it as hIP being done today.
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Mum's council tax demand
Hi My mum called me over the weekend in a panic due to the council tax department's statement that she owes around £1500 from the old house seven years ago before my parents split up. After the slpit, my dad was ill and couldn't pay anything so my mum paid all the debt (one of the reasons for the split) off. She has just…
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Aia
I'm thinking of setting up as sole trader. I need to buy some sound equipment in order to ply trade. Can I offset cost of equipment against profits under AIA? If I buy second hand (eg on EBay) would that disqualify claim (ie new buy only)? Thanks
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Council Tax- is it unlawful?
I found this website which some of you may find interesting... nocounciltax.com/?p=71 Basically, if you read it through, you discover there is no legal obligation to pay council tax. All the letters/correspondence is there in black and white to prove it. Also, if you read the comments at the bottom, it looks like very…
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Income Tax rebate - "Fiscal drag?"
Every year (around about May) I check what I have paid in Tax (for the previous year) against my tax code for that year. Every year I'm in credit and I immediately bang off a letter to the taxman asking for a rebate. I can't complain as they are usually prompt in replying and settling up... Until this year. I sent of my…
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Council tax rebanding & square footage
Hi, I am trying to get my council tax band reduced. I live in a two bedroom property on a very nice street, and am currently in band E. I phoned the valuation people today, and gave them examples of two bedroom properties on the same street that were in a lower band (sometimes band B & C), and also one four bedroom…
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Council tax, my mum has missed step dad off
Hello Odd question this one but I really need to find out what the consequences of my mum's actions could be. Mum remarried in 2005 and my step dad sold his house about 6 weeks later and moved into hers. She had been on her own in the house since 2001 and was paying 25% less on the bill for single occupancy. Mum has 'let…
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Council tax rebanding do I stand a chance?
Hi just a query. My house (and estate) was built in 1989 and had a coucil tax band of D as do all my neighbours despite the fact that some are 3 beds and some are 4 and are all of different sizes and different size plots of land. I have lived here since it was built as it is ex council stock and was purchased under the…
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Taxcode - BR
While I was working at my last job at Fujitsu Services, I noticed that I was getting less pay than my other collegue who did exactly the same job as me. I found out that this was because the tax office had put me on the wrong tax code (BR). I was getting £7.50 an hour where it was £14,625 a year. I have just used the tax…
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Income Tax confusion
Hi, I'm a newbie to this. I am somewhat confused about my tax, how much I have paid and how much I should be paying. I had the wrong tax code last year of K277 in which I was paying for private fuel when I wasn't receiving any, so paid £3380 too much tax. To me I should get the £3380 back, but instead will only get approx…
