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Overdraft interest BIK due to late wage payment
Hi, My employer has paid our salaries in varying degrees of lateness for around 4 of the past 6 months. Varying between 1 day & 12 days (!). Aside from any warnings about the stability of such an employer (I'm working on making this 'not my problem' anymore :D ), it's meaning all my DDs go out after pay day but before I…
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Can I save tax like this when made redundant?
Can you wave your notice period and take the sum tax free in your redundancy package? I have been selected for redundancy and was wondering if I can agree with my company a 2 stage process to try and minimize tax. 1. Agree to terminate my contract and waive the notice period in my contract. 2. Agree to a redundancy package…
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Tax when working abroad
Hi Hope someone can give me some advice. My husband has gone to Afghanistan for a year to work. He left at the end of May and will return end May next year. He was told by the company (NATO) that it will be tax free as he is away for a year but i now have a feeling because it is not a financial year we will have to pay…
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new job - Car
Hi Guys, I have recently started a new job and need a bit of advice in regards to a car. My previous job had a company car and a fuel card for all my personal fuel too. The boss has said I could take out a contract hire car and still claim back the 25p per mile, he would pay the contract hire into my bank as a car…
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Renting Out my Flat - Mortgage Consent Questions - Help Plz
Wrong Forum - Moderators please remove. Sorry
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Fuel Tax Benefit
I've just received my P11D for 2009/10. I have a company car, which was available from 02/06/09 through to the end of the tax year. In that period the Car Fuel Benefit Charge was £2852.00 (using the HMRC calculator). Revising this to show what the benefit would have been for the full year would give a CFBC of £3380. I did…
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Newly Self Employed... some possibly dumb questions!! Please help!!
Hi My husband was recently made redundant, he was offered a new position with a company but on a self employed basis. He works in construction. We need an accountant so we are looking in to that, in the mean time im doing his books. Im getting receipts for everything and listing them down but do I need to show the VAT…
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Council Tax and Moving House
I seem to keep getting different answers about this from both two different councils and my landlord etc so here goes! Due to unforseen circumstances I am leaving my current tenancy early (ends Sept 1st 2010) and moving in with my boyfriend this month (we sign the agreement on 10th July). Boyfriend will be moving in to the…
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Refund On Golf Club Membership!!!
Hi, Hope someone can shed some light on this for me. I'm a self employed builder, and while going through my returns with my accountant the other day he informed me that I am entitled to claim back 25% of any sports membership fees I pay (as my job requires me to stay fit) including Golf membership fees. As much as I'd…
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council tax from 3 years ago
Hi, I hope someone can give me some much needed advice. This morning I received an email from Hounslow council, about an amount of £127 council tax arrears, for a period from 2006 to 2007. Some backstory - I lived in a flat with 2 other people for that period, we all parted happily; me to move in with some friends, them to…
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tax rebate - 2 jobs
hi during 09/10 I had two jobs (not at the same time). I earnt £4400 in total from both jobs and have paid £300 in tax. My tax code was 647L. By my reckoning I shouldn't have paid tax at all, am I correct? If I can claim the tax back which tax office do I write to, the 1st employers or my present employers? also, in my 1st…
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P11d questions
Very confused with this as i've never had one before. I recieved approx £2000 towards mileage but on my P11d it shows approx £600. Which figure do I need to tell the tax credits about? and why that one? Would the higher or lower figure be used to calculate council tax (hope the lower as its only repaying what i've paid out…
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Taxed for a work bonus - can't claim it back, help please
Hi all, Ok, so I was working over the summer last year until October and I should have received a work bonus of £300 but I didn't. I was taxed for £60. I've got evidence that I was taxed, from a payslip and a P form, maybe P45 or P60? Anyway, naturally I called the HMRC about this and was told to fill out a tax rebate form…
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Taxed for a work bonus - can't claim it back, help please
Hi all, Ok, so I was working over the summer last year until October and I should have received a work bonus of £300 but I didn't. I was taxed for £60. I've got evidence that I was taxed, from a payslip and a P form, maybe P45 or P60? Anyway, naturally I called the HMRC about this and was told to fill out a tax rebate form…
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Taxman has it wrong (I think!)
OK so I posted on here a while back thinking I might be entitled a refund but then realising my P60 gave me my total earnt after deduction of NI. I had another job whereby I didn't pay tax so I owed the taxman money. However these are the numbers: Job 1 Income: £501.36 Tax Paid: £0.00 Job 2 NI: 1037.02 Net Taxable Income:…
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Corporate uniform laundery expenses
I have recently been told that I can backdate a claim for laundery costs for my bank uniform. Having read (or tried to understand) the gov.uk site on this I am beginning to think that I cant make a claim as the uniform was provided by the Bank. I am talking past tense as I took early retirement August last year - hoorah!!!…
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How much tax should I pay?
Hi. Im new here and really need some advice. I started workign for a freind who is a self employed Painter and Decorator. He asked me for my CIS number and instructed me he will be paying tax etc on my behalf deducted from my gross wages. He's been paying me on average about £90 per week for a full working week which is…
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help please with business miles
From June the 1st we had our fuel cards taken off us. Since then we have been forced to pay our own fuel and claim back the money through expenses. Now I was allways under the impression that if i were to carry out a bussiness appointment on the way to and on the way home from the office then I would be ok. I have…
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Own Car - not paid for business miles
Hi I am a higher rate tax payer and I am required to use my own car for business mileage - not something I agreed to, but it comes with my last promotion (previously I did no business mileage). My question is; I live 45 miles from my "permanent" place of work and my employer requires that I deduct 90 miles (ie the round…
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Tax Refund on Airline Flights
I'm not sure if I am posting this in the correct area, but I need advice on reclaiming back business airfares from HMRC. My Company has a position in Netherlands for which they are willing to pay for mileage & airfares once a month. I will be working 4 or 5 days a week there, and returning to the UK for the weekend. Would…
