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Ctreview.co.uk
Today my 77year old Nan received a call from these people claiming that she had overpaid her council tax by £1400, they could deal with her claim for a fee of £165 plus 25% of what she could claim back. They offered to handle everything for her and said if she had a computer she could check out their website, she said she…
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Tax on shares
Hi I have been allocated shares by my company that I am now able to sell I will pay tax in the US as they are an American company will I then have to pay uk tax too as income
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council tax help
council tax is driven me :mad: am in arrears with them and i do pay them every month £175. plus this year.s tax at £117 . that works out at £292 a month . every month thay call and ask me if i can up my pay ment its driven me :mad: i have called them a hundred times i cant pay anymore thats my limet but no one.s is…
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Council Tax Nightmare
Hi Ive been having a problem with LCC for nearly 8 years now! It all started when I lived in a house that had been converted into 4 flats. Long story short; most of us moved out, owner went bust. I moved into my new property in 2004 and paid all my bills/council tax etc Then around 2005/6 I got a bill from a bailiff asking…
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CGT on property for UK citizen residing overseas
Hello I have an enquiry regarding my liability to capital gains tax for a residential property I am currently letting out. At the moment, both my wife and I are domiciled in Cyprus, although we are UK citizens, and we both own residential property in the UK. (My wife is subject to UK income tax on her earnings, whereas I…
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Selling a new build property
Hi, My parents have just had a property built in their grounds as a separate dwelling and we are planning on renting it out, however there has been a lot of local interest by people asking when is it going on the market i.e. to sell. Is there anyway round the capital gains tax by them signing it over instead to me and my…
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reclaiming tax from old job
sorry if this seems silly or in wrong forum but i have no experience in doing any of this until now ... i found out i was owed around 400 pounds tax from a job i done from January 2007 - January 2009 but never reclaimed it. does anyone know where i stand, am i screwed for getting it back?? I have p45 details etc from that…
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Student Tax NT Code
Hi all, Getting very mixed answers from the tax office and any advice would be appreciated! I filled out a P46 on starting a temporary summer job giving me a 747L Tax Code. I was then told by the tax office to send them a P38 so they could change my tax code to NT so I am not taxed during my temp contract. I called up…
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Travel Against Tax
Hi there :) I'm do a mixture of freelance (self-employed) and contract work (PAYE). I have taken on a short contract (1 week), which I will be paid for as a casual employee on PAYE. The company I am working for is based in Manchester. The work I am carrying out is on a location in London. My travel expenses on this job are…
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Mileage & Fuel Tax Relief
Hi there everyone, I've been googling this for over an hour and although I have found the info I need, I still have a few unanswered questions!! The threads on this forum that google directed me to were a few years old, I apologise if there is an updated thread but I'm new to this site and don't quite know my way around it…
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Self assessment allowances/expenses. Claiming travel costs
First time self assessment tax return I am trying to work out what allowances/expenses I am allowed to claim for my tax return year 10/11. I was self employed last year for 5 months. During this time I worked freelance of an Architectural practice in central London which I commuted by car/train and bike to each day I was…
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Cis (again!)
I have two businesses that I am required to pay CIS for, which is a pain enough in itself, but when I first started paying CIS for the second business, I rang to specifically ask whether I needed to verify everyone again as it was generally the same contractors used. I was told 'no' I didnt have to verifiy again. I have…
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Council tax shakedown
Hi everyone, I am looking for some advice. I moved into a property in December last year. I received the standard council tax request for payment shortly after. As I am a full time student I am not required to pay this bill t all. In February I got around to sending a scanned copy from my University of my council tax…
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Tax Code adjusted late in the tax year
A relative of mine had 2 part time jobs in the 2009-10 tax year. For one employer HMRC applied a tax code of 647L and for the 2nd job the tax code was BR But, on 27 Jan 2010 HMRC changed the tax codes to 130L and 517T respectively. The 2nd employer refunded all the tax that had already been paid since the total income on…
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extra work above salary. How do I deal with this?
Hello I am on paye with current fupl time job. Earning arond 30k/annum. I will shortly be recieving a lump sum paymentn into my account which is around 1.5k from an international source. This is due to some work that i have been doing. Effectively i am thinking it similar to people who have a full time job and earn rent…
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Wrong tax code?
I will be taking this up with my manager, but just wondered if anyone could give any advise... I just noticed that my May payslip shows the same tax code as my April one - shouldn't it have gone up? Also, the tax code is 612L which, having looked on the HMRC website doesn't seem to match with any personal allowance, this…
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Has my OH now paid too much ???
My OH has now received both P60s for 2010/11 (he has two employers), he uses all his allowances on his primary employer, last year the code was 590L, then his second employer uses the code D0. His total earnings from his primary employer was £40800, yet he paid 40% of everything he earned from employer number 2. I have…
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Gifts to siblings
Is it still the case in the UK that you can give cash to a sibling without any tax implication?
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Fuel Card - Claiming Tax??
Hi Room, I have been using a Fuel card to pay for my business and Private miles for the last 3 years, in 2008 I did speak to the tax office about claiming some Tax back for my business miles but I received some bad advice from the Tax helpline and they said there was nothing I could claim. For the past 3 years I have been…
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when do i need to self assess?
If i start renting out a property i am about to inherit, i will have to self assess and apy tax on my net rent income. But exactly when do i need to file a return and what dates affect me for the first and second payment on account? All the indo i find doesnt mention my situation. thanks
