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Seiss Grant 4 no work December to 13th April but now back at work
I wasn't entitled to any previous grants but I am now entitled to the 4th grant but I'm confused as to whether or not I can claim. I have zero work from 22nd December to 13th April but I am now working again full time. Am I eligible ? Below is the paragraph that is confusing me. Does the reduction in profits have to be Jan…
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SEISS effect on self employed mortgage claim
Hi there, I haven't seen any recent threads about this, and I'm struggling to hear anything back from my bank... I have claimed each of the SEISS grants available and will be claiming the most recent too, covering the end of 2020 and start of 2021. I run a small activities company and I can see the business recovering well…
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Working from home tax relief - office equipment purchases?
Hi, like many people this year I've been working from home
throughout the Covid pandemic right from the start. I'm aware of the £6 per week tax relief that
can be claimed for unreceipted expenses, ie contributing towards home heating
costs etc. However, I'm wondering
whether it is possible to claim for other related…
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Expenses Ltd company director can claim while in isolation
Hi, I have just returned from working in the Netherlands and am now isolating for 10 days at home, my question is, apart from claiming for my 2nd and 8th day PCR tests, is there anything else I claim for? Thanks, Jason
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Refused Refund - Event
Hi, I am hoping someone can give me advice. I had registered to do a charity cycling event last summer (registration fee fully paid), which was re-scheduled for this July because of Covid. I had also suggested a couple of friends join me this year. We had made travel arrangements, and I had even made my family change their…
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Local council not trying to get people to sign up for the wrong restart grant!
Hi Guys, So i run a small business from an industrial estate and have received the 10k last year, then further amounts in December and again in February... So the local council know i am on the system and that i am eligible for the restart grant... However 320 other business never received an email that apparently they…
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Furlough pay
Hi everyone, can someone help explain how the furlough pay is calculated please. i was working part time 18 hours a week during the first lockdown, so when we went on lockdown I received about 14.4 hours a week pay which by my calculations is around 80%. fast forward to when we came back from the first lockdown in July, my…
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SEISS 4 to claim or not to claim
Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind! my dilemma is that income is very much seasonal from April to October. I didn’t claim SEISS 3 as I have negligible business turnover from 1st November to 31st January. For the SEISS 4 period, 1st February to 30th April, I calculate that I have lost 12% of my annual turnover based…
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SEISS 4 - eligibility - newly self-employed plus maternity leave
I am wondering if anyone else has had problems with SEISS 4 eligibility as a working parent. I am newly self-employed (July 2019) so thought I would be eligible for SEISS 4. But because of being on maternity leave from January - September 2019, this apparently means I am not. The mat leave skewed my tax return. I have…
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PCR Testing and holiday refunds
Hi, I apologise if this has been asked before, i couldn't find anything. We had our original holiday booked last year 2020 but obviously had to cancel, however due to the fact it was a great deal and we had everything we wanted we decided to transfer to this year in the hope we would have the same deal, and, with a little…
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Hot air balloon ride booking - not vaccinated
Hey everyone, we booked to ride in a hot air balloon back in 2019 which was cancelled - they extended the booking which was great but only till Oct this year, it’s a shared balloon ride with up to 16 other people, are be not been vaccinated yet and probably won’t have both till the end of August which only gives us an 8…
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Bug in the Online Portal for CoronaVirus Job Retention scheme application for Employers
There appears to be an error in the Online portal. When
making the CoronaVirus Job Retention scheme application, I get “You are not
eligible to make a claim. The employee is registered for PAYE Online but our
records show that on 19 March 2020 there were no employees on the payroll.
Furloughed employees must have been on…
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Travel 70 miles (sharing a van with one other household) and stay overnight for recreation purposes?
A friend of mine is thinking about booking a weekend away for six of us (from six different households) soon. We would plan to travel about 70 miles on the Saturday and then do some cycling on the Saturday and running on the Sunday. I am concerned about the overnight stay. There are a few options: 1) Stay in a hotel or…
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Reclaiming working from home tax
Help I am finding it difficult using working-from- home micro service
After completing initial form I am finding it impossible after entering my Gateway ID to get this verified against my Nat Ins number, or my post code or my dob
Also it is impossible to get to speak with any one at HMRC
Any advice will be most welcome.…
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American rescue plan
Hi, I am asking this question on behalf of my mum who has recently received a cheque from the Rescue plan as she used to live and work in the USA and receives a small pension. The problem is that her bank doesn't accept foreign cheques. Apparently the IRS don't do electronic transfers..? What can we do?
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Experience day cancelled due to Covid
We purchased an experience day in May 2019, booked the day in August for following April, this was then cancelled due to Covid, we received and extension on the voucher and rebooked for November adding another 3 to the group. Again this was cancelled due to Covid. We have called now to rebook and they have said all they…
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Bringing forward a vaccination appointment
I've had a text telling me I can arrange to bring my second vaccination forward. If I go to the app and enter my details there is no option for bringing a date forward - only to cancel my current appointment. I have tried phoning 119 but keep getting the message to call back later, then I get cut off. Has anyone…
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Physio Appointment via phone call!
Covid has meant that I am STILL unable to get a hospital physio appointment other that via a phone call. How on earth can I be assessed via a phone call? I thought that in person hospital appointments were now supposed to be available?
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Expenses
Hi, Iv been working from home since the beginning. Iv recently applied for my expenses claim through the government. I work 25hrs a week. Iv noticed recently that Iv had tax taken of my wage. I don’t pay tax unless I do more hrs. Is this right? Should I not be given it back rather taken away?
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Furlough duration and the employer
Just wondered, is having an employee on furlough means tested? i.e is the employer required or likely to be asked at any point to demonstrate (such as reduced profits due to Covid) that they are unable to pay an employees wages?
