Company car affects tax credits

becky004

SuziQ wrote: »

becky I am confused today and mixed up your posts and the op-so if I've annoyed you I'm sorry. Why on earth would the NHS force you to take one of their cars? Sounds bonkers balmy to me. It's been over 20 years since I was a midwife and we were offered lease cars or use our iwn back then-I preferred to keep my own car as it was already paid for,but it had to be serviced more regulalrly and the exhaust went quicker because of the short journeys. Best job in the world though-I am looking into refresher/retraining at the moment. Our local unit is constantly in the news with complaints and near misses,though they state they are fully staffed!

Unfortunately it is just another way that the NHS try to cut costs now, it is bonkers, the trust I work for it is mandatory that you take a lease or crown car once you have a permanent post. They have also for all new contracts moved the base which used to be my home, to the surgery you are employed to work from (which for me means I lose a further 12 miles a day in mileage costs. I would much rather have used my own car as I have literally lost £100's of pounds a month.
As for job hunting do a refresher course, where I live they can't cover the posts because of the stress levels! Last person resigned after 6 weeks! We are supposed to be 8 midwives but at the moment are down to 3!

SuziQ

becky004 wrote: »

Unfortunately it is just another way that the NHS try to cut costs now, it is bonkers, the trust I work for it is mandatory that you take a lease or crown car once you have a permanent post. They have also for all new contracts moved the base which used to be my home, to the surgery you are employed to work from (which for me means I lose a further 12 miles a day in mileage costs. I would much rather have used my own car as I have literally lost £100's of pounds a month.
As for job hunting do a refresher course, where I live they can't cover the posts because of the stress levels! Last person resigned after 6 weeks! We are supposed to be 8 midwives but at the moment are down to 3!

Good heavens!

I have been enquiring about the governments so called directive to get midwives back to work ie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-518231/Former-midwives-wooed-NHS-3-000-golden-hello-plug-shortage.html

I have been emailing and bothering people for 5 months about this,but the onlyanswer has been 'there will be an announcement in the summer'.
It's now the summer-I have emailed again but no reply!
There must be many people like me. The refresher course is expensive,and I have to get the local unit agree to 'mentor' me for the practical part.They are saying they are fullystaffed.
Also the childcare costs would be high,plus I have been told by my jobcentre that I would lose benefit a this type of training isn't covered in their agreement to allow you to retrain whilst being on IS. If I retrain as a bricky though it's a different story!
I will keep trying,but can see me ending up just doing some sort of assistant job out of desperation,although I couldn't even get an interview as a Health
visiting assistant as they phoned me up and said firstly was I serious,and secondly I wouldn't stay 5 minutes as I am already trained and would get bored. But I have been unable to get onto a Health Visiting refresher,and have been out of it too long to just apply to be a HV

There is a pattern here!

becky004

SuziQ wrote: »

Good heavens!

I have been enquiring about the governments so called directive to get midwives back to work ie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-518231/Former-midwives-wooed-NHS-3-000-golden-hello-plug-shortage.html

I have been emailing and bothering people for 5 months about this,but the onlyanswer has been 'there will be an announcement in the summer'.
It's now the summer-I have emailed again but no reply!
There must be many people like me. The refresher course is expensive,and I have to get the local unit agree to 'mentor' me for the practical part.They are saying they are fullystaffed.
Also the childcare costs would be high,plus I have been told by my jobcentre that I would lose benefit a this type of training isn't covered in their agreement to allow you to retrain whilst being on IS. If I retrain as a bricky though it's a different story!
I will keep trying,but can see me ending up just doing some sort of assistant job out of desperation,although I couldn't even get an interview as a Health
visiting assistant as they phoned me up and said firstly was I serious,and secondly I wouldn't stay 5 minutes as I am already trained and would get bored. But I have been unable to get onto a Health Visiting refresher,and have been out of it too long to just apply to be a HV

There is a pattern here!

The Governments words are just "lip service" designed to placate both the public and the employee's in my opinion. Circumstances are so dire in my area the Director of midwifery services is having to come and work on community in an attempt for us to work safely!

SuziQ

becky004 wrote: »

The Governments words are just "lip service" designed to placate both the public and the employee's in my opinion. Circumstances are so dire in my area the Director of midwifery services is having to come and work on community in an attempt for us to work safely!

Gosh that's unbelievable-all credit to you for carrying on when the system is clearly near to melt down-I can imagine you might be tempted to leave if a better option came up! I thought it was tight when I qualified in the 80's but that sounds like a walk in the park compared to what you girls are coping with now

Not a fat lot of job satisfaction I would imagine!

DreamerV

hmrc approves 40p per mile for the first .... miles (I think it might be 10000 but not sure)...anyhow if you get less than that for example 10p....you can take the number of miles under that figures and multiply it by the difference and deduct that from your income. But you would need to include the figure from your p11d which should already include any medical benefits from your employment.

whatdoidonow

subsoniccoyote wrote: »

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It is a benefit and you are obviously better off because you are paying around £200 p/month for a car worth £24k!
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If you had your own car how much more would it cost you?

Hi
I think you are confusing your reply to becky with my original post.

I take your point, but I still feel I am being penalised twice. my employer at the time was also paying taxes on the car. A 24k car? that was a reward for working hard why should it be considered again?? It seems the harder you work the more the government want to take off you, meantime those on benefits just whinge about needing more money..provided by us, the tax payers, it shouldnt be a case of what they cant do but more what jobs they could do. and theres plenty out there fiddling the system with few penalties when caught.

We feel so screwed by the government at the moment that I am going to return our main car on a voluntary termination ( I have paid over half but its worth a lot less than the outstanding finance) and buying a £2k run it into the ground car, meantime I am selling my car and cycling to work. I am tired of funding the system. I will leave that to other mugs.

This site has been so useful for finding savings in all areas. Now I am concentrating on getting rid of all the taxable "luxuries" that come from hard work, even my pension which is worthless and a burden, then where will they get their taxes from?

sorry to vent my anger, but I feel better now :rotfl: