Why is my friend only entitled to £16 a week tax cred??

Loopy_Girl

missk_ensington wrote: »

Doing up houses, I hope you're not all thinking I did anything manual? The closest I got was stripping a panel of wallpaper and I only did that the once. It not exactly hard phoning workmen, getting quotes, hiring them and then paying them when the works all done!


No but I am very impressed you are managing to be Sarah Beenie when you don't have an icome aside from tax credits and benefits. I take it you declare the interst on the profit to the tax credit folk?:T

Skate, well I just fit it in 1 or 2 evenings a week when my sons visiting the in laws, or sometimes not aty all if Im busy, or squash it in for an hour in between meetings. Its my equivalent to you lot maybe doing Yoga/Aerobics/Gym...

I thought you shoved him in a nursery for 8 hours a day (and worked for 4) for your 'me time' since he gives you a migraine after an hour and you don't really like children anyway? That's not very nice eh? Probably the reason the you went through au pairs like no one's business:rotfl: :rotfl:

You really are digging holes here and it is very chortlesome. Please do refer your 'chum' (*voices in head that keep you company*) and if she is genuine then we will endeavour to help her;)

missk_ensington

dmg24 wrote: »

You are so funny, you really have brightened up my day!

Just to remind you again, you do not have a 2.1 ... you do not have a degree.

You still have not said which university you are at?

No technically I dont have a degree, but the only thing that can change that grade is an examiner deciding my dissertation is only worth 58 and not 64. It is feasible for it to drop 1 or 2 marks, but not 6. I have sat 12 exams over 3 years, and 12 essays and the marks for those have already been validated, so I doubt my mark is going to go down from a 2.1, especially as it isn't anywhere near the border

I am not saying which uni, as knowing some of you on here you'd probably write to the English Department sending hate mail on my behalf or something, but it is now in top 10 Universities in the UK.

missk_ensington

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

You really are digging holes here and it is very chortlesome. Please do refer your 'chum' (*voices in head that keep you company*) and if she is genuine then we will endeavour to help her;)

Money made from moving house is not income that has to be declared (their loophole not mine) especially as the majority of profit goes on going up the ladder, MONEY TO RENOVATE THE NEXT ONE or off the mortgage and not into my back pocket, what goes into my account is maybe £1,000-2000 which is below my personal allowance anyway and wouldnt make any diff to tax cred.

And I asked whether there is anything stopping people from working 10-2 but claiming for full days at nursery to get some free time, which I think we concluded there wasn't, thus that was indeed my plan on the employment front after I finished at uni, but ended up having a go at this business instead.

As for going through au pairs, we had 3 in 2 years, I'm visiting one of them at the end of August in Italy and another I plan to visit next year. It was only the Australian one that we had problems with.

ged1980

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Ah, none of us wear blouses

please say you do wear some kind of top :rolleyes:

shellsuit

shellsuit wrote: »

How can someone work 40 hours a week and bring home £0??

Does anyone know how? Please?

missk_ensington

shellsuit wrote: »

Does anyone know how? Please?

New businesses often make a loss, or only break even in the first year at least, sometimes for the first few years after legitimate expenses have been deducted

ged1980

missk_ensington wrote: »

New businesses often make a loss, or only break even in the first year at least, sometimes for the first few years after legitimate expenses have been deducted

but you can still make a good 20k a year claiming unlegitimate benefits

dmg24

missk_ensington wrote: »

No technically I dont have a degree, but the only thing that can change that grade is an examiner deciding my dissertation is only worth 58 and not 64. It is feasible for it to drop 1 or 2 marks, but not 6. I have sat 12 exams over 3 years, and 12 essays and the marks for those have already been validated, so I doubt my mark is going to go down from a 2.1, especially as it isn't anywhere near the border

I am not saying which uni, as knowing some of you on here you'd probably write to the English Department sending hate mail on my behalf or something, but it is now in top 10 Universities in the UK.

She is now a (non) graduate from a top ten university!

Now if I were you I would have gone better than that - surely it is one of the top ten in the world? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

What is your dissertation on?

missk_ensington

ged1980 wrote: »

but you can still make a good 20k a year claiming unlegitimate benefits

Only £20k? The new car alone that'll be run through the business next year will be about that..... Without exception, I dont know one single person who is self-employed and doesnt take advantage of the travel/subsistence perks. And can do it perfectly legitimately, for example I had to see a maufacturer in London last week so my hotel and train is a legitimate expense, however I'd been planning to meet soe old friends for ages, so did that as well for free. There's nothing illegitimate about that, but there's no questioning it as a perk

Zara33

Nothing good on the telly tonight missk