childcare payments from tax credits

lkmc01

I understand that to claim childcare payments from the tax credits I have to be working at least 16 hours a week, but I was wondering...

if I tried to make money in different areas of the internet, ie by filling in surveys, buying and selling on ebay and by taking part in slice the pie and therefore going down the self employed route, but I did not reach the minimum wage, would I still be classed as working 16 hours a week if I spent 16 hours a week online trying to make money.

I think not, but does anyone know any different???

DaisyFlower

Why would you need childcare then - sitting at home doing surveys doesnt count as being self employed.

Unless your Ebay was a shop with accounts etc it wouldnt count. You would need to show it was 16 hours a week which I doubt given as the though you dont appear to have a running business.

If you want childcare, it looks like you will need to pay for it.

Mips

Sitting at home doing paid surveys does make you self employed if you are declaring it and keeping your accounts in order, it is no different than doing beauty treatments for a living etc etc

You can declare yourself as self-employed and have your childcare paid and work those hours.

If you are making an income from it then you can declare it and are entitled to childcare.

My friend does the exact the same thing, but does absolutely nothing.... :rolleyes:

scruffy96uk

You would also need to be paying tax and be able to prove this if you deemed yourself self employed.
So really it probably isn't worth going down this route.

alwaysonthego_2

scruffy96uk wrote: »

You would also need to be paying tax and be able to prove this if you deemed yourself self employed.
So really it probably isn't worth going down this route.

Though the op would have to register herself as self employed she does not have to be paying tax to claim tax credits aslong as she is doing 16 hours. The op would need to prove that she was actually spending 16 weeks a week working otherwise more people would be claiming to work that amount of time whereas in reality only doing a fraction of it.

ukjoel

Hi - sorry to hijack the thread but does anyone know where you can find out how much tax credit you can get for this.

Looking at the website it says if you earn over 55k combined you get nothing and that top rate is £300 a week or something similar.

I am trying to work out what you get if you both work and if you have an income of 20k, 30k, 40k etc.

Many thanks

lkmc01

use http://www.entitledto.co.uk/

has proved to be accurate in past