Any REAL ways that the ordinary small non-driver person can get cash back from tax??

dzug1

Angel89 wrote: »

Are 'luncheon vouchers' a national thing that you can claim??

Or just subject to if your company gives them?


And for my job, i work in security, so i had to pay £200 to do a training course to get my SIA license training, and then had to pay £245 to get my actual physcial license card from the SIA.

I ONLY needed this because my job specified that i did, but so how would i go about claim tax back on that please??

Ask your tax office - they will probably accept a letter for a one-off claim.

dzug1

Angel89 wrote: »

But does nayone know anyways you can get big expenses like your travel to work/food at work costs deducted or offset against tax?? :cool::T

You can't.

Self employed people (unless they are on the fiddle) can't get these expenses against tax either.

pelirocco

Angel89 wrote: »

Aloha ive seen some of the threads on here about how you can save some money on tax but only if you drive a car a certain number of miles each week, if you run a business and the income directly from that is at such a level.... ect


But that doesn't actually apply to the majority of people who just do normal average jobs, have low/average income which they lose 30% of automatically each month through having it being taken as tax,
and don't really have any ways of getting any of that money back into their hands as the cash which they have earnt through the work they have done.


So i was just wondering if anyone knows any 'creative' ways in which normal people who dont drive and dont run UK businesses can get some cash back from the tax man?? :beer::A


I know that unless you are extremely lucky you wont be able to get your work to 'offset your travel costs against tax for you',
which wouldn't actually be hard to do at all though since they could simply look and see how many days they want you to work that month, see how much the trainfare is for you each day,
and then just pay you that money in cash at the start of the month and deduct it from your gross salary that they would pay you accordingly.


Its unlikely you will have a job where you are lucky enough that they will do that for you,
although i know of many many places that do that when their employees buy their products, so they get them tax free.


But does nayone know anyways you can get big expenses like your travel to work/food at work costs deducted or offset against tax?? :cool::T

If you are self employed or run a business you do not get tax relief on your travel costs to and from work , nor do you get any allowance for food . Only costs involved with the running of the business are tax deductable

border_collie

Angel89 wrote: »

Are 'luncheon vouchers' a national thing that you can claim??

Or just subject to if your company gives them?


And for my job, i work in security, so i had to pay £200 to do a training course to get my SIA license training, and then had to pay £245 to get my actual physcial license card from the SIA.

I ONLY needed this because my job specified that i did, but so how would i go about claim tax back on that please??

Your employer was allowed to pay fully for that course including travel and hotels etc.
They can pay for courses for things you choose to do which may only be slightly relevant to your job.
Like gcse courses or first aid etc.

I don't know anything about luncheon vouchers but they were some ideas off the top of my head for people to chase up at work.

Angel89_2

pelirocco wrote: »

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If you are self employed or run a business you do not get tax relief on your travel costs to and from work , nor do you get any allowance for food . Only costs involved with the running of the business are tax deductable

yea i know! lol

I was self employed for the 1st 3 working years of my life so i do know what wouldnt be tax deductable.

(Although i also didnt pay any tax, so am not sure of all the exact things that you can get tax exemption for)


Although if i had paid tax id just have swindled it all so 90% of my money was in the form of operational costs anyways! :rotfl::T

Money_Grabber13579

Angel89 wrote: »

yea i know! lol

I was self employed for the 1st 3 working years of my life so i do know what wouldnt be tax deductable.

(Although i also didnt pay any tax, so am not sure of all the exact things that you can get tax exemption for)


Although if i had paid tax id just have swindled it all so 90% of my money was in the form of operational costs anyways! :rotfl::T

That's okay until the revenue come and inspect your books and you get arrested for fraudulent behaviour.

Wookey

Angel89 wrote: »

Are 'luncheon vouchers' a national thing that you can claim??

Or just subject to if your company gives them?


And for my job, i work in security, so i had to pay £200 to do a training course to get my SIA license training, and then had to pay £245 to get my actual physcial license card from the SIA.

I ONLY needed this because my job specified that i did, but so how would i go about claim tax back on that please??

If you are security licensed, do you do work outside of your 9-5 job ie. doorman for a nightclub/pub, music concerts or events, in theory you could turn self employed and freelance at things like this. You would still be paye for your 9-5 work and any travel/office/equipment expenses you have for doing the freelance security work would then be claimable. Tax and NI contributions would/could also then need to be paid as could maybe an accountant for filing self assessment forms.

Nosht

It used to be the case that if you were paid off for 2 weeks you could claim a tax rebate at this time. This was done at holiday time so the person could go off work, claim a tax rebate then start work again.
Not very safe I know but it was done.

Regards,

N.

Fulham_Mark

Getting a pay-off when being made redundant is still tax-free (first £30k?)

When this happens you should be paid for any holidays that you haven't taken at around 130% of standard pay. There are only 240 days in the year that you can work so paid holiday is worth 365/240.

In the past you could avoid income taxes by living abroad for over 6months at a time in one tax year. So potentially you could quit in August and live on a beach in Thailand until April 8th and not pay tax. Apparently this is very hard to do unless you have set no root down in the UK.

I read in a newspaper yesterday that 8%-9% of child tax-credit applications are fraudulent. which seems quite a good money earner as far fewer than 9% are investigated

fengirl_2

As an ex-taxgirl, to me this thread is an amusing summary of all the myths and legends passed round in bars from taxpayer to taxpayer, which then get translated into wacky claims to the tax office late on a Sunday night!