Mystery shopping tax return

Flower_Power_mark_2

Hi, I was unsure where to post this so please accept my apologies if it is in the wrong place. BAsically I have just completed my first tax return as a mystery shopper and when I completed it it told me that I did not owe any tax! I'm thinking this can't be right but was hoping somebody here could let me know the score. I earned about £170 from mystery shopping and minus expenses this worked at £88 for the year. Is it correct that I have no tax to pay? If it helps they took a figure of around £6000 off my total and called it Personal allowance.

Thanks in advance

hornetgirl

Have you earned anything else during the tax year? You are allowed to earn up to your personal allowance before any tax gets deducted.

jc2703

do you have any other income? a wage from an employer or any other paid income? if not then that is correct - you do not owe any tax . If your personal allowance is used up somewhere else (ie from a 'main job') then you should put this income on your tax return (information from your P60 from April 2009)

Hope this helps

blindman

Flower_Power_mark_2 wrote: »

Hi, I was unsure where to post this so please accept my apologies if it is in the wrong place. BAsically I have just completed my first tax return as a mystery shopper and when I completed it it told me that I did not owe any tax! I'm thinking this can't be right but was hoping somebody here could let me know the score. I earned about £170 from mystery shopping and minus expenses this worked at £88 for the year. Is it correct that I have no tax to pay? If it helps they took a figure of around £6000 off my total and called it Personal allowance.

Thanks in advance

First page of the (12th) Mystery Shopping thread :doh:may help

Flower_Power_mark_2

Cheers for the replies.

I have a full time job that earns over this so looks like I have gone wrong somewhere. I will log back in and re do my form.

Kyrae

Sorry for the late reply, but when filling out your tax return i think you should have a set of pages for your self employed income, and another set of pages to fill out about your full time job. It's been a while since I was self employed, but I'm pretty sure thats what I had to do back then

lauralicious

I think I've done something wrong too, I didn't start MSing until August 2009, but got a request to fill out a tax return for the previous tax year anyway. So I did, and put in the info from my P60 from my main job, and it's saying I owe them £54 even though I made no additional money that year! Is it possible my employer has made a miscalculation and I do owe the taxman more money or have I done something wrong? My head hurts :-(

numps

You have to do a page for every paye job you have which will include details and amounts from P60 or P45. You then have the self employed income which can be many companies, which is all together on one page.