30 hr tax credits and ebay

DX2

stu12345 wrote: »

im trying, so hard but as a driver using tachos, i have to watch what hours i can do driving for a second comapny, eg rest periods, total hours on road per day.

Simplez get a second job that doesn't require you to drive.

blue_monkey_2

When you apply for HB and CTC they will want to see your accounts to prove that you have not earned anything - if you have only just started working they will want to see projected sales figures. They are going to wonder why you are starting a business with the projected sales figure of 0. And you will not get the benefit and they will probably also report you to HMRC. At the end of the year, if you have earned more than you declare you'll have to pay the benefits back.

We are entitled but I do not claim it as I am too scared of having to repay it if I have a better month than declared. Way too messy so we get by on what we have.

blue_monkey_2

DX2 wrote: »

Simplez get a second job that doesn't require you to drive.

Don't be ridiculous, 20 hour week over 7 days a week, I don't think that even covers the minimum per day BEFORE rest breaks!! How dare you say the OP get another job, he is clearly overworked as it is.

Bit more about driving hours http://www.uk-trucking.net/legal/drivinghours.asp

WTD: http://www.uk-trucking.net/legal/workingtimedirective.asp

The headlines of this legislation are pretty straightforward, but you need to get to grips with the details and their implications. The Department for Transport's section on this legislation www.dft.gov.uk/freight/rtd will take you to the guidance published in March 2005.
The work limits apply to all work (not just driving time), and cover all work carried out for road transport employers (not just the driver's main employer). However, the advice from VOSA is now that employment outside the transport sector, such as bar work, does not count towards working time, but it does not count as rest for drivers' hours regulations purposes.

DX2

blue_monkey wrote: »

Don't be ridiculous, 20 hour week over 7 days a week, I don't think that even covers the minimum per day BEFORE rest breaks!! How dare you say the OP get another job, he is clearly overworked as it is.

My bad

blue_monkey_2

stu12345 wrote: »

capable, i was a taxi driver in past and done my own books and tax return.Im asking is the extra hours on ebay asa business worth it to get tax credits as its annoying if you are emplyed say 28 or 29 hrs and you cant claim it.
As its very hard to fins a second job let alone a first job that takes you to the 30 hrs limit, too many pt time jobs out there and if youdont have kids your financially worse off than a single parent that only needs to work 16 hrs as these pt time jobs seem to be taken by. sometimes folk with no kids have to take pt time jobs and cant claim working tax credit, childrens tax credit.
a female friend with a son I know makes over £100 more than me working pt time in a supermarket and her credits than i make working more hours than her, but still below the magic 30 hrs threshold.andi can ssure you her son is at school when she works so no problems, but she doesnt spend her extra £100 on his food/clothes.

Psst. Get a job that is more than 30 hours a week and you'll be much better off and will not need tax credits. Why find a job just so you can claim tax credits - you are making yourself sound like a leech. You know, pay your own way through life and all that!!

Hammyman

nannytone wrote: »

i think it'd be difficult to prove that you spend 10 hours a week doing it.
my daughter buys and re sells on ebay, and it takes her about 4 hours a week (and she makes a profit lol)

I sell stuff on Ebay. Its a fulltime job. For example, today I went buying. I left my house at 9am and got back at 4.30pm. When I got back I had to process the days sales which took another hour and a half. I checked my emails after tea to find I'd sold a laptop so as I have to book collection the day before, I ended up processing that sale and packing it up - another half hour gone. So today all in all I've worked over 9 hrs. Tomorrow will be spent doing the previous weeks books (takes a morning) plus another hour or so processing that days sales and the rest of the day spent prepping the stuff I bought. On Wednesday I'll be listing it (take all morning) and processing days sales plus a couple of repair jobs so thats another full day...

swingaloo

This thread gets sidetracked into a discussion about the pros and cons of ebay selling when in reality the OP posted and suggested ebay as a way to make himself qualify for working tax credits without the working part!

Hammyman

DX2 wrote: »

Simplez get a second job that doesn't require you to drive.

Sorry, doesn't work like that. Even if the second job is not driving, it still is counted as "other work" under EU Drivers Hours rules and the driver still needs to meet the daily and weekly rest requirements under EU Drivers Hours rules.

For example, you can't do a job in a factory Monday to Friday and then drive on a Saturday and Sunday as you would not meet the EU Drivers Hours requirement of a 40hr weekly rest period. The most you could do is drive one Saturday or Sunday every other week.

Hammyman

blue_monkey wrote: »

Don't be ridiculous, 20 hour week over 7 days a week, I don't think that even covers the minimum per day BEFORE rest breaks!! How dare you say the OP get another job, he is clearly overworked as it is.

Bit more about driving hours http://www.uk-trucking.net/legal/drivinghours.asp

WTD: http://www.uk-trucking.net/legal/workingtimedirective.asp

Seeing as you obviously didn't understand the pages you were reading, it is ILLEGAL to do more than 6 driving periods in any one week and you also cannot drive 7 days per week, no matter how little, because you would not meet the weekly rest requirements and also because of the weekly rest requirements, you cannot work 7 days a week either, whether driving or non-driving job.

If you're going to try and be clever by quoting legislation at least make sure you know what you're on about.

nannytone_2

hammyman.......the OP isnt intending on selling on ebay as a living, ir even to make money. just to say he works another 10 hours in order to claim tax credits.
though he seems to have forgotten that he lives with his partner who works. so regardless of how many hours he does or doesnt work he will have too much income.