Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys?

sindy_2

PONDSAVER wrote:

Any idea what these testing centres involve? Any thoughts - pm me if you want...... I got paid from GAP today YIPPEE!!!

Nice!....I think Grass roots paid me today..I had a credit to my account but it doesn't show up who its from until the next day lol

inspiremetosave

can anyone give me their name for Retail Eyes referral fee? ASAP as I'm applying now. First to PM me

Rachie_B

inspiremetosave wrote:

Who are RE? I'm already with TNS and Grassroots, not getting much so any others you'd recommend?
Thanks x

just sign up with as many as possible ,i get most of my work through TNS .
RE,grassroots and gap arent too bad for me either

theres also https://www.baidata.com https://www.frontlinefocus.com

leni

I also got Grassroots payment through smashed my credit card payment this month now

Just gonna do my accounts for Mystery Shopping.
Does anyone know what expences we can "claim" for mileage?
I've been keeping track but am I also gonna use https://www.mapquest.co.uk to get the milage for shops I forgot to note down the milage!

cheers!

izoomzoom

izoomzoom wrote:

Involves purchasing a lottery ticket - I have to get a receipt. Do they mean the lottery ticket itself, or do I need to get a till receipt as well ? - as that will surely ring alarm bells ??

Many thanks

Well I did my shop and asked for the receipt, at the right time, and the lady said, sorry we don't give out receipts .... Now what ?

I am just gonna submit my ticket and hope that will be accepted. Maybe I'll win more than the fee, in which case I won't care whether they pay me or not !

izoomzoom

sindy wrote:

Its about 27.00 pounds

Can't say that I would really be interested. It would need to be on my doorstep for me to bother.

PONDSAVER_2

i did a similar one for RE but I did not need to submit a receipt.

Becles

leni wrote:

Does anyone know what expences we can "claim" for mileage?

You can claim 40p a mile for business miles. For S/E work, just keep a tally of total S/E miles and multiply it by 40p to get your mileage expenses, and take that off your profits. Your profits will already include reimbursements for mileage, so it'll work itself out.

On PAYE employers keep a tally of the miles for each PAYE company and how much they reimburse you. You can claim the difference between 40p and the mileage paid (if any!) on your tax return. You'll have a page for each employer which is why you need to keep a seperate tally for each company.

PONDSAVER_2

does anyone have an example of their spreadsheet they use for msing.....I am not sure how to do it taking into account mileage and the stuff you bought etc.

Also for jobs where you don't get paid you just get the meal for free how do you count them??

and the stuff you bough are they classed as payment as such??

leni

PONDSAVER wrote:

does anyone have an example of their spreadsheet they use for msing.....I am not sure how to do it taking into account mileage and the stuff you bought etc.

Also for jobs where you don't get paid you just get the meal for free how do you count them??

and the stuff you bough are they classed as payment as such??

I don't have excel at home so have just done a table in word with have 9 colums

Date, Company, Assignment, Fee, Reimbursements, payment date, Milage, Tax (22%), profit from job (which is... fee - milage@40p per mile / 100 x 78 = profit) if that makes sence?

I have to manually add it all up but heyho! I assume you don't include reimbursements in tax because it's not profit!

re "free meals" I'd put it down as fee - £0 reimbursement £whatever it was