Help to understand PAYE tax

csa

Hi,

I work contracted hourly paid work at two local colleges. A max of 12 hours so usually earn less than 7k a year. I don't really understand tax and what I should and shouldn't be paying considering I don't earn much per annum. I got my pay packet for this month. Which was minus £355. PAYE Tax has just appeared on my pay slip and I assume as I haven't been paying the PAYE Tax it's been taken off in a big chunk.

Please can someone explain clearly about the tax I pay? I had to pay £62 for just 8 hours work last month. (first pay packet from another college which first brough this to my attention).

Thanks

jem16

To give you any sensible answers, you would need to provide more details. For each job can you give tax code, gross pay, tax paid, total gross pay for the year and total tax paid for the year.

chrisbur

This looks to me like something has changed between the last two payslips so could you give the same details as jem16 has requested for the payslips before last as well as the last ones?

xylophone

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/basics.htm