Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys? (Part Two)

Timmne

Hi guys - I've created a new MSing thread due to this one's size, with some additional information on - this is posted here....

I have linked back to both this and the first thread for reference.

Please let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to do on the new thread. Hopefully jessicamb should be unstickying this one and stickying the new one soon....

Remember to subscribe to the new one for updates!

Timmne

hollydays

Anyone worked for the Company Amber Arch? Any comments on what they are like to work for?

wax

hollydays wrote: »

Anyone worked for the Company Amber Arch? Any comments on what they are like to work for?

They are excellent and pay quick.

chilli_em

Hi folks,
Just a quickie, I've been mystery shopping since about September, done about twelve jobs or so - just for one company. I had no idea I had to register with the Inland Revenue, so now I'm really worried! I haven't kept any records of my reciepts etc, although I can access all the jobs I have done on the website.
Mainly - I'm a full time student - does this affect how I pay my tax???

Thanks all
Emma

jobbingmusician

chilli_em wrote: »

Hi folks,
Just a quickie, I've been mystery shopping since about September, done about twelve jobs or so - just for one company. I had no idea I had to register with the Inland Revenue, so now I'm really worried! I haven't kept any records of my reciepts etc, although I can access all the jobs I have done on the website.
Mainly - I'm a full time student - does this affect how I pay my tax???

Thanks all
Emma

Firstly, just to let you know you have posted on the wrong thread - there's a new one at
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=614705

Secondly, the best thing you can do is to ring your tax office, plead ignorance and ask how you register. If you worked before 31.3.07 you should put in a tax return NOW! (due by 31st Jan)....

Beenie

I was a MS with Retail Maxim for 2-3 years. To be honest, you hardly earn anything when you take into account travelling time to the job, parking, actually doing the survey (some were many many pages long) and then either writing it up or having to hang around in the evening for a phone call so that you could read out the report to a typist. For all this , you would get the grandly titled 'fee' of £9.00.

I think I earned less than £40 a year and did it more for my own entertainment. When I was unable to do 3 separate jobs to me, they sent me a P45! The amount on it was laughable.

debrag

I'm had 5 emails about MS jobs none I can do as they are during office hours. Are there any not in this time frame?

Mokeyjen

Hi,

I have just been reading about becoming a MS as an extra way of earning some more cash, and although it sounds like a really good idea, I am a bit worried about the tax part of it...

I am already employed full time and was wondering how doing this extra work is going to affect it...

Can anyone help who is in the same situation as me please??

Cheers,
Jen

Quasar

Mokeyjen wrote: »

Hi,

I have just been reading about becoming a MS as an extra way of earning some more cash, and although it sounds like a really good idea, I am a bit worried about the tax part of it...

I am already employed full time and was wondering how doing this extra work is going to affect it...

Can anyone help who is in the same situation as me please??

Cheers,
Jen

You will have to pay tax on the mystery shopping fees you receive. Most MS companies will take tax at source and you will have to give them your tax code. Some pay gross, which means you have to inform the Inland Revenue and then fill in a tax return form. There will be no effect on your full time job unless your contract specifies that you can't carry out any other work.

I am a full time mystery shopper and allocator, and part of my fees are taxed at source, the rest are not, and I have to do my tax return every year.

If you thinkt it's worth doing some mystery shopping, I'd check with your tax office as to the best way to sort out your tax.

Cookiecrumble

Hi I'm just about to sign up with Retail Eyes. Is anyone with them? PM me with your name and I can enter your name and you get a referral fee.