Benifits for a part time employed 22 year old

Nada666

His income covers rent, council tax, bills, food and travel. Although things are tight I doubt the bills, food and travel are only £71 per week. As such he is not likely to receive much if any. He may be entitled to some housing benefit and council tax benefit but it is unlikely to be much - find out his LH allowance and compare with his typical total income. He is too young to claim tax credits (unless he has a disability.) Of course, he also has to declare his tax affairs.

Bogof_Babe

Morlock wrote: »

It was taxable income, personal allowance is an amount of taxable income that is tax free. You received cash in hand because you did not declare it as taxable income.

I received the survey payments into my bank account (= audit trail). I'm not sure why you expect everyone who doesn't have enough income to be liable to pay any tax, to "declare" every trifling sum when it doesn't take them anywhere near their tax free allowance.

We are talking 24p a week here. Even if tax were due on it, which it isn't as I'm a non-taxpayer, it would be 5p a week. Does that justify the manpower of someone having to receive my "declaration", only to file it under "no tax due"?

I maintain that it is up to the individual to complete a tax return, either if sent one or if they know their income merits one. If they earn a tiny amount, why would the tax man be interested?

Where does it say that declarations need be made by people whose income is below the personal tax threshold?

If this is the case, why don't YouGov and similar survey operators make it clear when people sign up, that payments received need to be declared for tax purposes?

If Avon supply details of their distributors to the tax office, presumably this is required by the tax office, otherwise why would they bother? In which case, if the tax office requires survey operators to supply details of their "employees", then I'm sure they already have them. As I recall, on joining up I had to give them my name and address details, so it's not exactly working in the black economy!

Would love to hear from any other non-working survey submitters, who I am sure make a point of declaring their annual £12.50 income!