Worried! Help me please!

smiler247

Hello everyone,

I'm in the process of trying to claim a tax refund, as due to having casual work with various employment agencies and finding myself on BR codes, I have overpaid around £500 in tax in the last tax year.

However, I have also done some work which is cash in hand (private tutoring which is organised by someone else). Do I need to declare this, and if so how do I go about declaring it?

It has only been for 1 or 2 hours a week at the most (and not every week). I went to claim JSA at one time and when I explained to them about the cash in hand situation the adviser said not to bother to declare it as it would cause more trouble than it's worth due to not having any payslips etc.

Can anyone help? I'm really worried about it all - this is the first time I've had to try and sort out my tax codes.

Thanks

Smiler

tigtag02

I would imagine that the cash in hand would have to be treated as Self Employed and returns filed.

You could call HMRC anonymously for advice maybe

Cook_County

It sounds like self-employment to me too, so you need to register as self-employed and complete the self-employment pages in a tax return.

nealnomoney

Dont bother registering, as the man said, its more hassell than what its worth. By the sounds of it its not very much money anyway.

Cook_County

nealnomoney wrote: »

Dont bother registering, as the man said, its more hassell than what its worth. By the sounds of it its not very much money anyway.

Fraud is not money-saving - it is illegal. There is nothing wrong with registering; the tax may be less than you think if you can offset costs of travel, books, use of home, internet, computer etc.

longforgotten

Dont bother registering, as the man said, its more hassell than what its worth. By the sounds of it its not very much money anyway.

All you need is for someone to dob you in and then you're really in the soup. I would own up if I were you.

Treading_Water

If you are only working 2-3 hours per week as you say then you will be liable to exemption for class 4 ni, but should still register as self employed and declare the income either as self employed income or as other income in the main pages of the tax return. Ignoring the issue won't make it go away. the sooner you deal with it the better.
You should find that your main income taxed at BR will offset the other income and you will still end up with a rebate - and be legal!!!

consumerpower

It is strictly correct you should include this and do a self assesment form. I dont think you need to register as self employeed I might be wrong though.

If you are caught out by HMRC, they will access you and make you pay it back, however they carry out a test to see if you are carrying on trading,

Are you going to continue doing this tution, and did you do it in order to earn money?