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Taxing a bonus payment

Hi, anyone help.

I received a nice bonus last month (10K) and was taxed a lot more than my normal 22%. This was a one off bonus, and I wondering how the money I am owed will be paid to me, will I receive the money in dribs & drabs over this financial year or will it be resolved in my next pay packet.

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  • tigtag02
    tigtag02 Posts: 6,857 Forumite
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    This is probably because the 10K has taken you over the 40% bracket - if you stay under the bracket come year end and you are on a cumlitive tax code then this will rectify itself.

    HTH
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  • tigtag02
    tigtag02 Posts: 6,857 Forumite
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    lol Al Mac - how do you make it sound so simple - my post looks like gobbledegook and I was trying to say the same thing :eek:

    how to make tax more taxing - ask tigtag ;)
    :heartpuls baby no3 due 16th November :heartpuls
    TEAM YELLOW
    DFD 16/6/10
    "Shut your gob! Or I'll come round your houses and stamp on all your toys" The ONE, the ONLY, the LEGENDARY Gene Hunt :heart2:
  • Bean_Counter
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    tigtag02 wrote: »
    lol Al Mac - how do you make it sound so simple - my post looks like gobbledegook and I was trying to say the same thing :eek:

    how to make tax more taxing - ask tigtag ;)

    Made sense to me!
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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    it works this way...
    assuming your bonus was paid in april 07?

    just for example if your normal pay was 2k per month

    then in april you would pay a massive amount of tax on the 12k gross being
    about £4,000
    but the next month you only pay a very little £85
    and tax continues at that until month 8 when you start paying
    a bit more and then it settles for about 321.
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