New job!! on less than £150, do i still pay tax?

juanmanuelmarquez

Just got back from holiday, and made redundant as not given holiday pay and my job was not reserved. anyway, I managed to get a part time job of 15 hours at superdrug, which pays me about £95 per week. the hours are pretty rubbish if im honest and looking to see if I can increase them by getting job a elsewhere.

I was wondering would I be on emergency tax for the first month or do I get the full amount since its less than £150 a week and less hours...they didn't ask for a p45 yet, which is a little strange, well its been a week.

can anyone shed some light on this topic.

BitterAndTwisted

If they haven't asked you for your P45 have they asked you to fill in a declaration about this being your only job? They should have. Or perhaps they will ask you before they prepare pay-roll at the end of this month.

The single person's tax-free allowance is about £9k per annum so on that wage you won't have any tax deducted and not very much NI either.

juanmanuelmarquez

so would I be on emergency tax to start off with? taxed at basic rate? even though its a low amount im earning?

paddedjohn

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

If they haven't asked you for your P45 have they asked you to fill in a declaration about this being your only job? They should have. Or perhaps they will ask you before they prepare pay-roll at the end of this month.

The single person's tax-free allowance is about £9k per annum so on that wage you won't have any tax deducted and not very much NI either.

Same as the married persons allowance then.

anamenottaken

juanmanuelmarquez wrote: »

so would I be on emergency tax to start off with? taxed at basic rate? even though its a low amount im earning?

"Emergency tax" would be applied if you completed a P46. It allows the standard tax-free allowance.

If you don't provide a P45 nor complete a P46, they should operate the BR code - where you pay 20% tax on all your earnings. But that would be corrected once your P45 was processed.

Chase your previous employer for a P45. Pending receiving that, get a P46 from Superdrug and complete and return it quickly.

anamenottaken

juanmanuelmarquez wrote: »

Just got back from holiday, and made redundant as not given holiday pay and my job was not reserved. anyway, I managed to get a part time job of 15 hours at superdrug, which pays me about £95 per week. the hours are pretty rubbish if im honest and looking to see if I can increase them by getting job a elsewhere.

I was wondering would I be on emergency tax for the first month or do I get the full amount since its less than £150 a week and less hours...they didn't ask for a p45 yet, which is a little strange, well its been a week.

can anyone shed some light on this topic.

What do you mean by "made redundant as not given holiday pay and my job was not reserved"?

Did you take holiday without notifying your employer?
Were you dismissed on the grounds of redundancy?
Why were you not paid holiday pay?

paddedjohn

It sounds like the OP went AWOL and was sacked on his return

ValHaller

paddedjohn wrote: »

It sounds like the OP went AWOL and was sacked on his return

Does that answer anything relevant? Or is it a platform for some kind of moral perspective on this? Sacked, redundant, resigned - the old job is over and a P45 should be forthcoming

surreysaver

ValHaller wrote: »

Does that answer anything relevant?

It answers the question in the previous post. Perhaps you should be asking whether the question was relevant?

anamenottaken

surreysaver wrote: »

It answers the question in the previous post. Perhaps you should be asking whether the question was relevant?

The question I asked was because it did indeed sound like the OP may have been absent without leave from the employer but this was not certain and I didn't want to jump to conclusions. (I have returned from a holiday and found an email dismissing me - because of restructuring - but that's another story.)

If the OP had taken approved holiday then the "as not given holiday pay" should be questioned (might be they had not accrued holiday or had been on an extended overseas trip or received rolled-up holiday pay).

paddedjohn

ValHaller wrote: »

Does that answer anything relevant? Or is it a platform for some kind of moral perspective on this? Sacked, redundant, resigned - the old job is over and a P45 should be forthcoming

I was replying to post #6