Is tax payable?

chrisbur

zaksmum wrote: »

It was the standard personal allowance that everyone gets...the one that's just gone up to £10,000 for this tax year, plus she has the extra £60 a year allowance as she washes her work uniform at home.

As said before the only way to tell exactly what is happening is to give the full details asked for in post 6.

zygurat789

zaksmum wrote: »

She earns exactly the minimum wage but she's on a zero hours contract and has not been guaranteed the 30 hours every week.

Her last P60 showed the figure of £8486 gross for the tax year 2013-2014.

It doesn't add up to me either and she has asked me to try to find out what is going on as she doesn't have a computer. She did query it with HMRC and their response was that it is correct that she pays tax, quoting the tax codes and figures as detailed above.

In the context of this last years earnings are not relevant.

Caz3121

zaksmum wrote: »

Her pay doesn't fluctuate at all. She works a 30 hour week and is paid monthly.

zaksmum wrote: »

She earns exactly the minimum wage but she's on a zero hours contract and has not been guaranteed the 30 hours every week.

It cannot be both, she either works and gets paid for 30 hours every week and (assuming not term time working as mentioned) she would be paid £6.31 x 30 x 52 = £9842.60, adding in the pensions would make tax payable of around £20 per week + NI, or her income varies and her total may be lower

agrinnall

zygurat789 wrote: »

In the context of this last years earnings are not relevant.

Actually we don't know, she may have been paying tax at this time last year too so it could be helpful in determining what's going on - although I'd agree that for the current situation it's figures from the most recent payslip that are really needed.

zaksmum

I will get the exact details and post back when I have them. Her company did actually close down last year in February and reopened at the end of May under a slightly different name.

Only a few staff were reemployed and at a lower wage than previously.

That may explain the discrepancy because her year's salary didn't actually begin till end of May.

Caz3121

and if she received JSA when not working then this needs to be added on as it is taxable

zygurat789

zaksmum wrote: »

I will get the exact details and post back when I have them. Her company did actually close down last year in February and reopened at the end of May under a slightly different name.

Only a few staff were reemployed and at a lower wage than previously.

That may explain the discrepancy because her year's salary didn't actually begin till end of May.

Curiouser and curiouser.
Everything you add is going in the wrong direction, it is now even possible that the employer is not doing the correct thing.

zaksmum

Caz3121 wrote: »

and if she received JSA when not working then this needs to be added on as it is taxable

She got ESA as she has a long term illness

zaksmum

zygurat789 wrote: »

Curiouser and curiouser.
Everything you add is going in the wrong direction, it is now even possible that the employer is not doing the correct thing.

In what way may the employer not be doing the correct thing?

I hope she gets this sorted because I'm convinced she shouldn't be paying any tax at all.

zygurat789

zaksmum wrote: »

In what way may the employer not be doing the correct thing?

I hope she gets this sorted because I'm convinced she shouldn't be paying any tax at all.

So there is another source of, I presume, taxable income, that makes all the diference. ESA is taxable if it is contributory as opposed to income based which is not taxable. If the ESA is not taxable then we are still in the dark.
There is still the matter of the code number and her salary, I would suspect that the code number has been reduced by the amount of ESA as would happen with a state pension.