Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

snowwhyte

I have a very simple spreadsheet for my earnings and every time I cash out I put the amount in the spreadsheet. If I forget to put them in the spreadsheet I go to my PayPal activity page, search for Prolific and filter by date. Once I have all the amounts in the spreadsheet I highlight the whole amounts column and press the sum button to add it all up. It's also a good idea to download the Prolific statement and your PayPal statement at the end of the tax year just so you have a record and to simplify when you file the next tax year. 

elsien

I've also had paypal needing me to provide identification documents because of the amount of dollars being converted into pounds. 
Anti-money laundering, I suppose. 

Mum161111

snowwhyte said:

I have a very simple spreadsheet for my earnings and every time I cash out I put the amount in the spreadsheet. If I forget to put them in the spreadsheet I go to my PayPal activity page, search for Prolific and filter by date. Once I have all the amounts in the spreadsheet I highlight the whole amounts column and press the sum button to add it all up. It's also a good idea to download the Prolific statement and your PayPal statement at the end of the tax year just so you have a record and to simplify when you file the next tax year. 

I'm learning too late that I should have been keeping track all along.  I know I have to do it but hope I can find an easy way to do it other than (from 06 April 2023 to date) identifying and adding up the amounts individually.

snowwhyte

Mum161111 said:

snowwhyte said:

I have a very simple spreadsheet for my earnings and every time I cash out I put the amount in the spreadsheet. If I forget to put them in the spreadsheet I go to my PayPal activity page, search for Prolific and filter by date. Once I have all the amounts in the spreadsheet I highlight the whole amounts column and press the sum button to add it all up. It's also a good idea to download the Prolific statement and your PayPal statement at the end of the tax year just so you have a record and to simplify when you file the next tax year. 

I'm learning too late that I should have been keeping track all along.  I know I have to do it but hope I can find an easy way to do it other than (from 06 April 2023 to date) identifying and adding up the amounts individually.

Are all your payments through PayPal? You can filter them by date, deposits and then download them in CSV format. If you have Excel or software that does spreadsheets you just open that file using that. Then you can highlight the payments and get the spreadsheet to total it all.

MollyR

If you go to your Prolific Submissions page, and scroll down to the bottom, you can download your full submission history as a .csv file, which you can then open in Excel, or a database program of your choice, and select and sort as you wish.

snowwhyte

For everyone doing AI fact-checking there's a new message in your Prolific inbox about a pay increase.

Mum161111

Thank you, all, so very much.  I have brain block and this is beyond me.  I definitely will pay any tax I owe but, for now, I (seriously) am incapable of working this out effectively.

I downloaded full submission history (sorry I have no idea if it is a .csv file or not.)  I gave up scrolling when it reached over 3,000 lines of studies. although the "Banner" in Prolific - the new one - says 775 Studies completed so I can't make sense of it at all.  It says what I have earned this year but it must be from January and not the tax year.

I don;t know one end of Excel/spreadsheet from the other and I need to learn.  It is a bit overwhelming but I will get to grips with it a bit at a time.

I know (and apologize) as this is naive - but would it not be enough if Prolific inform HMRC how much they have paid me and HMRC will let me know what I owe?

It's a lesson I need to learn as I should have paid attention and learned long before now.  I definitely won't be trying to cheat on Tax.

MollyR

If you already pay PAYE, I think that HMRC will undoubtedly collect the tax via your Notice of Coding, in the same way that they do if you earn more interest on your savings than the £1000 cut-off.  It is only if you are self-employed and already have to complete a tax return, or if you are not subject to PAYE in any way, that I think you will need to declare it.  All survey companies, and organisations like eBay, will from now on be reporting your earnings direct to HMRC in the same way that banks and building societies already do.

But I am sure that there must be an MSE board discussing all this stuff, with people who know in detail what they are talking about and can advise properly!

snowwhyte

If you earn over £1000 or something you need to register as self-employed and tell HMRC what you earned so they can tell you what you owe. Technically we're self-employed contractors and even if your only self-employed income is from Prolific HMRC doesn't know that. The self assessment form isn't too bad. 

elsien

I’m already employed, so I’m just waiting for prolific to inform HMRC and then they can do whatever they do and let me know if and when I need to do anything extra.