None tax payer??

System

londoninvestor wrote: »

particularly the meaning of "earnings chargeable to income tax". .

That's the nub of the ambiguity, I think.


To an ordinary person that means earnings you pay tax on.


To HMRC it means earnings you would be paying tax on if you earned enough of it to exceed the tax allowance.




(HMRC like subtleties of that kind. It's like the distinction between VATable at zero rate, and VAT-exempt)

londoninvestor

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

(HMRC like subtleties of that kind. It's like the distinction between VATable at zero rate, and VAT-exempt)

Not to mention "outside the scope of VAT"

michaels

I have to buy road tax for my car every year, the annual cost is £0 (electric car) but nonetheless I still have to 'buy' it and would be fined if I failed to....