Housing benefit and adjustment to tax code
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mopixy
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Hi,
Does anyone know how a tax code adjustment affect HB calculations? What happens if my gross income stays the same but my tax code gets adjusted by HMRC and I pay more tax? Should I expect my HB to increase?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Does anyone know how a tax code adjustment affect HB calculations? What happens if my gross income stays the same but my tax code gets adjusted by HMRC and I pay more tax? Should I expect my HB to increase?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi,
Does anyone know how a tax code adjustment affect HB calculations? What happens if my gross income stays the same but my tax code gets adjusted by HMRC and I pay more tax? Should I expect my HB to increase?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
No because you are awarded benefits based on gross earnings, before tax not after.0 -
No because you are awarded benefits based on gross earnings, before tax not after.
In my HB award letter I can see something like this:Income you told us about: Earnings Gross £XXX Less Tax - £XX Less National Insurance - £XX Less Disregarded Income - £XX . . . . . .
This is how they work out my excess income to be taken off the local housing allowance. Do you mean that they work out the tax figure themselves, regardless of what my payslip says?0 -
Thanks for your response.
In my HB award letter I can see something like this:Income you told us about: Earnings Gross £XXX Less Tax - £XX Less National Insurance - £XX Less Disregarded Income - £XX . . . . . .
This is how they work out my excess income to be taken off the local housing allowance. Do you mean that they work out the tax figure themselves, regardless of what my payslip says?
I'm totally wrong http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/council-tax-and-benefits/benefits/how-it-all-worked-out/your-income0 -
Every £1 of extra tax taken increases your Housing Benefit by 65p.I enjoy flower arranging, kittens, devil worship, the study of serial killers and their methods and road kill jigsaws.0
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