How much can you earn

[fruitsalad]

before you have to pay tax?

[ummmm]

What does your tax code say?

[Dris]

Did I imagine that there was going to be a 10k cap before you started paying tax-or was it just in a manifesto?

[fruitsalad]

just been told its £125

[ummmm]

I think it's £4,670 per year...

[Mick-Talbot]

you've been told nonsense.

[Dris]

That sounds about right.My daughter was coming out with £160 in her hand for a 40hr week -how can anyone be expected to live on that with rent,heating, food.full Council Tax and travelling expenses to and fro work-beats me! She's been laid/paid off so she's back on the claiming benefits treadmill.Thats a F/T job in itself in fact she did say to them that some people claim for a living she's only doing it as needs must until she gets another job.

[Dris]

Not when someone provides the neccessary info it isnt Doc.Cheers xxx

[Mick-Talbot]

£4 An hour, that's soul destroying Dris.

[craft1948]

£6475 a year....

[ummmm]

Yep...lol Craft. I put my numbers in wrong...

[Dris]

It was and is Mike -she was on the minimum hourly rate.Slave labour via an agency for the biggest Building Contractors in the UK-rip off Britain right enough but she still wants to work and not claim.

[Dris]

oops Mick sorry.

[Chaffinch]

£4.00 is below the minimum wage!! I wonder how many folks on here actually work, having looked at the times of the posts today hmmmmmmmm............ I wish I could get away with posting whilst at work, or do I ??

[craft1948]

I'm a pensioner :-)

[Dris]

£4 is what you come out with after paying tax and NI.She was never on any websites at work.That was her wage whether you wish to believe it or not -I saw her payslips plus I have had to subsidise her as its virtually impossible to live on the poverty line unless you are claiming benefits and have kids.

[Dris]

or have a good job...

[anneasquith]

40 years in the health service and working with homeless parents and children gives me the right to post during the day.

[boxtops]

OK so anyone can earn (or have other income of) £6475 before they become eligible to pay basic rate tax, so that about £540 a month gross. That's before you add any other allowances to which you may be entitled.