4th October 2016, 11:33 AM
I recently tried to claim tax credits as an archaeologist but they claimed that I did not do enough hours to qualify. Oh the shame. It appeared that they had some calculation based on 30 hours a week at minimum wage for a year which is back engineered by taking the previous years earnings and dividing by the minimum wage. What this then led me into was asking the HMRC if you did not earn more than your personal allowance did you have to add up your expenses to which the answer appeared to be no which then led to the question well if you did not earn even your personal allowance could you not just claim that you had earned your personal allowance to which the answer appeared to be no. The tax credit people did not like/agree with the HMRCs answers. Now the HMRC and the tax credit people don't appear to be the same people. The HMRC were really helpful and always have been with any dealings I have had with them but these tax credit people seem to be turning self employment into some vast fraud based on "profit" that self employed persons will commit if they let them, even though the tax credit system is based on previous years disasters rather than as a subsidy paid as a lump sum after a bad year that could be used as capital for the next....
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...tax-credit
https://www.gov.uk/working-tax-credit/eligibility
"To qualify, your self-employed work must aim to make a profit". £1 is a profit, what they mean is "a" profit which is "x" and they get to not tell you what "x" is apart from it will involve their miserable morality.
basically a bunch of Remain public service salaried pension grabbers make up any rules they like and take the piss out of the self employed. The tax credit system has to overhauled by a panel solely comprising of self employed brexit people.
I discovered that I had earnt £1 less than some figure "y", appealed and seemed to have qualified.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...tax-credit
https://www.gov.uk/working-tax-credit/eligibility
"To qualify, your self-employed work must aim to make a profit". £1 is a profit, what they mean is "a" profit which is "x" and they get to not tell you what "x" is apart from it will involve their miserable morality.
basically a bunch of Remain public service salaried pension grabbers make up any rules they like and take the piss out of the self employed. The tax credit system has to overhauled by a panel solely comprising of self employed brexit people.
I discovered that I had earnt £1 less than some figure "y", appealed and seemed to have qualified.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist