paying income tax

[hazelcs]

after suffering depression i have now started a new job with a charity. As i am getting incapacity benefit, or a back to work entitlement i am over the weekly threshold for tax. My employers say as i earn less than �80 from them they dont have anything to do with tax or ni contributions and are not getting involved with paying tax for me as they have 3 part time people working rather than 2 full time so they DONT have to get involved with ni or tax. How do i go about paying the tax without having to go self employed??

[Ethel]

Phone your tax office - they really are very helpful.

[Taylortax]

The only way you can do it is to tell the tax office - either by phoning them now or sending in a tax return after 5 April. Your employer is obliged to operate PAYE regardless of whether he thinks he should or not and he is the one who could get into trouble. You may be under the NI threshold, but the other income means you must have tax deducted. I'm afraid it looks like you and this employer may have to part company - you can't afford to get behind with the tax and you're not self employed due to the terms under which you work. It's either drop the employer in it or get another job, I'm afraid!

[kaztuz]

Hi

I have recently just finished Incapacity Benefit, and I was doing the same as you working too. As IB is taxable the secondary income - e.g. your job is the one which you will have to pay tax on whether your employer likes it or not. As Taylortax says you must tell your tax office immediately your situation. Be warned though the DWP who pay your IB took four months to advise the tax office I was getting IB and working therefore my second wage was taxable. When I finished IB and the tax office sent my new tax code, because the DWP took so long to inform the tax office I was also working, they said I owed �500 tax , luckily for me I didn't.