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Should you get taxed if you are a full time student?

Help! I'm a FULL time student doing A-Levels. Being told I have to fill out self-assessment and fined £100?

  • Basically, in this current job I have I was originally taxed although I was no where near earning enough to be taxed. I now changed the tax code and tried to get my tax back. However, I had two jobs that were payed cash in hand. May I imply these were very casual jobs. The hours and shifts were not fixed and I will emphasize once again, I was no where near earning enough to be even filling out a self-assessment form or paying tax, and yet for some reason this ended up on my door. My ex-employers do and still pay tax, and I even gave them my National Insurance to fill out any tax related forms that they needed to fill out. I am full time student, in full time education. I will be in huge amount of debt from university starting from September as my loans would be sky high. I don't deserve this. So what do I do? Surely the majority of teenagers had a part time job like me, and I don't see them being sent a self assessment!? None of my friends could help me as they themselves have not been in this situation before. I have exams which I should be concentrating on to get me to university, and guarantee myself a real proper job. So what do I do? Should I fill this out anyway?

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    It seems you had a job for which you were enrolled for PAYE, so tax was paid on these earnings ,though because of emergency tax coding , you would have expected a total tax refund . But on top of this you had jobs which paid cash in hand ,which the tax authorities appear to be aware of -- and so naturally , they expected you to inform them of these earnings via a self assessment return. It might well be that even with these additional earnings , you still earned too little to be taxed on , but they don't know that . As far as they are concerned , you had undeclared earnings and you are an adult responsible for your own tax affairs.So they expect you to deal with it . Contact the tax office , admit your ignorance and discuss the position with your tax inspector:then fill out the necessary forms --- they ain't monsters , but you don't really want to get on the wrong side of them.

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It seems you had a job for which you were enrolled for PAYE, so tax was paid on these earnings ,though because of emergency tax coding , you would have expected a total tax refund . But on top of this you had jobs which paid cash in hand ,which the tax authorities appear to be aware of -- and so naturally , they expected you to inform them of these earnings via a self assessment return. It might well be that even with these additional earnings , you still earned too little to be taxed on , but they don't know that . As far as they are concerned , you had undeclared earnings and you are an adult responsible for your own tax affairs.So they expect you to deal with it . Contact the tax office , admit your ignorance and discuss the position with your tax inspector:then fill out the necessary forms --- they ain't monsters , but you don't really want to get on the wrong side of them.

hoarsema...

If they've asked you to submit a return then that is what you must do. Simple as that. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have to pay any more tax, indeed it could result in a refund

champer

If they've asked you to submit a return then that is what you must do. Simple as that. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have to pay any more tax, indeed it could result in a refund

champer

Phone the Inland Revenue or whatever it's called these days. Trust me, they can be very helpful and are prepared to listen to your problem.

Gary Crant

Get your Government Gateway ID and password (takes about a week) and fill in your forms online. It's no biggie, and you may even get a refund.

Pauline

Get your Government Gateway ID and password (takes about a week) and fill in your forms online. It's no biggie, and you may even get a refund.

Pauline

Phone the Inland Revenue or whatever it's called these days. Trust me, they can be very helpful and are prepared to listen to your problem.

Gary Crant

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