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Income Tax is a tax you pay on your earnings - find out about what it is, how you pay and how to check you're paying the right amount using HMRC's tax calculator.
Income Tax is a tax you pay on your income. You do not have to pay tax on…
Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Most people pay Income Tax through PAYE. This is…
State benefits that are taxable The most common benefits that you pay…
To work out if you should be paying Income Tax, follow these steps. Add up…
You can see if you’re paying the right amount of Income Tax online. For…
You do not pay tax on your savings interest if you're on a low income.
Most people can earn some interest from their savings without paying tax…
Your allowances for earning interest before you have to pay tax on it…
You pay tax on any interest over your allowance at your usual rate of…
The way you get a refund depends on whether you paid too much tax in the…
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Your employer may offer you company shares as a reward for working for…
This gives you the option to regularly save and buy shares. If you get…
This is a savings-related share scheme where you can buy shares with your…
This gives you the option to buy up to £60,000 worth of shares from 6…
A company can offer you Enterprise Management Incentives (EMIs) if it has…
To be an employee shareholder, you must own shares in your employer’s…
You can transfer up to £20,000 of employee shares into a stocks and shares…
The ‘gain’ is the profit you make when you sell shares that have increased…
Find out how your Personal Allowance is allocated and how Income Tax and tax codes work if you have more than one job or source of income.
Personal Allowance, Income Tax rates, bands and thresholds.
Self Assessment tax returns - deadlines, who must send a tax return, penalties, corrections and returns for someone who has died.
These tables shows the distribution of tax deducted from pay (excluding pensions) by employers under the PAYE system, by industry group.
Paying tax as a student - term-time jobs, holiday jobs, overseas students, jobs abroad, overpaying tax.
Find out whether you need to pay tax on your UK income while you're living abroad - non-resident landlord scheme, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice, personal allowance of tax-free income, form R43.
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you sell shares, claiming tax relief
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