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Hi John,John wrote:If your suggestion is that the calculation is as simple as £50000 @ 40% = £20000 income tax liability ... well thankfully, no way!
Have a look at this webpage on the HMRC website. You will be entitled to a Personal Allowance of £5035, so that amount of income is effectively tax free.
Then the next £2150 is taxed at 10%, the next £31150 @ 22%, and only after that is income taxed at 40%.
Pateketu, it is the standard HSMP Guidance for applicants over 28 years. You can obtain that from http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/workin ... o28_06.docpateketu wrote:lanwarrior, can you give a pointer to the document you are talking about
Just looking at the income tax system in isolation, there are no allowances for children! And that is nothing to do with your immigration status, it applies to everyone.But what I am trying to find out is if I CAN get the standard child tax deduction, mainly for the Child Tax Credit, which is 10% since I have a child. But it seems that HSMP applicant can NOT get this benefit.
This is interesting. Is there any way I can find the complete list? I just want to be 1000% sure that if I claim some public funds benefit while in UK, I won't jeopardize my HSMP benefit and get kicked out of UK. Not that I want to become a leech in UK, but it's hard to know what I can or can't claim.John wrote:
However you may have noticed that the definition of Public Funds is quite a limited list, and it certainly does not include all possible types of "benefits" from the UK Government. Accordingly, for example, it is totally OK to send a child to a state school, and make full use of the NHS. It is also the case that the definition of Public Funds includes nothing that is maternity related and thus all benefits relating to maternity can be claimed with no problem at all.
On that page the only mention of 10% is for the Starting Rate .... the first £2150 of taxable income being charged at 10%. Nothing at all to do with Child Tax Credit.I got the 10% child tax credit from the link that you provided
Let's put it this way, on the application form there is a question that reads something like "Are you subject to immigration control?" and if both you and your spouse/partner answer "Yes" to that then you will not tend to get the Child Tax Credits. And if the answer is wrongly "No" and you end with getting that benefit, well not recommended .... a fraudulent claim ..... not recommended .... liable to end up in Court being prosecuted! Now I fully realise you were jesting about that, but seriously, not a good idea! Especially as when you try to renew your UK visa you might encounter serious problems.But now that I think about it, how would UK Immigration know if I claim Child tax credit?
That's something that I would never know, unless pointed out by someone who live in UK and have filed tax.John wrote:Let's put it this way, on the application form there is a question that reads something like "Are you subject to immigration control?" and if both you and your spouse/partner answer "Yes" to that then you will not tend to get the Child Tax Credits.