Gross or Net salary

[richie_rohan]

Hi All,
I have a query regarding points to be claimed on previous earning.

My Company gives me a Groos salary for XXXX pounds.
In my salary slip I have a tax free allowance component of XXX pounds.

To claim Tax free allowance I submit few bills like food, rent, travel.

So my Taxable amounts comes down i.e. Gross - Tax free allowance.
And the net pay is taxable amount - tax.

Now the issue is if I take net pay or taxable amount I dont get sufficient points to get through HSMP.

Can I claim points on Gross? Or please suggest which amount to be claimed.

PS: P-60 has Taxable pay and not the gross pay amount.

Regards,
Richie

[hsmphsmp]

Many posts have said that as long as the amount is declared in salary slip, you can claim it. But your tax doc and sal slip has to match one to one till the last digit for to be sure to claim the point. I have read cases where there was some few pounds different and CW rejected. Best way to come out of this is to use bank statement, sal slip and letter from employer all matching for the gross and net amounts exactly. i did this and got approval. Also make sure you don't claim exactly from start to finish of tax year, start some where in between a tax year and end in the middle of next tax year. You can explicitly say that the tax document will not match as it will cover for some of the months which you are not claiming for. I did this.

One last thing...I am not sure...If your salary slip says explicilty that some of the amount is non taxable (exact wordings) I am not sure if the case wroker will consider those amounts. If it simply says allowance then it is fine. there is no way CW can find out whether all amount is taxed or not, since the amount in the tax document is for also for few months for which you are not going to claim and so not submitting the sal slips for those months

Use a excel sheet and show month by month how to match sal slip, bank stmt and letter from employer (montly breakup neeeded in letter to be sure). I did this..infact new guidelines have this by hsmp procedure itslf..check the faq section in workingintheuk home off site.

I leave it to others to comment if anything else to be corrected or added.

[gorajim]

1. The net amount should reflect as paid into your bank.
2. Based on your salary slips, the CW will add up the Gross Amount for the 12 months, match that to the country of claim, determine the band, etc., and award points.

Please refer to the CW Guidelines for further info on this.