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[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Still an extra £2400 spread across the year though no? Compared to taking 20% from the total income.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, but you wouldn't be able to rent anywhere for that. If rent was cheaper, then it would be viable to live off 12750 for sure.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

What I mean is that you are not taxed on the first £12750 you earn if you are working minimum wage full time, you only pay it on the roughly £6000 you've made after that, which works out to only about £1700 in income tax and national insurance.

So in the example above, they'd have more income than suggested.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago
[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

Is that better than being a regular level of correct?

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sort of - if you earnt 13k then you would be taxed down to 10k.

If you earnt 12750, then you aren't taxed, but assuming rent at 800PCM you would have £3000 to live off for the year, which once you factor in heating bills if you use it, travel, council tax, London prices of goods, and so on, is not very much.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Sort of - if you earnt 13k then you would be taxed down to 10k.

If you earned 13k , then you'd only pay tax on the £250 you've earned above the personal allowance no?

As far as I understand it, it's not that you don't pay taxes so long as you make less than the personal allowance, it's that the first £12750 you make is untaxed regardless of how much you make until you make more than £100k.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Oh shit yeah

So true

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