All Discussions Tagged 'tax' - Harringay online2024-03-29T15:12:04Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=tax&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAny idea how to get through to the Council tax department?tag:harringayonline.com,2023-02-12:844301:Topic:15280042023-02-12T07:51:58.113ZParkhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Park
<p>I need them to add some discounts to my account, but they've not replied to my emails in over a year. I am trying to avoid ringing them as I find their phoneline inaccessible. </p>
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<p>Any hints? I will be owed quite a bit of backpay as the discount should have been applied over a year ago. </p>
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<p>It would be nice if Haringey were less incompetent over things like this. </p>
<p>I need them to add some discounts to my account, but they've not replied to my emails in over a year. I am trying to avoid ringing them as I find their phoneline inaccessible. </p>
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<p>Any hints? I will be owed quite a bit of backpay as the discount should have been applied over a year ago. </p>
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<p>It would be nice if Haringey were less incompetent over things like this. </p> Have Your Say - Council Budget Consultation 2021-2022tag:harringayonline.com,2021-01-01:844301:Topic:13720682021-01-01T11:32:49.206ZGuyhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Guy975
<p>Comment on Early Ideas for Saving Proposals by Thursday 14 January 2021.</p>
<p><span>Cabinet will meet in February 2021 to recommend a budget to Full Council</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/policies-and-strategies/your-haringey-your-future">https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/policies-and-strategies/your-haringey-your-future</a><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></p>
<p>Comment on Early Ideas for Saving Proposals by Thursday 14 January 2021.</p>
<p><span>Cabinet will meet in February 2021 to recommend a budget to Full Council</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/policies-and-strategies/your-haringey-your-future">https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/policies-and-strategies/your-haringey-your-future</a><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></p> Using higher council tax rates to reduce the number of vacant properties?tag:harringayonline.com,2019-01-04:844301:Topic:11429752019-01-04T09:15:57.713ZMichael Andersonhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/17bathgate
<p>Something that Haringey could be looking at?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-46753012">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-46753012</a></p>
<p>And a little more detail here</p>
<p><a href="https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/latest-news/clamp-down-on-empty-homes-proposed/">https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/latest-news/clamp-down-on-empty-homes-proposed/</a></p>
<p>Something that Haringey could be looking at?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-46753012">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-46753012</a></p>
<p>And a little more detail here</p>
<p><a href="https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/latest-news/clamp-down-on-empty-homes-proposed/">https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/latest-news/clamp-down-on-empty-homes-proposed/</a></p> Judgement day … on Magistrates and LBHtag:harringayonline.com,2015-04-30:844301:Topic:7474432015-04-30T13:39:08.208ZClive Carterhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/CliveCarter
<p>THIS MORNING, with other members of the public, I attended the High Court for the Hearing of <em>The Queen on the application of Nicolson v Tottenham Magistrates</em> (CO/976/2014).</p>
<p>The case concerns the £125 charge that – via the Magistrate's Court – the Council levies <em>on top</em> of unpaid Council Tax. This often impacts those who are least able to pay. In any event, the charge is supposed to reflect the Council's direct and reasonable costs (only).</p>
<p>It's not supposed to…</p>
<p>THIS MORNING, with other members of the public, I attended the High Court for the Hearing of <em>The Queen on the application of Nicolson v Tottenham Magistrates</em> (CO/976/2014).</p>
<p>The case concerns the £125 charge that – via the Magistrate's Court – the Council levies <em>on top</em> of unpaid Council Tax. This often impacts those who are least able to pay. In any event, the charge is supposed to reflect the Council's direct and reasonable costs (only).</p>
<p>It's not supposed to be (in accounting terminology) a <em>profit</em> centre. Though I did not hear it today, this could also be expressed such that, the charge ought to do no more than to reflect the Council's <em>marginal</em> costs (i.e. the extra, or incremental costs), rather than somehow amortising some of the fixed costs and ongoing overheads of a whole department.</p>
<p>One fellow member of the public – whose knowledge of the mechanising of the process is much better than mine – suggested that the actual, direct, costs could be as little as 83p/claim (more information, if and when it comes to hand).</p>
<p>The Judicial Review was brought by the Rev. Paul Nicolson and was heard in Court 3 of the Royal Courts of Justice before Mrs Justice Andrews.</p>
<p>Reverend Nicolson had asked for a breakdown of the £125 charge.</p>
<p>In respect of an 'explanation' eventually offered, the Judge used the word (amongst other pithy description), <em>waffle.</em></p>
<p>A distinction is drawn between costs reasonably incurred and incurring reasonable costs (or, kind-of-cost vs. level-of-cost). There was a claim that there had been an explanatory schedule on paper back in 2010 ... but that could not now be found.</p>
<p>At one point, the Judge suggested that Magistrates were the only thing that stood in the way of the Council charging whatever it liked.</p>
<p>Although Justice Andrews reserved judgement, she expects to be able to deliver it next week. The Court's decision could have wide ramifications.</p>
<p>More about the case <em><strong><a href="http://www.taxpayersagainstpoverty.org.uk/nicolson-v-tottenham-magistrates-haringey-council-10-am-30th-april-2015-royal-courts-of-justice-wc2a-2ll/" target="_blank">here</a><br/></strong></em></p>
<p><em>and here:</em></p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22792%3Achallenge-to-p125-cost-of-council-tax-summons-reaches-high-court&catid=56&Itemid=24" target="_blank">Local government lawyer</a></em></strong></p>
<p></p> Accountant wanted for small businesstag:harringayonline.com,2013-08-22:844301:Topic:5253962013-08-22T14:49:38.208Zabstractjuzhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/JustinOwen
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>My little business (one person, home based) is looking for an accountant to prepare and file company accounts and self-assessment returns. I currently handle my own VAT.</p>
<p>I'm a fairly low maintenance business but I am looking to grow. For now, I'm just after someone reliable to keep HMRC out of my life, answer occasional tax-related questions and to offer advice as and when.</p>
<p>I've found a few leads here on HoL from previous posts - but I wanted to see if anyone else…</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>My little business (one person, home based) is looking for an accountant to prepare and file company accounts and self-assessment returns. I currently handle my own VAT.</p>
<p>I'm a fairly low maintenance business but I am looking to grow. For now, I'm just after someone reliable to keep HMRC out of my life, answer occasional tax-related questions and to offer advice as and when.</p>
<p>I've found a few leads here on HoL from previous posts - but I wanted to see if anyone else had turned up in the last few months.</p>
<p>Please feel free to pass me your contact info or make a recommendation.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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<p></p> No council tax paid on Wards corner by Grainger and TFL since 2008. Can this be true?tag:harringayonline.com,2013-05-30:844301:Topic:4945872013-05-30T17:18:31.648Zclydehttps://harringayonline.com/profile/clyde
<p align="left" dir="ltr">Wards Corner, N15 empty buildings.</p>
<p align="left" dir="ltr">I have been told by my neighbour that Haringey Council have failed to collect any council tax on any of the empty building on the Wards Corner site when they could have claimed thousands of pounds in back revenue for the people of Haringey, how can this be true?</p>
<p align="left" dir="ltr">The law was changed back in 2008 allowing councils to claim tax on empty property, thus provide an income and to…</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">Wards Corner, N15 empty buildings.</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">I have been told by my neighbour that Haringey Council have failed to collect any council tax on any of the empty building on the Wards Corner site when they could have claimed thousands of pounds in back revenue for the people of Haringey, how can this be true?</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">The law was changed back in 2008 allowing councils to claim tax on empty property, thus provide an income and to encourage occupancy of the buildings. This would be over 5 years of lost tax revenue to Haringey.</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">This would mean that Grainger a company with over 2 billion Pounds of assets appears not to have paid tax on the 2 two empty shop units by Seven Sisters Underground station and hasn't paid on all those empty homes in Suffield Road, n15. They surely must owe the rate payers of Haringey thousand of pounds at the time when we have to tolerate sacking teachers, closing day centres for older persons or youth clubs.</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">Plus TFL with approximately 10,000 sqm of space at the corner of the High Road and Seven Sisters Road i.e. prime retail space should owe money.</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">It sounds absolutely appalling that a local Tottenham priest is fined for non payment of his Council tax withheld in protect against the cuts but a multi billion pound companies and TFL get off scot free and maybe their payment would have avoided some cuts.</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">How can the Council claim they need money when they allow such terrible tax evasion, can anyone tell me more details of these Wards Corner empty buildings and the tax situation?</p>
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<p> </p> How to pay 10% tax on £100,000 incometag:harringayonline.com,2013-01-06:844301:Topic:4460752013-01-06T22:15:41.103ZJohn McMullanhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/bogan72
<p>First, you need to be outside of PAYE and you need to be a <a href="http://www.pcg.org.uk/cms/index.php" target="_blank">freelancer</a>. Essentially you are a one person limited liability company that contracts out your services on a short term (less than two years) basis to people willing to pay for them. Everything from computer programming to working on an oil rig can be done this way. It seems it is only the public sector that will pay managers this way.</p>
<p>Assuming that your company…</p>
<p>First, you need to be outside of PAYE and you need to be a <a href="http://www.pcg.org.uk/cms/index.php" target="_blank">freelancer</a>. Essentially you are a one person limited liability company that contracts out your services on a short term (less than two years) basis to people willing to pay for them. Everything from computer programming to working on an oil rig can be done this way. It seems it is only the public sector that will pay managers this way.</p>
<p>Assuming that your company is paid £100,000 per annum for your services, you could do it like this:</p>
<p>Pay yourself £8,000 PAYE. This would incur £49 of employee NI and £72 of employer NI so your total tax paid so far is £121.</p>
<p>Pay yourself £42,000 as a dividend, on which you will pay £2,742 tax, bringing your total tax so far to £2,863.</p>
<p>Pay the remaining £50,000 into your pension, tax free. This leaves your total income tax unchanged at £2,863 however you will have to pay corporation tax on your dividends.</p>
<p>Pay your small company corporation tax of 20% on the £40,000 "profit". This takes your total tax bill to £10,863 which, forgive my provocative headline, is closer to 11%.</p>
<p>This works great if you are about to retire in a few years and don't need all of your income to support yourself.</p>
<p>There are companies out there that will offer you up to 91% of your pay and I'm not sure how they do it but they're brazen enough to have pretty snazzy <a href="http://www.best-pay.co.uk/" target="_blank">websites</a> so I presume that HMRC are OK with it.</p>
<p>If you're inside PAYE then fear not, you can still do pretty well by making a massive voluntary contribution to your pension. On £100,000 salary you would pay £35,221 in personal income tax (not including your employer's NI contribution on your behalf of £12,768). However if you contribute £30,000 to your pension, the government would allow you to claim back the tax that you had paid on that contribution, which in this case was of course £12,000. This takes your total tax bill back down to £23,221 which is 23% (the original figure was 35%).</p>
<p>The key is, you have to be wealthy and not need that income yet. Imagine if you had no mortgage and your children were all grown up and had left home. Think how cheaply you could live then and you'd probably be ready to retire in a few years anyway.</p>
<p>That said, there are <a href="http://pensionsrelease4u.com/SIPP_Release_Pension.htm" target="_blank">companies</a> out there that will essentially loan you a percentage of your pension (up to 50%) in exchange for getting their hands on it, tax free, when you retire.</p> Claims that a quarter of council tax is going on gold-plated council pensionstag:harringayonline.com,2010-07-21:844301:Topic:1660842010-07-21T17:47:53.365ZClive Carterhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/CliveCarter
<i>A QUARTER of all council tax is going to meet the soaring cost of the gold-plated pensions of town hall workers, it was revealed yesterday<br />
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If this is true, is it a possible area in which the council could effect savings? (For the avoidance of doubt, this is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135403/Town-hall-pensions-eat-quarter-council-tax.html" target="_blank">a story</a> in today's <i>Daily Mail</i> newspaper.)
<i>A QUARTER of all council tax is going to meet the soaring cost of the gold-plated pensions of town hall workers, it was revealed yesterday<br />
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If this is true, is it a possible area in which the council could effect savings? (For the avoidance of doubt, this is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135403/Town-hall-pensions-eat-quarter-council-tax.html" target="_blank">a story</a> in today's <i>Daily Mail</i> newspaper.) Why is the Council Tax being collected over 10 months?tag:harringayonline.com,2010-03-22:844301:Topic:1452312010-03-22T22:20:23.525ZWightmanPaulhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/WightmanPaul
New bill arrived, 0% increase but the payments have increased - why? Payment period April - January -10 months, why? Earlier payment, more interest for the Council? Lower collection costs? Increase to 11 payments again to get a 10% increase without an increase in monthly amounts? I may have missed it but was anyone consulted? Was it mentioned at area assemblies?
New bill arrived, 0% increase but the payments have increased - why? Payment period April - January -10 months, why? Earlier payment, more interest for the Council? Lower collection costs? Increase to 11 payments again to get a 10% increase without an increase in monthly amounts? I may have missed it but was anyone consulted? Was it mentioned at area assemblies? Can you reclaim you council tax?tag:harringayonline.com,2008-04-28:844301:Topic:400082008-04-28T10:00:56.300ZAnettehttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Anette
Just saw this on <a href="http://www.moneysavingexpert.com">www.moneysavingexpert.com</a> re. reclaiming your council tax, and thought it might be worth posting it:<br />
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<a href="http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change">http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change</a>
Just saw this on <a href="http://www.moneysavingexpert.com">www.moneysavingexpert.com</a> re. reclaiming your council tax, and thought it might be worth posting it:<br />
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<a href="http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change">http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change</a>