• Working and child tax credits

  Find out if you can get working or child tax credits and how to claim. If you have a tax credits overpayment find out how to challenge the decision.

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  • Benefits
  • Help on a low income
  • Before you claim tax credits
  • Help with your tax credits claim
  • Tax credits appeals

• Tax reliefs

  Information on tax reliefs, including which expenses employees can deduct from taxable earnings. The information does not cover self-employed people.

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  • Debt and money
  • Tax
  • What is taxable income

• Council tax

  Information on council tax including valuation bands, discounts and reductions, how to pay, arrears and the appeals system.

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  • Housing
  • Council tax

• Tax refunds

  Information on tax refunds, covering circumstances in which tax overpayments can be refunded including death, leaving a job and becoming unemployed.

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  • Debt and money
  • Tax

• Tax returns

  Guide to tax returns, including who needs to complete a tax return, completing the form, the deadline for returning the form and errors on the form.

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  • Debt and money
  • Tax
  • How to pay income tax

• Income tax

  Information about income tax and how it is calculated and collected.

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  • Debt and money
  • Tax
  • Income tax - how much should you pay

• Help with tax problems

  Information on help for tax problems including tax HMRC helplines, tax offices, the Revenue Adjudicator, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, professional tax advisers and tax charities.

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  • Debt and money
  • Tax
  • Problems with tax

• Tax

  • In:
  • Debt and money
  • Income tax - how much should you pay
  • What is taxable income
  • How to pay income tax
  • Tax refunds
  • Problems with tax

• Council tax for students

  Explains the rules about students and council tax. Covers proving you are exempt, sharing accommodation with people who aren't students, time off between courses and problems affecting postgraduate students.

  • In:
  • Housing
  • Renting a home
  • Student housing
  • Students in private rented accommodation

• Income tax rates

  Covers the percentage rates of income tax for the current year and the previous four years and explains how to calculate the tax.

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  • Debt and money
  • Tax
  • Income tax - how much should you pay

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