Who can I talk to about taxes?

[hellokittymania]

Who would I talk to if I need someone to explain what taxes I need to pay and go over my bank statements with me? I have looked at the HMRC website but I don't understand the information on it very well.

For example, I am sent a certain amount of money from a family member each month, do I need to pay tax on it? Do you pay tax on what you have in your savings account? When do you need to pay tax?

I don't receive benefits, so the money from family really really helps.

I'm no expert but i know that:

You can earn £10,600 a year before paying tax and £3,000 a year on top of this as a 'gift'.

A family member can only put money toward your living costs tax free if you are in fulltime education.

finding your local citizens advice bureau is your best bet for advice about this.

Number, oh no, :( I think I've been breaking the rules by accident. Is there anyone I can sit down with her can explain everything. And I have no family in the UK who can help me to file my taxes. I have a clearer, but she isn't from the UK and doesn't speak much English. I speak other languages. So that isn't much help.

I am doing an online two year degree, but because it's online, I don't think it's considered full-time. I remember with the council tax, I was unable to claim council tax reduction as a student. I get a discount because I live alone only.

Your local citizens advice bureau is your best bet, they are set up to advise you on things like this.

OK, because it's taking so much time to work on basic things, I haven't started on benefits or worked out how to get a social worker Or anything else, just social workers help with this kind of thing? From what I've heard, social workers can be either very good or useless.

My mother can only do so much from Florida.

I'm guessing it depends on the social worker. Your GP shoudl be able to tell you how to get in contact with social services.

Number that's the next step on my list, find a GP and register with one. When I do though I will ask them to help. It realLy does take me triple the time to do very basic things though, very frustrating. And when I ask people, they tell me I should already know. I wouldn't be asking if I already knew. I do Google things, but sometimes I just don't understand what I'm reading.

That sounds like a good first step.
Please be very careful and don't offer your bank statements to random people on mumsnet to look at, you could get scamed. Your local citizens advice bureau will help you with this.

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If you are in the UK the citizens advice bureau should be able to either help or point you at someone who can.

The CAB website has some information on it. It also includes references to other organisations. Your best bet might be phoning HMRC helpline to ask.

I would have a look through their website section to get familiar with the terms.

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/tax/

I do not know the level of income or savings you have. The Low income tax reform group has information on taxes in general and students in particular- the student pages have a guide to types of student

www.litrg.org.uk

www.taxguideforstudents.org.uk/tax-essentials