SMP after tax?

[MillyStar]

can anyone help me please I need to know roughly how much smp I will get after tax etc per month

I got paid on fri but 2 weeks money was stil 90% of my wage, I've got about a week to make an arrangement with my old bank who I owe a lot of money to and I need to tell them my income and expenditure today!

Not sure what my tax code is, there's nothing special about my job I'm just a secretary on 15.5k a year

Thanks for any help xx

My MIL worked out that when it goes to just SMP that I should only be paying a couple of quid towards NI.
Sorry, can't give exact figures as I can't find the piece of paper with all of it on. But it worked out that I shouldn't be paying tax just NI when SMP kicks in.

Thank you that's a massive help I'll just knock a tennor a week off to be safe x

Be careful doing that as I was charged tax based on my yearly earnings but then got a massive tax rebate a year later. I was not impressed by this approach but was told by the tax people that that's just the way it is.

My MIL did say that if from the first payslip it hasn't changed I can contact HMRC and get it changed. She is an account so that's why I had asked her to work it out for me.

Rhubarb is right your tax will be deducted but you may get a rebate later. I didn't know oh could arrange with hmrc to stop deduction of tax but your employer definitely wont.do.this automatically.

How is the tax worked out? Would it still be the full 20%?

well when i worked before dc1, the tax was worked out as normal, so you had your personal tax allowance (which most companies pro rata to a monthly figure if you are paid monthly) and then it was 20% after that (progressing to higher tax rate bands as applicable).

i also think the rebate depends on whether you go back to work, and where your SMP falls within the tax year. because it would be possible for someone to have SMP and normal salary in one tax year that takes them above the personal tax allowance and then not be eligible to a rebate. but i don't think this applies to the OP from the sounds of it.

hth

I am still on SAP (adoption leave) and don't pay any tax. This maybe because my adoption leave fell over the end of the tax year, but on speaking to other women in my company, none of them paid tax from when their leave crossed the tax years (SMP). Does that make sense? I don't know if this is the norm though.