Min wage tax question

NeVeR

My friend is on minimum wage and only work 16 to 21 hours a week. What tax should she be paying ? She's been there about 6 months and is bing taxed 42%

I told her to go to revenue office and get sorted.

But how much tax back will she get ?

Thanks

BoB_BoT

NeVeR wrote: »

My friend is on minimum wage and only work 16 to 21 hours a week. What tax should she be paying ? She's been there about 6 months and is bing taxed 42%

I told her to go to revenue office and get sorted.

But how much tax back will she get ?

Thanks

Sounds like she's being emergency taxed, this happens when the employer doesn't have all the necessary forms from the employee. Tell her to get onto her employer to see what they need. She'll be refunded what she shouldn't have been paying by the tax office. If the employer can't tell her why she's still on emergency tax, she needs to go to the nearest tax office and find out why.

NeVeR

Just checked a calculator online and it says she should only be paying €3 / week tax, Does that sound right ?..

namenotavailablE

Your friend is almost certainly being taxed at the emergency rate as per the previous poster, assuming that she has no other job which is using up all of her tax credits.
She should contact her local tax office and ask for a certificate of tax credits to be sent to herself and her employer- she might need to have the employer's tax number for that purpose.

Whatever tax she has paid to date can be refunded in a later payslip when the tax credits are sorted out.
On the minimum wage, assuming weekly gross earnings of approx €155, she would only pay the Universal Social Charge. She can check this with my net pay calculator