What kind of jobs have to be taxed?

BogMonkey

For instance, a person who goes door to door asking people if they want their grass mowed or windows washed or whatever, would they need to pay tax? Or another example: someone decides to pay me €20 to help them move some stuff out of their attic, I'm guessing I am not obliged to pay tax for that, but what determines which jobs are taxed and which aren't? I will be busy with college next year, and I'm planning on earning the bear minimum I'll need to survive by doing some odd programming jobs for my brother who runs a web development company. Does this kinda thing need to be taxed? Its not going to be a consistent job, more like I help my brother out (i.e. help him write a script that needs to be created for a site hes working on) whenever I am out of money which could be once a week, once a month etc., and could be varying amounts of money depending on how much work goes into it.

danthefan

Is your brother going to actually employ you or just give you cash?

srsly78

All income is taxed. However if you earn very little then there should be very little (or even zero) tax to pay.

If he gives you cash then this is fraud. Also pointless because that would be cash from his own pocket, not the companies. if he pays you "through the books" of the company he will likely have to pay a very small amount of employers prsi on your wage but that's it (assuming your tax credits cover your liability).

Technically paying cash for cutting the grass is also fraud, but it's hardly worth the taxman investigating because the recipient does not have a net liability. If the recipient was however operating an industrial grass cutting operation (ie making loads of money) for cash then that would be a different story

Mrs OBumble

srsly78 wrote: »

Technically paying cash for cutting the grass is also fraud,

Good answer, thanks.

One slight clarification: it's not the act of paying cash that makes it fraud. An employer can pay in cash, rather than by cheque or direct-deposit, and still not be committing fraud. It only becomes fraud if this payment isn't reported to Revenue, and appropriate taxes paid.

I thinkt that there are some circumstances (small one-off jobs) where any employer does not have to operate the PAYE system - but I could have my countries mixed up.

Unregistered.

Suppose you have a 9-5 job and then on one occasion you paint a relatives's house. They pay you €100 for this.
Am I right in thinking that the €100 is liable for tax at the same rate which you pay in your 9-5 job? E.g. if you are on the lower rate, then the €100 should be taxed at the lower rate, unless the €100 brings your gross income over the cut-off point for the higher rate.

Nody

Unregistered. wrote: »

Suppose you have a 9-5 job and then on one occasion you paint a relatives's house. They pay you €100 for this.
Am I right in thinking that the €100 is liable for tax at the same rate which you pay in your 9-5 job? E.g. if you are on the lower rate, then the €100 should be taxed at the lower rate, unless the €100 brings your gross income over the cut-off point for the higher rate.

The 100 EUR is added to your yearly salary and taxed as if you were paid by your normal job (with what ever implications that bring on your tax, the social security to be paid in etc. by your relatives etc.).

Unregistered.

Nody wrote: »

The 100 EUR is added to your yearly salary and taxed as if you were paid by your normal job (with what ever implications that bring on your tax, the social security to be paid in etc. by your relatives etc.).

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