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I wrote at the start of the year about my parlous experience with the British tax and student loan authorities, whilst resulted in me being on the hook for several thousands of pounds in the previous tax year. My goal is to reclaim almost every single penny of that… …but the bastards won’t make it easy. As a reminder: when we last left our intrepid hero (i.e., me), I had three avenues of reclamation ongoing: amending my tax return for 2024–25 UK tax year, where I had overstated my…
At the start of the year, I detailed how an error on my part, compounded by the repeated incompetence of two organs of the British state, resulted in me temporarily owing several thousands of pounds to the taxman. I’ll soon follow up with how my efforts to reclaim my ill-gotten gains have progressed, but first I want to take you on an intriguing digression. In short: after much effort, I finally got (some) of my already-paid student loan repayments credited against my tax bill. But, in the…
In the previous UK financial year (2024–25), I earnt the princely sum of £9,500 in UK-taxable income (due, in no small part, to moving abroad in the summer). This was to be all covered by my Personal Allowance of £12,500-ish per year, and so my total taxable amount should have been nil. So why—the fuck—did I just have to lend the taxman almost eight and a half thousand pounds? ‘Just get an accountant’, you say? Never! I figured out how to file my US taxes on my own, and only once did I…
