OT: A bit like SPAM, but for charity - Tube Relief 2005

Am I tax payer as a student? I didn't really understand the question so I just said I wasn't a tax payer :-/

I'd make sure you don't sit next to any Pakis carrying rucksacks or shifty looking Brazilian geezers if I were you though.

Cheers - the power of the internet, eh?

There is a disclaimer (t's + c's) on there that you have to agree to that basically says that you should take independent advice before declaring yourself a UK taxpayer. In other words, if you're on shitloads of benefits and earning £200k/year, then it's worth saying "no", rather than getting the charity an extra few quid as it might get you into a spot of bother with the IR. At least that's how I read it anyway. As a student you'd probably be ok to say "yes", as when you are working you have to pay tax. Not to worry anyway!

I certainly won't be running down any platforms, that's for sure!

I hope you get shot in the head 8 times tbh...

Students dont pay tax, the filthy bastards getting away with only paying NI!!!

Well as long as you get the money, I would donate more but I have about £9 in my current account now due to A level festivities :)

I hope you make £400

Well donate some cash then! You big tax payer man.

Even if their earnings tops the usual thresholds in any given tax year?

Scoundrels! Down with them!

You will be if you plan on doing this in one day.

Possibly a little if needs must, but the ethos of the day isn't to run around like madmen (and women) doing it in the quickest possible time, it's as an act of defiance, standing up to say "we are not afraid", that sort of thing. It's very well known that to even complete it visiting every station is a tough task, so if, on the day, it looks like things are running behind and last trains will be missed, the idea is to have a plan B and miss out sections so as to still make it to the end.

If their earnings top the usual threshholds in any given tax year, then students pay exactly the same tax as you and me - they have no exemption whatsoever !

This seems to be some sort of weird urban legend - I have no idea where it comes from. Perhaps it arose because most students don't exceed the ~£4500 of earnings required to start paying income tax ?

All i know is that when i started working I filled in a form confirming i was a student and my tax code was changed to NT (no tax) and I got a load of money back that I had already paid!

I guess the form could have been confirming I was not working all year so even though may wages took me way past the personal allowance if it was assumed I would get that 52 weeks of the year, in reailty I would only be working for about 20 weeks. Never used to read things in those days, just willingly signed them :) Although saying that I must have been pretty close to the allowance each year, but never paid any tax till I graduated.

Pah, I was better off as a student - loan money each term, cheap rent, big free overdraft and a well paid job during the holidays (due to not paying tax).

Now i'm paying back those loans/overdraft/credit card, pay more rent (although have a much nicer house) and pay shit loads of tax. Although saying that I spend far too much money on cars so i guess its my own fault I'm skint.

Yeah, me too.

But if you'd earnt more than ~£4500 in that year, then you'd have paid the ~25% income tax on every pound you'd earnt over ~£4500.

Yes, I think that's how it worked. I never started paying tax until the end of the summer, once I'd earnt more than the minimum threshold figure.