Hello 👋 I am not sure if anyone had a similar case and would be able to advise, but I will try my luck
I wish to gift my flat in Poland to my mum, and then buy a house here in UK. I live, work and rent a house in the UK. The flat in Poland is my only property. Will I need to pay any taxes in the UK for gifting the flat to my mum in Poland?
Thank you for your help!
Hi everybody, I’m hoping this is the right sub to post in. I started working a new pub job recently but also work a couple weekends a month at a wedding events company so when filling out my starter checklist I ticked that I have another job. I got my first paycheck just to see I’d been taxed (not unusual for starting a new job I guess) so I signed into the HMRC app just to see my wedding event job is not listed under employment. I emailed my boss there and he was very confused as I have a myepayewindow account and receive payslips from it so HMRC must know I am employed there (I also recently received a P60 for that job.)
It has now been about three months of me being taxed on my pay from the pub, and I’m just wondering if there’s anything I need to do. I did call HMRC but they were not very useful, they changed my tax code but I still got taxed on the paycheck I got the month after. I’m 17 and don’t know too much about this or how I can sort it out, and just for context I will say I’m also in school full time and will definitely not earn over £12,000 in a year. I added the wedding events place as an employment on HMRC personally and I guess now I’m just wondering if I will ever receive the tax money back or if I need to contact HMRC again.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
I’ve done my self assessment for 25/26, I’ve got £670ish to pay in tax but I’m back in full time work PAYE. I selected pay through PAYE in 27/28, cannot see anywhere on my HMRC login that this is confirmed.
Will I get evidence and confirmation of this selection?
Thank you!
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Need honest advice: UK LTD vs US LLC (Stripe, taxes, structure confusion)
Hey everyone 🤝
I need some real advice from people who’ve actually been through this.
I’m from Pakistan and running an ecom marketing agency. I registered a UK LTD around 3–4 years ago. Every year I’ve been doing the filings properly, but to be honest, most of my actual payments were going through my wise personal account, so the UK company didn’t have much real activity.
Recently my Wise accounts got closed, which forced me to rethink everything and fix my structure properly.
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What I’m doing now:
Moving to Stripe for payments (around 4–5% fees) bcz of wise account closure.
Connecting everything to company account (because no option left)
Keeping everything clean, recorded, and compliant
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Where I’m confused:
With a UK LTD:
Around 19–25% corporation tax on profits
Plus compliance, accounting, etc.
Now that everything will be properly recorded through Stripe and bank, I’m honestly not comfortable with that level of tax, and I also don’t want any issues later.
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What I’ve been seeing online:
Chat gpt says:
Open a US LLC
It's 0% tax (if you’re non-US and no US activity)
You only pay tax in Pakistan
But I’m not sure how true or safe that is long-term.
Is it true? 0% as a non resident? I only pay tax in Pakistan?
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My main questions:
Should I just continue with my UK LTD and accept the tax as the cost of doing things properly? Honestly I'm not comfortable.
Or should I switch to a US LLC now before things scale further?
Is it practical to:
Open a US LLC
Move operations there (open new stripe/banks)
Then dissolve the UK LTD later?
Stripe setup
Bank accounts
Compliance
Benefits
Challenges
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My goal:
Clean and compliant setup
No future legal/tax issues
Reasonable tax efficiency (not trying to do anything shady)
Smooth operations (payments, banking, scaling)
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Right now I feel stuck between:
UK LTD → higher tax but more straightforward
US LLC → potentially lower tax but more setup + uncertainty
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I was thinking to continue using UK LTD stripe and other accounts without worrying and later on before filing I can open a LLC and dissolve the UK ltd? Will there be any issues if I do this? Or what approach I should take?
Would really appreciate honest advice from experienced people, especially those running similar setups from Pakistan or remotely.
Thanks a lot 🙌
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can explain the tax I paid on my April pay + bonus that I just got paid. The tax paid seems higher than expected and I'm not sure if this is because the tax calculation as PAYE has pushed me into the higher rate tax band based on assumptions about future earnings.
Last year (25/26) my pay was £41,500 and I received a bonus of 20% which was paid today, 24th April 2026.
I calculate this bonus to be £8,300.
My pay has increased this year to £42,662 (an increase of 2.8%). My monthly pay is therefore £3,556.
My total pay for this month is therefore £8,300 + £3,556 = £11,855, and my normal pay for the rest of the year would be £3,556.
The total tax that I've paid this month is £3,603, which is higher than I would have expected to pay.
Can anyone help show how the tax calculation should be done on this given that it's the start of the tax year?
Does this bonus and tax payment assume I'm in the higher tax rate band, and could I have overpaid?
Let me know if anything is missing.