How the Seafarers' Earnings Deduction works, the 365-day qualifying period, eligible voyages, and a worked example of how it can reduce a merchant navy worker's UK income tax to nil.
Clergy stipends are taxed as employment income, but a minister's rent-free house is usually tax-free while a housing allowance paid in cash is fully taxable. Here is how clergy tax works in 2026.
Self-employed mobile car valeters carry water tanks, pressure washers and detailing products between jobs. Full worked example on £25,000 turnover and van conversion costs.
Self-employed mobile hairdressers drive between clients, carry their own kit and often work from a home base too. Full worked example on £26,000 turnover, mileage claims and what counts as a deductible tool.
Mobile locksmiths run a van-based emergency call-out business with significant stock and tool investment. Full worked example on £45,000 turnover, capital allowances, and what a locksmith actually keeps after tax.
Self-employed notaries public and process servers travel to clients and courts, with specific professional indemnity and Faculty Office fee questions. How 2026/27 Self Assessment applies.
Driving for Uber, delivering for Deliveroo and renting out a spare room on Airbnb at the same time still means one Self Assessment return. How to combine multiple gig income streams for 2026/27.
If you have two jobs, HMRC usually gives your Personal Allowance to your main job (tax code 1257L) and taxes your second job entirely at basic rate (BR) from the first pound. Here is how to check and fix it in 2026/27.
Whether you're a session musician, wedding band member or solo gigging artist, here's how UK Income Tax and expenses work for irregular music income in 2026/27.
Mystery shopping fees, reimbursed purchases and expenses are treated differently by HMRC. How the £1,000 trading allowance applies to mystery shopper income in 2026/27.
The 2026/27 tax year runs to 5 April 2027. Several frozen thresholds are due to start unfreezing around then, and some measures announced in recent Budgets take effect from April 2027. Here's what to watch for while there's still time to plan.
A teenager's paper round earnings raise real questions about tax, National Insurance and the trading allowance. How 2026/27 rules actually apply to young and casual delivery workers.
