Not having a pop but wouldnt he and his partner be better doing Supermarket or similar work, surely it would take their joint incomes to over £20k. Tell me to mind my own business if you like ?Having now submitted his 2018/19 tax return my lad is a bit disappointed to find that because his self-employed earning were less than 50% of his total earnings for that year - he does not qualify for any grant relating to his self-employment. The frustrating (to say the least) aspect of it is that his self-employed income was 42% of his total...of £12,500 for that year...
As I told him - it may seem unfair that many earning a lot more than him in will get a grant of up to £2500 a month, but because he earns 'not a lot' he gets nothing. Well - as this isn't a benefit scheme - it's scheme to compensate for loss of earnings and to keep the heads of the self-employed above water. And they have to make some cut-off. But that cut-off is actually quite a hard one for him to accept as he worked very hard that year for the £5k self-employed income and he is upset that it is not being recognised by the government in their scheme.
That said - due to their zero earnings at the moment - and nothing through the grant scheme - he and his partner should get a reasonable amount through UC to compensate - he should find out this coming week - and they've had a 33% reduction in their Council Tax bill for the coming year. And then of course there is the ever benevolent Bank of MaD which may well have to step in with a rescue package
Of course he is not so hard hit as the group of those who left employment within the last tax year, do not have an employer to furlough them - and do not have a self-employed tax return on which HMRC can base a grant. Now that is really tough.
I thought he was a musician, I may be wrong forgive me if that is not the case.
Quite probably - but he was on track for a really good year this year as he had just now got himself established and had a load of tours booked in. Looked like averaging 15 shows a month at say £150-£200 a show plus another £1000 or so a month from his employed club work.
He is but no longer trying to make it with the band. He does club promotions and dj’ing for employed and show/gig rep’ing for self-employed - getting to venues before the artist/band to make sure the venue is all sorted and all is ready for band arriving.
He is looking into what he might do if tours do not start up and clubs do not reopen in some fashion October-time. But the performing arts sector is not dead. It will come back. Bands and others will tour in some shape or form, venues and clubs will reopen.
I submitted 2 claims through the system last week, no problems
If you are already registered for online submissions and as previous post said have your UTR number it should work
Scarily their calculations and mine matched
He is certainly looking into what he might do if it looks like things might not open back up for a while. At the moment he's furloughed from his employment and getting a bit through UC. He's also spending the time he doesn't normally have to put together some music to release - he sees himself as Sheffield's answer to Calvin Harris...Note - Calvin Harris net worth $240million (my lad has a bit to go - but he might as well aim for the stars
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