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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5598839" data-attributes="member: 42582">S'mon, thanks for the reply.OK. If I'm making proper sense of this, in Australia that would be called the &quot;tax free threshold&quot;. When you start a job and fill out the payroll documentation, you have to tick a box that indicates whether or not you want to claim the tax free threshold from that employer - which affects the rate at which tax is then deducted.A quick look at the ATO tax tables <a href="http://www.ato.gov.au/content/downloads/BUS00194178n10050509.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> shows that, for a more-or-less median income of $1,000 per week failure to claim the tax free threshold will take the withheld tax from a little under $200 to $280. (Naturally enough, the lower the income the more significant it is not to claim the tax free threshold, and the higher the income the less significant.)The taxfree threshold in Australia is $6,000 (before a 15% rate cuts in on income up to $35,000). A quick google of HMRC suggests that the personal allowance in the UK is around 7,000 pounds and the rate that cuts in is 20% - so failure to claim the personal allowance would certainly be more quite a bit more costly than failure to claim the tax free threshold!I've also heard that in Britain it helps to have a reference/recommendation from an &quot;esteemed&quot; person, such as a member of the armed forces.I'm not sure I can make any general comment about the expecations of Australian functionaries - sobbing can sometimes help, but isn't generally required. Getting increasingly heated (while nevertheless remaining polite) tends to be my main strategy.I don't know that I'd go that far, but it is interesting.And again with these outrageous slanders against your law lecturers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5598839, member: 42582"] S'mon, thanks for the reply. OK. If I'm making proper sense of this, in Australia that would be called the "tax free threshold". When you start a job and fill out the payroll documentation, you have to tick a box that indicates whether or not you want to claim the tax free threshold from that employer - which affects the rate at which tax is then deducted. A quick look at the ATO tax tables [url=http://www.ato.gov.au/content/downloads/BUS00194178n10050509.pdf]here[/url] shows that, for a more-or-less median income of $1,000 per week failure to claim the tax free threshold will take the withheld tax from a little under $200 to $280. (Naturally enough, the lower the income the more significant it is not to claim the tax free threshold, and the higher the income the less significant.) The taxfree threshold in Australia is $6,000 (before a 15% rate cuts in on income up to $35,000). A quick google of HMRC suggests that the personal allowance in the UK is around 7,000 pounds and the rate that cuts in is 20% - so failure to claim the personal allowance would certainly be more quite a bit more costly than failure to claim the tax free threshold! I've also heard that in Britain it helps to have a reference/recommendation from an "esteemed" person, such as a member of the armed forces. I'm not sure I can make any general comment about the expecations of Australian functionaries - sobbing can sometimes help, but isn't generally required. Getting increasingly heated (while nevertheless remaining polite) tends to be my main strategy. I don't know that I'd go that far, but it is interesting. And again with these outrageous slanders against your law lecturers! [/QUOTE]

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