The Fag FLAG lol

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For the last few years some of us have had considerably less than that to live on. I've never found the benefits system particularly accessible, so I just try and get on with it and keep on paying taxes, National Insurance and NHS charges for prescriptions, dental treatment and regular visits to the optician. If I could afford to rent a place to live, maybe I would be able to claim housing benefit? It all feels like the first application for an Equity Card :frown: I'm lucky my father and my partner are both such tolerant people.

[COLOR="Purple"]sooooooo how much does one pay in national/federal (whatever ya call it) for under £10,000???

When I had to do taxes on Yoji Ino, USA, the greatest fashion house in the world, and the smallest , never seeing a profit, soooooo it was considered a "self-employed" thing for me. The $0 or minus yearly salary put me into the cat of free tax prep support but it was hard to find someone who wanted to do a "self-employed". Fortunately I had all my receipts (usually many many more than necessary) and good book-keeping... and I just had to pay the minimum Social Security taxes which were like $300/year...

I could have applied for lots of benefits but it just seemed like hell in the San Francisco offices. The small Pennsylvania city offices are really comfortable and the staff are really nice. They have made the process very easy - but of course would rather be healthy and back in San Fran or Tokyo making great MensWearArt [/COLOR]