Tax credits

Tinkerbell4484

Husband had an interview yesterday for a small company, his certificates for his trade were photocopied, today he got a phone call asking for a copy of his tax credits? The company want to check how much tax he is paying before they make him an offer? Does this sound right? Why would they need this, no one else has ever asked for it. And it’s not a big fancy job he’s a welder so money isn’t amazing. He only usually pays usc and prsi as I am not working and we share credits.

Salary Negotiator

Sounds like they’re trying to calculate his take home pay and base the offer on that.

You husband using your credits mean they could offer him a smaller gross than a single person but that will count against him if you ever work or applying for mortgage etc.

exaisle

They should offer him a gross salary. It's dangerous for them to do otherwise. His tax credits are none of their business.

The difficulty, particularly in the construction industry where employees demand "X euros into the hand" is that it leaves the employer open to the employee manipulating their tax credits (eg transferring them to their spouse) so that it costs the employer more to pay the employee the "into the hand" sum.

Tinkerbell4484

exaisle wrote: »

They should offer him a gross salary. It's dangerous for them to do otherwise. His tax credits are none of their business.

The difficulty, particularly in the construction industry where employees demand "X euros into the hand" is that it leaves the employer open to the employee manipulating their tax credits (eg transferring them to their spouse) so that it costs the employer more to pay the employee the "into the hand" sum.

They asked what his current weekly take home is, and they are advertising their salary on their advert as the same as what his gross is at the moment. There really isn’t much of a difference between his gross and net, maybe €30-40 at most, and we have 5 small kids so I won’t be going back to work anytime soon.
I just thought it was a bit of a strange request as no one else has asked it and he has had several interviews over the past few weeks

FishOnABike

A new employer has no need to know his current / previous pay (gross or take home). The job is worth what it is worth.

Once revenue are advised he has started a new job they will issue a Tax Credit Certificate to his new employer. A prospective employer does not need to see any previous tax credit certificate or payslip.

ted1

They should make an offer or your husband should ask for x. They shouldn’t look for anything else