Essex Online Website

Taxes
Information on income tax rates and allowances, self assessment, PAYE, income tax and pensioners and inheritance tax.
HM Revenue and Customs  
A  leaflet explaining how payment of tax does not stop on retirement. However, National Insurance contributions are no longer payable once state pension age is reached

The following information relates to Age concern and Help the Aged factsheets.
Information on income tax, tax allowances, claiming tax back, self assessment and useful contacts.

Income tax
Income tax  
This factsheet provides a basic guide to income tax allowances for older people aged 60 and over.
Check your tax
The principle behind income tax is quite simple - when income is more than a certain amount tax is payable on the rest.  Changes over the last few years mean that many people with very modest incomes can find it difficult to work out how much tax they have to pay and even whether they have to pay tax at all.

Council tax
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit  
Tthis covers Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Council tax
Who pays it, how much it is, what reductions and exemptions might be possible.