JohnDorian
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After a letter last week informing us that our landlord is selling our house, we've been trying to get the wheels in motion to apply for a mortgage, the deposit is being gifted by parents and I'm currently waiting on a figure for an upcoming pay raise in work, have done the sums and can comfortably afford to pay a mortgage (and can demonstrate repayment capacity of 150% of the level of mortgage we'd be looking for via rent and a, now fully repaid, loan I've had for the past 5 years).
The issue we're facing is that, for the past year my wife has been doing some child-minding for cash in hand. Had we known we'd be in a position to apply for a mortgage this soon, we'd have obviously taken care of this beforehand but now need to figure out how to regularise her tax affairs and be able to provide proof of income.
We're jointly assessed for tax and, as such, I'm claiming all her PAYE credits etc. Will declaring her income to the Revenue affect this? I know that as a childminder, she needs to register with the HSE and, once that's done she has a 15k earnings threshold before PAYE is due? Is there likely to be any penalty for having started earning before registering etc?
How do we go about declaring her income for 2015 to Revenue? If I understand it correctly, we have until October to do this for 2015?
The issue we're facing is that, for the past year my wife has been doing some child-minding for cash in hand. Had we known we'd be in a position to apply for a mortgage this soon, we'd have obviously taken care of this beforehand but now need to figure out how to regularise her tax affairs and be able to provide proof of income.
We're jointly assessed for tax and, as such, I'm claiming all her PAYE credits etc. Will declaring her income to the Revenue affect this? I know that as a childminder, she needs to register with the HSE and, once that's done she has a 15k earnings threshold before PAYE is due? Is there likely to be any penalty for having started earning before registering etc?
How do we go about declaring her income for 2015 to Revenue? If I understand it correctly, we have until October to do this for 2015?