Jeremy Corbyn paid TOO MUCH tax last year

Miscalculated: Jeremy Corbyn paid too much tax
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Hannah Al-Othman13 April 2016
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Jeremy Corbyn over-paid his tax last year, his office has said.

A review of his tax return income has found that the Labour leader mistakenly declared £270 more than he should have for the 2014/15 tax year.

Mr Corbyn’s office told HuffPost UK that his MPs’ register of interest revealed that as a backbencher he had received £1200 for eight lectures for Parliament and the Foreign Office between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015.

However, on his tax form he had mistakenly declared one extra payment, bringing his total to £1,350.

Corbyn: fthe Labour leader made his tax return public 
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Mr Corbyn also made an error when calculating how much he had been paid for carrying out opinion poll surveys.

He was paid £380 for taking part in surveys for ComRes and YouGov, but mistakenly declared £500 on his tax form.

A spokesman said: “It appears that Jeremy has over-declared his modest earnings by a small amount to the tax man.

Late: the Labour leader had to pay a fine
he Labour Party/PA Wire

“What he certainly has done is declare all his earnings and income and paid his tax in full and in the normal way. He has definitely not underpaid the tax man.

“And unlike the Prime Minister and George Osborne, he has actually published his actual tax return, rather than a summary of it.”

When it emerged that he had filed his form late, an aide added: "Jeremy does not have an accountant. Like many people, he does the form himself."

Income: Jeremy Corbyn declared £1,850 of taxable income on top of his Parliamentary salary
The Labour Party/PA Wire

Mr Corbyn confirmed yesterday that he was fined £100 after he submitted last year's tax return after the deadline.

Yesterday David Cameron - who published his own tax return at the weekend - said leading politicians from both sides of the house should make public how much tax they had paid.

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