UK profesionals please help! Information required!

[jdp]

Have you thought about moving to a different country? I live in Australia and was in England recently. The question nobody could answer was "Why are we being charged 250% more for vastly inferior food, accommodation and service? (Don't get me started on the weather...) Lucky you've got some interesting historical sites there [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Oh yes and there's no tax on online poker players here.

[Disk]

Cheers everyone for the great responses!

Thanks for the info everybody!

Just wanted to clarify with I few people as I don't like appearing like an idiot, I do not need credit to finance myself! I was purely asking out of curiosity, it was only whether I needed to pay income tax currently that I needed, the other two were just my musings.

Also, as I may keep posting here as it's unusual to get friendly responses on an online forum these days, I am not planning on spending my entire life sat in my house earning a slightly above average income playing online poker!

I've just recently graduated and can live rent free (and cost free!) for a couple of years yet, so delaying my career to have £70000 in the bank at the age of 23 seemed a much more rational decision than wasting money travelling around the world, or jumping straight in to an accountancy job on £23k a year and having to pay out £7000 p.a in rent which was what I was looking at.

Thanks again for the info, you should all see me around a bit now.

[DeeJ]

You might want to check over at thehendonmob or blondepoker which are both UK sites with plenty of information about the British scene.

[excession]

Why don;t you travel around the world and play poker online?

Seems like the best of both worlds to me [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[mushi]

I dont want to sound like your mother but.

Youre still young and you live in the UK. I suggest you do a PhD (in 3 years you can be a Dr. even PhD students get over 1000 pounds a month, not bad for a side job [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]), you have plenty of time to play almost full time if you wish (my best friends is a Physics graduate student in Columbia University he will finish his PhD soon, he made over 100K$ in the last 5 years from playing online poker while beeing a grad student [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]) and the best thing is you are not "wasting" your time. I mean if you make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from poker youre the man. If you dont you still finish with a PhD and can start somthing else. A PhD in mathematics/computer science can get a long way if you fail as a poker pro. Also if you take your studies seriuosly you can both enjoy and gain a lot from it. Personally and Professionally.
Remeber youre still young you can afford to study now later on it will be more difficult.

In any case I wish you the best of luck

mushi

[excession]

UK is less racist than Oz waa my answer for not staying out there and their music scene is [censored]..