The UKBA will want you to score points and what income you use to score points is entirely up to you. hi, i hve another question hope you can help me. i need to do tax return for the year 2011 to 2012. i do nt have 35000 income in that period also i did nt do transcation fro march 2011 to dec 2011 ...

It works like this. You can break your 12 month earning period with a period of maternity leave, and claim income from a 12 month period that falls before or either side of that break. But if you do this, you can't then claim for any SE income that falls within the defined maternity leave period ...

hi im currently on tier1 general, expiring on 11/03/2013, my maternity leave started on the 13 august 2012 and my employer sent me p45 on 2nd nov 2012. she paying me still SMP. im self employed as well from jan 2012 till date. to show 35000 plus earning can i show income from self employed business ...