Capital Gains Tax when on an ESA

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BestWishesEveryone

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well and able to deal with life challenges :-).

Please if someone can guide me on a particular query:

I am on new style ESA that's taxable. In addition, I have a £700 per month job (£8400 per year) that's well within the £183/week wages to maintain eligibility for new style ESA. Even after combining these two taxable incomes, I am a basic rate tax payer.

My Husband gifted me shares that I am looking to sell, so my question is: Can Capital Gains of say £30k count towards ESA eligibility that puts a limit of c £9500 as net income to be eligible for the new style ESA

Thank you so much in advance.

BestWishesEveryone

So just to update: I spoke to the Govt ESA helpline. And it is all good. Capital Gains don't affect the ESA eligibility the officer confirmed.

I also got this info from a charity, which validated the same:

When it comes to new style ESA there are only a couple of things that will affect it – if you have a certain type of pension over £85 a week and haven’t paid at least 50% of the premiums or if you are a local councillor and have an allowance above £183.50 (same as the permitted work levels) Quite aside from any tax implications which I am not qualified to advise on, gifts or assets, savings, second properties etc are all ignored.