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@Tuss That's the thing I do, If I take on any more money I have to pay huge amounts of TAX on it. It's not that my company is going to take on the payments, it's that I've taken off a lot of un-necessary payments lately and feel this is one of the best tools that I most likely can get, sure for monthly payments but if my company does well I can always pay for the rest of it off in one go instead of waiting for it to finish and if it doesn't least I have a decent laptop to do the work on, as well as possibly game on.
If you are currently beneath the personal allowance limit of £12,570 then it's still only 20% on anything above the limit until you reach 50k and then it's 40% on anything above 50k. So 12,5k-50k is still 20% and anything under 12,5k is still tax free.
So if you do get a job to save up for a pc you would only pay lets say 200 in tax on 1k if you're in the 20% bracket.
It's not like they would force you to pay 20% on your whole allowance just because you hit the allowance limit.
You say TAX like it's a big scary thing but the only difference is that you have to work a couple of extra hours to make up for the tax that you will be paying. If you get £10 per hour you would have to put in 2.5 more hours to make the same as you would before the 20% bracket.
I'm currently paying 34% on everything I make if I make over 3k. I would gladly take the allowance and put in a few extra hours if I hit the 20% bracket.