From bagging cashback to renting out a room in your home,...

GET richer in 2025 by using little-known tax allowances and other clever ways to earn extra cash. It could all add up to a £35,000 bonus for you, as Mel Hunter explains... RENT out your driveway through justpark.com, your garden through allotme.co.uk or your garage through stashbee.com. Stashbee users typically earn £1,300 a year, while Just Park hosts make around £320. Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown, adds: “Through the Property Allowance (HMRC tax exemption), you can make up to £1,000 from your home without having to declare it for tax.”.

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TAKE on jobs that others don’t have the time or skills to do. Register with sites such as airtasker.com to earn £60 for some light gardening work, or up to £5,000 a year for washing cars twice a week. IF you have expensive equipment such as cameras, tools or sports gear, rent it out at fatllama.com. Pressure washers can be loaned out for around £15 a day. That’s £300 a year if loaned out 20 times.

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SWITCH to a new current account and pocket a bonus sum in the process. First Direct and Nationwide currently offer £175. YOU can earn around £30 on opinionexchange.co.uk for an hour-long online interview. One a month will earn you £360 a year. ACCORDING to software editor Adobe Express, computing is the side hustle that brings in the most money, with a quarter of those offering IT services earning £1,000 or more a month.

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CLASSIC vinyl albums from the 1980s can fetch £25 or more on eBay if in good condition. Sell a collection of 20 LPs and you could make up to £500. IF you wear a uniform for work, you may get a tax allowance. Nurses get a £125 allowance and can claim 20 per cent of that — £25 — as a basic-rate taxpayer. Mechanics can claim £24. You can backdate your claim by four years. ALMOST a third of UK adults who checked their tax code found errors, says finance firm Canada Life, with three quarters overpaying nearly £700.

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Check your code through gov.uk/tax-codes and claim a refund if you have overpaid. LET out your furnished spare room and you won’t have to pay tax on the first £7,500 you make under the Rent a Room scheme. IF you move £1,000 from a savings account paying one per cent interest to another paying nearly five per cent, you’ll earn nearly £40 extra a year. MORE than 800,000 families are missing out on £2,000 a year in help with childcare.

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If your child is 11 or under, or 16 if they have a disability, the Government’s Tax Free Childcare scheme offers up to £2,000 a year, or £4,000 if they are disabled, towards childcare bills. IF you have a good credit score, no outstanding credit card debt, some savings and you are VERY organised, look into “stoozing”. Use a zero-per-cent-purchase credit card to buy something and keep cash in a high-interest savings account to cover its cost.

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Always pay the minimum monthly repayment and when the zero-per-cent deal is about to end, pay off the balance using the savings and keep the interest earned. IF you receive Universal Credit and earn at least £1 a month, you can use the Government’s Help to Save scheme, now running to April 2027. Save up to £50 a month and after two years and four years the Government will pay a bonus of 50 per cent of your highest balance.

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By saving the maximum you could get £600 after two years and four years. THE average household could save £2,700 a year by getting all the benefits they are entitled to. More than nine in ten families are missing out on around £200 a year in broadband bill help, while four in five are not claiming £160 for water bills. Thousands of retirees are missing out on Pension Credit worth around £3,900. USE a refer-a-friend link to connect friends to services you use, and you will both get a bonus.

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Virgin Media or Octopus customers can currently get £50 when a friend signs up. THE average amount sitting in a lost bank account is £450. Visit mylostaccount.org.uk to see if you are owed anything, or use NS&I’s tracing request form for lost Premium Bonds. BECOME a mystery shopper to earn money doing everyday tasks such as shopping or testing customer services. Sites include Be My Eye, Field Agent, Market Force and Tern.

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DITCH your daily brew and invest the money in a stocks and shares ISA. Investing is generally for the long term, so stick with it and it could make a nice lump sum. OLD toys can be worth a mint. According to auctioneer Tim Weeks, of Wessex Auction Rooms, classic toys made 30 years ago such as He-Man figures, Star Wars paraphernalia and early games consoles are worth the most. YOU could get compensation for a delayed train or flight.