OCUK help :) whats the % on tax & NI ?

[Combat squirrel]

As title, say if you got a lump sum payout from work of around 2k, whats the tax id get taken off that ? - sorry to ask, and I have googled, but its not particularly clear.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Tax £400
NI £260 approx.

You would receive approx £1340 of it.

Sounds like a pretty harsh deduction, so let me make it easier by demonstrating what it's spent on:

Haha ledge!

Whats it for? If redundancy then its different. Up to £30k in one lump tax free

Yeah its redundancy