High Income Child Benefit Charge
18 June 2018
If any of your employees have an income of over £50,000 and claim Child Benefit or have a partner who claims, they may have to pay the High Income Child Benefit Charge.
HMRC is urging employers to remind your employees to check their annual income to calculate whether they are liable to pay High Income Child Benefit Charge. Details of their income can be found on their personal tax account (PTA) and/or P60.
More information on the High Income Child Benefit Charge is available here.
What you can do with your PTA account
More than 13 million people are already using their personal tax account to complete a variety of tasks, from updating an address to filing their self-assessment return. You could remind employees of all the things that their PTA can enable them to do, which in turn will help to reduce the number of queries that come to payroll.
Individuals can:
- Check and change your address
- See what tax code you’re on, and how your tax is calculated
- Check your state pension and your National Insurance record
- Go paperless – gets texts and emails from HMRC rather than letters
- Manage your tax credits and Child Benefit payments
- Allow a family member or friend to manage your tax affairs on your behalf
- Track the progress of any forms you’ve submitted to HMRC
- and lots more…………
…..take a look at all the things you can do with your personal tax account. The list is growing all the time – HMRC is always working to improve the personal tax account and add new services to it.