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I agree, seems nuts.
The tax system is full of weird shit like this.
A couple can both earn £49,999 and get child benefit, a family with one working parent earning £50,000 doesn’t.
Hefty-
A couple can both earn £49,999 and get child benefit, a family with one working parent earning £50,000 doesn’t.
Not quite true.
At £50k you get 100% of CB.
At £51k you get 90% of CB.
At £52k you get 80% of CB.
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At £60k you get 0% of CB.It's responsible for the blip in marginal tax rates between £50k and £60k here (first one I found on an image search):
More kids and that blip gets bigger and bigger (in £ terms).
It's also claimed back via self assessment too, and that prompts me to put in charitable donations, which means I only end up paying back ~30% of CB.
Many people also claim CB despite having to pay it all back as it covers the NI payments for a non-working parent.
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A couple can both earn £49,999 and get child benefit, a family with one working parent earning £50,000 doesn’t.
Seriously? Neither of us is close that level and we assumed we were well over claiming level. How much per month is it?
Greenbank
rhb
Is that really what happens? but once one half of the couple dies, you're left with one person, so shouldn't it just be the same limits for inheriting from that one person? It doesn't matter that they were once married. (I'm not disupting, just seems weird. Adding together works if they both die at the same time. I supposed there could be a certain time buffer like if they died in the same month or something... could get complicated.)