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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.
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.
Greenbank
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.