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Please review High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge.

Submitted on Monday 11th January 2021

Rejected on Monday 18th January 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Please review High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge.

Petition Details

Review the £50k limit of Gross salary for individuals in a household with independents. Currently if spouse A earns £50,001 and Spouse B earns £nil in a household, the child benefit received in a tax year will need to be repaid. If Spouse A earns £49,999 and Spouse B £49,999, no repayment is made.

Additional Information

This tax charge for high earners is an unfair tax dependent on individuals as opposed to households with dependents. Circumstances for child support/benefit could mean than a spouse does not work to care for dependents whilst the other spouse earns over £50k. The household income being £50k and the charge being implemented.
If a household has two parents earning £49,999 each ( a total income of £99,998) then no charge is implemented.
The couple who earn £49,999 each are at an advantage.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Remove the High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/569512

Calculate high income child benefit tax charge based on entire household income: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329146

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