Income Tax

kerrhona
kerrhona Posts: 9 Forumite
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Hi clever peeps,
Hope someone can help me. I recently claimed my husbands unused marriage allowance tax. They accepted my claim but I've been waiting now for 6 months. Can anyone tell me how long one normally has to wait for it?
Many thanks for any info
Kerrhona:)

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  • dunstonh
    dunstonh Posts: 116,356 Forumite
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    Adjustments are usually made via tax code. Have you had a tax code notification?
    I am an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA). The comments I make are just my opinion and are for discussion purposes only. They are not financial advice and you should not treat them as such. If you feel an area discussed may be relevant to you, then please seek advice from an Independent Financial Adviser local to you.
  • newatc
    newatc Posts: 845 Forumite
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    edited 13 August 2017 at 5:52PM
    I claimed my wife's some time ago. Can't remember how long it took but certainly nothing like 6 months, nearer 6 weeks I would think.
  • kerrhona
    kerrhona Posts: 9 Forumite
    Thank you all for your help. i am retired so not sure if or when i will receive a new tax code. Maybe I should contact Income tax and find out if they have forgotten us.
    Grateful, thanks
    Kerrhona
  • BooJewels
    BooJewels Posts: 2,861 Forumite
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    edited 14 August 2017 at 2:12PM
    I would suggest that it might well be worth contacting them. I'm self employed and allocated some of my allowance to my husband when filling in my tax return for 2015/2016 in January this year. After a number of weeks, nothing had shown up in his tax code, so as he had another query, he mentioned this too and for some reason it hadn't reached his tax account. They processed it manually in some manner and he got a cheque for a refund for the amount of tax concerned around May (£220-ish I think).

    As I'm self-employed, my tax return is a year behind his tax code, so he was told this would be how it would happen for us. I've just done my 2016/17 return, so I hope the same might happen again, even though everything I've read suggests it's managed as an adjustment to the spouse's tax code - but my allowance will always be for the previous tax year.
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