Confused about Child & Partner tax

heretolearn_2

Are you feeling a bit less confused now?

Just to make sure

Income tax - what is deducted off your paypacket. Not effected at all by your relationship/family arrangements.

Tax credits - a form of benefit - these are worked out according to your circumstances and it is essential that you inform the Tax Credit office of any changes. They are called 'Tax Credits' to give them a nice 'non-benefit' type name, but they aren't really anything to do with tax.

nannytone_2

mrs manda...he's received the benefit ( train pass) for the past 27 years, and has always paid the tax on it throughout the year.
i looked at his tax code letter myself and it says they are recovering a tax underpayment of £79 ( which they said they had already told him about, but they havent). i understand that changing his tax code will recoup this. what i dont understand is that he had a cheque in november from HMRC for £20 as they said he'd overpaid!
is it worth pursueing or do they deal with under/overpayments seperately? what i mean is, if he had overpaid one year is a refund generated and then they look at the next year?

MrsManda

nannytone wrote: »

what i mean is, if he had overpaid one year is a refund generated and then they look at the next year?

Yes - Each financial year is judged separately so it's perfectly possible to get a refund for 2009/10 and an unpayment request for 2010/11.
If you don't think the tax codes are correct you can contact the HMRC and ask for more details.