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Child tax credit/ISA

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  • zagfles
    zagfles Posts: 21,686 Forumite
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    AirlieBird wrote: »
    Tax Credits are based on taxable income as they are officially classified as "negative tax", and so you do not need to declare anything that is not subject to tax, i.e. ISAs.
    Generally true but there are a few exceptions. For instance strike pay is not taxable but does need to be declared.
  • peggyKu
    peggyKu Posts: 19 Forumite
    Strike pay, can you explain to me what that is? sorry if its a simple question.
  • zagfles
    zagfles Posts: 21,686 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Chutzpah Haggler
    peggyKu wrote: »
    Strike pay, can you explain to me what that is? sorry if its a simple question.
    Pay from your trade union if you go on strike.
  • peggyKu
    peggyKu Posts: 19 Forumite
    ah ok thanks :)
  • durley
    durley Posts: 7 Forumite
    If anybody is claiming working tax credit and child tax credit, under the new proposed reforms if you are saving for anything and you go over the means testing you will not get it anymore, at the moment savings are not assessed for working tax credits.
  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,515 Forumite
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    This will happen when people get shifted from the Tax credits onto the Universal Credits. It's going to catch a lot of people when they discover they will lose out despite IDS promising that nobody claiming know will be worse off when UC comes in.
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