Question re: Partner working overseas

Icequeen99

Dunroamin wrote: »

That doesn't seem to me to be at all the same thing. That would cover someone who was employed by a UK organisation and paying UK tax even if the work was done abroad. This isn't your husband's situation.

The link given was to cross border workers, it certainly sound like that is the situation here. Cross border workers live in one country and work in another - such as live in Northern Ireland commute to Ireland each day to work or live in Southern England and work in France.

As I said in my previous post, if he is away more than 8 weeks he is no longer present in the UK and so they can't claim as a couple.

IQ

trailingspouse

You have to declare the amount that your husband earns, but you won't be asked to pay more tax on it. My OH worked abroad (and was paid abroad) for 6 months before we moved abroad, and there was never any question of him paying UK tax on top of the tax he'd already paid to the foreign revenue. There's a box you tick on the SA form to say that the money was earned abroad.

princessdon

Icequeen99 wrote: »

The link given was to cross border workers, it certainly sound like that is the situation here. Cross border workers live in one country and work in another - such as live in Northern Ireland commute to Ireland each day to work or live in Southern England and work in France.

As I said in my previous post, if he is away more than 8 weeks he is no longer present in the UK and so they can't claim as a couple.

IQ

That is the way I interpreted it and why I asked if OP can claim WTC in their own right, but hard to know with little detail.

It could be a different scencario?

Dunroamin

Icequeen99 wrote: »

The link given was to cross border workers, it certainly sound like that is the situation here. Cross border workers live in one country and work in another - such as live in Northern Ireland commute to Ireland each day to work or live in Southern England and work in France.

As I said in my previous post, if he is away more than 8 weeks he is no longer present in the UK and so they can't claim as a couple.

IQ

I didn't think that the OP meant that her husband went abroad to work - I missed the thread title.:o

paddedjohn

mi_jardin wrote: »

I pay tax here in the UK.

" AFAIK CTC" - sorry, what is this?

When I put our income into the benefits calculator we are supposedly eligable for £89 a week due to low income.

Surely if he's working abroad you aren't on a low income or are you basing your figures on your wage alone?

tyllwyd

If your OH is resident in the UK but his income is paid and taxed in the US, doesn't he have to fill in some kind of tax return to make sure that he is paying the right amount of UK tax (taking into account the tax he has already paid in the US)?

kb92830

The answer to this is where is he considered resident. If he is paying tax in the US then it is likely he is resident there and not the UK. Taxation is normally based in the country in which you are resident. If this is the case then he can not be part of a tax credit claim in the UK, in which case you will need to make a single claim if you qualify for the benefit.

The best advice is to ring the tax credit office and explain he is no longer resident in the UK and see what they say.

I know when I moved to switzerland to work my wife was told to make a single claim as I was no longer resident in the UK. If he is resident in the US his earnings will not be taken in to account when calculating the enttilement

mi_jardin

trailingspouse wrote: »

You have to declare the amount that your husband earns, but you won't be asked to pay more tax on it. My OH worked abroad (and was paid abroad) for 6 months before we moved abroad, and there was never any question of him paying UK tax on top of the tax he'd already paid to the foreign revenue. There's a box you tick on the SA form to say that the money was earned abroad.

Thank you, that is very helpful.

shedboy94

mi_jardin wrote: »

I pay tax here in the UK.

" AFAIK CTC" - sorry, what is this?

When I put our income into the benefits calculator we are supposedly eligable for £89 a week due to low income.

What income are you basing this figure on?

Poppie68

Seems like the OP is being very coy about their situation and therefore diffinitive advice is impossible. I get the impression though from her lack of info and the bits of advice she seems to be taking on board, he works for a US company but lives here in the UK.