Marriage Allowance

DParrock

That’s where you are wrong. I went through the proper channels via the gov.uk site
All the correspondence has been through the HMRC yet they still charged me £202 for claim admin and processing and £40 for vat. I did not go through a private company. The HMRC are only out for what they can get.

Dazed_and_confused

Can you provide a screenshot of the invoice showing the £202 and VAT charge?

polymaff

Can you provide any details? The urls of the web-sites you visited?


Is this familiar?


Marriage tax refund

Our Marriage tax refund service has a fixed fee of 20% on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis, so if you don’t get a refund, you don’t pay us anything. Please note that we have a minimum fee of £25 per refund processed from HMRC.

DParrock

I only visited gov.uk searched for marriage allowance and started my process. At no point have I gone through an independent company as it didn’t know they even existed

polymaff

That's that, then

sheramber

Have you EVER claimed anything through such a company? If so, then the authority will still be on your record and all further repayments will automatically be sent to them until you cancel the authority.

HMRC will be able to advise you if there is a mandate on your records.

DParrock

It turns out that when you go through the HMRC website it goes to a third party company which was unknown to me. This third party then take your money. I’m not the only person this has effected and have written to watchdog about it to complain

sheramber

DParrock wrote: »

It turns out that when you go through the HMRC website it goes to a third party company which was unknown to me. This third party then take your money. I’m not the only person this has effected and have written to watchdog about it to complain

What is the name of this third party?

Can you supply the details of the website you claimed through as it is certainly not HMRC.
My claim did not goto a third party.

alewin

If someone only received their National Insurance number in February of this year (2018-19 tax year), then can they only apply for Marriage Allowance from this tax year onwards (2019-20). Which is the first full year with a National Insurance number?

Would it be possible to back date it to the start of the 2018-19 tax even though they did not have a National Insurance number in April, at the start of the tax year but did have one at some point in the year?

Hope the above makes sense.

Dazed_and_confused

Probably but sounds like the applicant (the person giving up part of their Personal Allowance) will have to phone or write to HMRC to put it in place.