Marriage Allowance

Spinali

No I'll do that. Thanks

sheramber

Did you at any time previously use a third party company to claim any allowances e'g for washing a uniform , tools for work etc?
If you did then the repayment mandate you signed for them will still be on your record and all future repayments will go them, even although you did not claim through them this time.

Spinali

Claimed for PPI a couple of years ago if that counts?

Ninnut85

Does anyone know roughly how long it takes to receive a cheque for previous years allowance?
I applied for MA 3 weeks ago and received an email the next day stating it had been approved and my tax code would change. As part of the application I asked to claim the allowance for 2017/2018 as after doing the calculations, knew I would be entitled to it.
3 weeks later i've heard nothing from HMRC other than the email confirming my tax code change.
Anyone know what the kind of time frame is?

sheramber

Spinali wrote: »

Claimed for PPI a couple of years ago if that counts?

Yes, if you used a third party company their mandate to receive any repayment will still be on your record and all future repayments will go to them.
You need to get that cancelled.

julieluvs2shop

I got a cheq for £665 after my husband applied to transfer some of his allowance and I thought that’s great! Then my husband gets a tax letter saying he owes £453, how does that work? Why pay me then deduct tax from him, how can he have underpaid when he paid tax every month, seems applying for this has messed things up ��

Asghar

julieluvs2shop wrote: »

I got a cheq for £665 after my husband applied to transfer some of his allowance and I thought that’s great! Then my husband gets a tax letter saying he owes £453, how does that work? Why pay me then deduct tax from him

That exactly what you asked HMRC to do.

He gave 10% of his personal allowance to you so you were due less tax for previous years and looks like he was also making use of some of his personal allowance, so giving away 10% made him liable for more tax.

Don't forget you are transferring 10% personal allowance from one partner to the other. You are still better off as a couple.

julieluvs2shop

So it will be ok from now on if nothing changes? As I feel I should have just left it. Don’t think I understood it properly when we did it to be honest

polymaff

julieluvs2shop wrote: »

So it will be ok from now on if nothing changes? As I feel I should have just left it. Don’t think I understood it properly when we did it to be honest

HMRC didn't - and still don't - so why should you?..


As it works out, it is very difficult for a couple to actually lose by activating MAT - but many will find that that T in MAT is just what means - a TRANSFER of funds from one party to the other.

Dazed_and_confused

Why pay me then deduct tax from him, how can he have underpaid when he paid tax every month, seems applying for this has messed things up

What did he expect if he was already paying tax every month?

Applying for Marriage Allowance means you either pay the same amount of tax or more. It can never mean you pay less.