Renewing tax credits and SMP

Zoel91

I've just remembered I'm yet to renew my tax credits, totally forgot.
However I'm sure someone said about deducting £100 per week for SMP. So am I best calling them to renew so they can do this or can I simply just deduct the £3900 myself from overall income?
Hope this make sense.

andrewmp

Just deduct it yourself when you put in the renewal, they'll quite possibly already know as the employer should tell them iirc.

Zoel91

My employer totally messed up my pay stupid place. I need to do a self assesment to for the little bit of money I make at home so will deduct myself. Thanks!

Darksparkle

andrewmp wrote: »

Just deduct it yourself when you put in the renewal, they'll quite possibly already know as the employer should tell them iirc.

Tax credits just get the total taxable pay figure. The employer doesn't take anything to do with tax credit deducting £100 per week SMP.

Darksparkle

I personally would call so you can explain why your figure won't match theirs.

andrewmp

Darksparkle wrote: »

Tax credits just get the total taxable pay figure. The employer doesn't take anything to do with tax credit deducting £100 per week SMP.

They just get the taxable pay, correct, but they also seem to know when you've been paid SMP. It must trigger something on the HMRC system.

Darksparkle

andrewmp wrote: »

They just get the taxable pay, correct, but they also seem to know when you've been paid SMP. It must trigger something on the HMRC system.

The tax office may know if it's noted correctly on the RTI return. However this isn't always passed to tax credits (or hasn't been in previous years). Either way, you still need to do it yourself as they wont know how many weeks you were on SMP.

Zoel91

Once I've done my self assessment I'll ring them with new figures.