Marriage Tax Allowance

EllyPS

Hi, does anyone know if I can stop marriage tax claims.com from getting my tax refund. I thought they were part of HMRC and applied through them for marriage tax allowance, now they are getting my refund and will take £100 and 42%. Which amounts to about 75% of my refund which is a complete rip off as if you go direct it’s free and I thought I was going direct

thank you

calcotti

Suggest you post in the Cutting Tax forum. This is the welfare benefits forum.

68ComebackSpecial

Their home page makes it clear that they charge for their service and that claims can be made directly with HMRC without a fee. Their fee structure is also very clear and visible. I can't see any way that a reasonable person could confuse this site with HMRC. If you formed a contract with them and they have provided the service then they are entitled to claim their fees. It might be a rip off, but it's one you agreed to even after the company making it explicitly clear twice on their home page that a free claim is available via HMRC directly.
https://marriagetaxclaim.com

Dazed_and_C0nfused

EllyPS said:

Hi, does anyone know if I can stop marriage tax claims.com from getting my tax refund. I thought they were part of HMRC and applied through them for marriage tax allowance, now they are getting my refund and will take £100 and 42%. Which amounts to about 75% of my refund which is a complete rip off as if you go direct it’s free and I thought I was going direct

thank you

You are confused.  Anyone who applies for Marriage Allowance only ever pays the same or more tax, they would never get a refund from having a reduced Personal Allowance.

It is the person who doesn't apply who gets the refund (if one is due).

Did the Marriage Allowance recipient sign up with this third party as well as the applicant?

EllyPS

So, my partner and I got married last year. He is retired so his income is less than his personal allowance so we applied for marriage tax allowance so I could have 10% of his personal allowance. We used marriagetaxclaims.com but you can apply direct which we found out afterwards. Anyway, the claim has been approved and I have received a letter from HMRC saying I have a refund of £248, however the cheque is going to MTC.com and they take 42% & £100!!

Asghar

It's a shame you didn't go direct to hmrc.gov.uk, that's all you need for everything Government related.

No googling required to end up at a website that pay google to have their site appear near the top of the searches.

EllyPS

I know and the link posted by the person above is not the same as the website I used. This one has way more information and it does state at the very end that you can claim direct. The one I used listed everything HMRC would do and mentioned HMRC officers in the first 2 lines which totally gave the impression that it was part of HMRC. Anyway, like I say, it’s a rip off and we need people to be aware of it. I am not losing a lot of money but I have read about others who had refunds in the thousands and ended up with only half. 

EllyPS

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

EllyPS said:

Hi, does anyone know if I can stop marriage tax claims.com from getting my tax refund. I thought they were part of HMRC and applied through them for marriage tax allowance, now they are getting my refund and will take £100 and 42%. Which amounts to about 75% of my refund which is a complete rip off as if you go direct it’s free and I thought I was going direct

thank you

You are confused.  Anyone who applies for Marriage Allowance only ever pays the same or more tax, they would never get a refund from having a reduced Personal Allowance.

It is the person who doesn't apply who gets the refund (if one is due).

Did the Marriage Allowance recipient sign up with this third party as well as the applicant?

So, my partner and I got married last year. He is retired so his income is less than his personal allowance so we applied for marriage tax allowance so I could have 10% of his personal allowance. We used marriagetaxclaims.com but you can apply direct which we found out afterwards. Anyway, the claim has been approved and I have received a letter from HMRC saying I have a refund of £248, however the cheque is going to MTC.com and they take 42% & £100!!

EllyPS

68ComebackSpecial said:

Their home page makes it clear that they charge for their service and that claims can be made directly with HMRC without a fee. Their fee structure is also very clear and visible. I can't see any way that a reasonable person could confuse this site with HMRC. If you formed a contract with them and they have provided the service then they are entitled to claim their fees. It might be a rip off, but it's one you agreed to even after the company making it explicitly clear twice on their home page that a free claim is available via HMRC directly.
//marriagetaxclaim.com

Thanks for the comment. I am a reasonable person of average intelligence but this link you’ve shared is not the website I used. Same organisation but there was no where near as much info on the one I used in Oct and it did not state that you could apply direct, if I had seen that I wouldn’t have proceeded with these guys. When I didn’t have any correspondence from them after sending the form back and emailing them to advise of a change of address I thought that nothing was happening and then I discovered I could apply direct, which I did and had a response direct from HMRC within 24 hours giving me a new tax code. Can’t figure out why it takes so long through these guys and how they can justify the charges. When I signed up I thought I was going to be paying for them to deal with it all like any claim company but they haven’t really done anything! 

Dazed_and_C0nfused

EllyPS said:

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

EllyPS said:

Hi, does anyone know if I can stop marriage tax claims.com from getting my tax refund. I thought they were part of HMRC and applied through them for marriage tax allowance, now they are getting my refund and will take £100 and 42%. Which amounts to about 75% of my refund which is a complete rip off as if you go direct it’s free and I thought I was going direct

thank you

You are confused.  Anyone who applies for Marriage Allowance only ever pays the same or more tax, they would never get a refund from having a reduced Personal Allowance.

It is the person who doesn't apply who gets the refund (if one is due).

Did the Marriage Allowance recipient sign up with this third party as well as the applicant?

So, my partner and I got married last year. He is retired so his income is less than his personal allowance so we applied for marriage tax allowance so I could have 10% of his personal allowance. We used marriagetaxclaims.com but you can apply direct which we found out afterwards. Anyway, the claim has been approved and I have received a letter from HMRC saying I have a refund of £248, however the cheque is going to MTC.com and they take 42% & £100!!

"We" cannot apply for Marriage Allowance.

He must have applied if you are getting a refund.  And therefore you presumably agreed to the third party companies terms.

Most things government related are dealt with through gov.uk nowadays and have been for some time.

HMRC do not "approve" claims, they simply check if you are both eligible and calculate both parties tax accordingly.  Most people in the UK are eligible, but not everyone can benefit from Marriage Allwoance

sheramber

If your code has been changed to give the allowance then any repayment for the current yeat will come through your wages. So it will not go the claims company.
if you married before 6 April 2020 then there may be a repayment due for the tax year 2019/20 . In that  case it will go the claims company.
Current year amendments are done before HMRC calculate previous years.
if there is no repayment due for 2019/20 then the claims company probably  wouldn't take any further action as there would be nothing in it for them.