Cancelling Marriage Allowance

Coinless

Hi,

Person 1 has M tax code and Person 2 has N tax code. Person 2 applied for the Marriage Allowance.

Person 1 and 2 ended up separating.

Person 2 has cancelled the Marriage Allowance after 2 years of separation and is now asking Person 1 to pay them back the money that they saved over the 2 year period before they cancelled the Marriage Allowance.

Does person 1 have to pay any monies and who should they pay to? Person 2 or HMRC?

Dazed_and_C0nfused

First of all when was the cancellation effective from?

As I understand it Marriage Allowance applies for a full year or not at all i.e. you either get it or you don't, no half measures.

Once that is known things will become clearer.

Coinless

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

First of all when was the cancellation effective from?

As I understand it Marriage Allowance applies for a full year or not at all i.e. you either get it or you don't, no half measures.

Once that is known things will become clearer.

The cancellation was Oct 2021.

[Deleted User]

It’s all here:

https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance/if-your-circumstances-change

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Coinless said:

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

First of all when was the cancellation effective from?

As I understand it Marriage Allowance applies for a full year or not at all i.e. you either get it or you don't, no half measures.

Once that is known things will become clearer.

The cancellation was Oct 2021.

In that case the only tax to be paid back will be for the period 6 April to now and HMRC usually collect that via extra PAYE tax deductions between now and April 2022.

There won't be anything to pay back to HMRC for any earlier period.

Anything else is a matter between the two people.