pint6x
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Children’s Tax Allowance 2002/2003 - £520.00 to claim before 31st Jan 2009
This as an easy claim for you to make, so do not get duped into paying someone to do this for you, they most likely will charge a large percentage.
The year before Tax Credits were introduced there was a non-means tested allowance, which was NEVER advertised by the Inland Revenue. It is called the Children’s Tax Allowance, for tax year 2002/2003. You can still claim this allowance before 31st January 2009.
You can claim the £520.00 allowance if:-
You have a child born between 6th April 1986 and 5th April 2003.
The child lived with you for all or part of 2002/2003
You worked and paid tax for all or part of 2002/2003 and earned over £6000.00.
There is an upper limit, but you might still get something even if you were a higher rate tax payer in that year.
Making a claim does not affect your current or future entitlement to Working or Child Tax Credits, your marital status is irrelevant, you cannot make the claim twice, so if married only one partner can claim.
If your P60 for April 2003 ended in a H or a T, you have already had the allowance.
All you need do is phone HMRC on 0845 302 1437 with your National Insurance Number and ask them to check whether you have already received this allowance. They will advise you on how to claim and give you a reference number so have a pen and paper handy. If you can claim then go to www.hmrc.gov.uk where there is a form completed for you to print off and sign. The form number is 11 CTC, put this is the search section and print
Got to be worth a go.
EDIT:
I rang them and was told that form 11CTC was obsolete.
What they told me to do was write in to:
HMRC
Fountain Court
119, Grange Road
Middlesborough
TS1 2XA
Give my NI number and that of my wife, with our full names and dates of birth. Also state which one of you was the higher earner.
State it was a claim for Children's Tax Allowance for the year 2002/2003.
Give the full names and birthdates of all children living with us during this financial year.
They will then look up the records and work out whether we're due anything.
This as an easy claim for you to make, so do not get duped into paying someone to do this for you, they most likely will charge a large percentage.
The year before Tax Credits were introduced there was a non-means tested allowance, which was NEVER advertised by the Inland Revenue. It is called the Children’s Tax Allowance, for tax year 2002/2003. You can still claim this allowance before 31st January 2009.
You can claim the £520.00 allowance if:-
You have a child born between 6th April 1986 and 5th April 2003.
The child lived with you for all or part of 2002/2003
You worked and paid tax for all or part of 2002/2003 and earned over £6000.00.
There is an upper limit, but you might still get something even if you were a higher rate tax payer in that year.
Making a claim does not affect your current or future entitlement to Working or Child Tax Credits, your marital status is irrelevant, you cannot make the claim twice, so if married only one partner can claim.
If your P60 for April 2003 ended in a H or a T, you have already had the allowance.
All you need do is phone HMRC on 0845 302 1437 with your National Insurance Number and ask them to check whether you have already received this allowance. They will advise you on how to claim and give you a reference number so have a pen and paper handy. If you can claim then go to www.hmrc.gov.uk where there is a form completed for you to print off and sign. The form number is 11 CTC, put this is the search section and print
Got to be worth a go.
EDIT:
I rang them and was told that form 11CTC was obsolete.
What they told me to do was write in to:
HMRC
Fountain Court
119, Grange Road
Middlesborough
TS1 2XA
Give my NI number and that of my wife, with our full names and dates of birth. Also state which one of you was the higher earner.
State it was a claim for Children's Tax Allowance for the year 2002/2003.
Give the full names and birthdates of all children living with us during this financial year.
They will then look up the records and work out whether we're due anything.
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