Child benefit self assessment

[truflets]

I was reading the active child benefit thread and now I'm stressed! I have 2 DCs and claim child benefit

I work in the NHS, moved to a new job in April 2020 which took me over the £50000 threshold before tax (with pension contributions deducted its below that). I haven't ever filled in a self assessment for tax as I had assumed that I didn't have to as I'm not self employed and pension contributions would automatically be considered ... But now I'm thinking the opposite and the panic has set in.

So do I need to get onto this straightaway? Is it a matter of contacting HRMC and sorting this out retrospectively?

Are your pension contributions deducted at source, I.e. salary sacrifice by your employer? If so, then you don't need to do a self assessment tax return.

Your P60 should show your taxable income, so whatever you earned minus your pension contributions for year ending April 2021.

Just contact them and they'll let you know one way or another

www.gov.uk/child-benefit

Even if you don't contact them they'll soon get hold of you to pay any overpayments back

They probably won't come after you that quickly as they tend to only go after the most vulnerable and kick them when they're down

@DancesWithFelines yes I'm in the NHS pension scheme so those deductions are taken automatically from my monthly pay. I'll have a look at my P60 now but taking those out will bring it down. Was freaking at the thought I should have been doing something I didn't know about!

@JustLikeaJingleBell true, if anything is owed they will make sure to get it back

We ended up in a similar situation, and did the tax return (well, DH did). It turned out he was due a rebate. A big one. Which we'd never have known about otherwise, so there may yet be a silver lining....

@furballfun I'm scared of anything tax related and automatically presume the worst..... so just hearing this is good!