There’s no way we need to pay back this much?

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child benefit,

so it’s dh, and I think he’s got this wrong

gross income (bonus, salary etc etc) £62000
gross pension paid £8487

total child benefit claimed £1885 (2 kids)

amount owed in self assessment tax return £2243.

surely this isn’t right? Husband is PAYE employee so tax is deducted at source and he’s not had any coms stating other wise from hmrc. Where as me, when I moved up a pay bracket, for a letter straight in the post advising I’d not paid enough tax.

can anyone help with this?

It’s from his p60 his base salary plus his bonus

The nature of the pension deductions will change the amount payable and that isn’t clear. Nevertheless the repayment would never be more than what you actually received, but this is a tax return, there could have been an underpayment otherwise, which is impossible to check as you haven’t mentioned what tax he paid on income.

It’s worked out there that gross minus personal allowance is around 50k, im getting really confused

The OP has posted the tax calculation!

it’s a student loan issue.

It says on the image I think he paid £12474

Can you anonymise the P60 and post that?

If you earn 1p over £60k you have to pay the whole child benefits back.

They only reason to claim CB if high earner is if one person not working and it keeps their NI stamps upto date.

I learnt the hard way

Or if you want to DM me I can have a look when I fire my laptop up in a little while.

Calm down with your exclamation mark! I had opened the page and got sidetracked so hadn’t seen the update.

What is his taxable income as stated on his p60? Is his pension taken off before he is taxed? If it isn’t it needs to be applied to the form separately. Did his employer calculate his tax correctly over the year? I think the only thing you can do is call them up. A friend of mine had a bill higher than the child benefit she had received and she had put her gross income in by mistake instead of her taxable income.

Ticked a box on the application form

@notsure10 after pension contributions though. So if you contributed 6k to your pension, your taxable income would only be 54k in that scenario

They took it all back off me, I earn't £62k in 22-23 and sent me letter in Oct saying i'd owe repayment. Went through all the self assessment forms and they claimed it all back!

I didn't trust it so called my DH accountant up and got them to double check and all correct.

This was my thought too, although I thought they only did that up to the value of the child benefit, i.e you'd only ever be asked to repay the £1885, but maybe I'm wrong. We stopped claiming when DH's salary increased to 60k,

The 62k must have been your adjusted net income figure for CB then. I am a CA