Child Benefit and Self Assessment

[BeeInYourBonnet]

I have never had to do a self assessment before and am completely confused by the Gov.UK site!

I have been earning about £52k p.a. (after pension contributions) since December 14. If my pay continues at this level I understand that I will need to pay back a few hundred pounds, following completion of a self assessment form.

Could someone please clarify the dates for this? For the tax year April 14 to Mar 15 I should be fine as my salary was much lower for the first 8m of the year, so my total salary would have been below 50k. But for April 15-Mar 16 I will be over the £50k. So when do I need to do my first self assessment? Is it Oct 15, Oct 16 or some other date

Oct 2016 for paper submissions or Jan 2017 online.

If you do it by Dec 31st then you can have anything you owe taken out of your tax code. Later than that and you have to pay it in a lump sum as I learned the hard way.

OP, you could look into increasing your pension contribution in the new tax year, to reduce your net adjusted salary so that your child benefit claim is unaffected.