Any payroll people in the know? P60 / P11D question

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I've received a letter from HMRC asking whether I need to pay the child benefit charge.

Should the total income in my P60 include my taxable benefits? Or do I need to add those on separately? This is the difference between me needing to pay or not pay the charge so I need to get it right... thanks!

Have you tried using the calculator online

www.gov.uk/child-benefit-tax-calculator

Thanks - have used the calculator but I don't know whether my income for the year as per my P60 already includes my taxable benefits (company car) or whether I need to add that I'm separately...

*add that IN separately

Your P60 won't include benefits declared on the P11d, so yes, you do need to add your P11d benefits to your P60 to get to the "taxable income" figure for child benefit purposes.

It depends on how your company car is provided by your company.

I have to pay for private use of mine, so I get my normal salary, which is the same whether or not I have a company car, as we don't get a car allowance and then there's a payment deducted for the car.

I then get the p11d, which shows the taxable benefit element of the car, which is used to adjust my tax code.

If you go through the calculator linked above, it should work it out for you, but yes the P60 is your salary without the car and the p11d is the taxable benefit of the car, which effectively increases your salary in relation to whether you're entitled to child benefit. But don't forget that your pension contributions also work in your favour for these purposes.

Eg if your salary is £60k and you pay £5k pa into your pension, but the taxable benefit of your car is £3k, you pay tax and your CB is worked out as if your salary is £58k.

You need to add your company car allowance - although most allowances are paid via your salary in which in case it would be already captured in your p60. If you have a car and not the allowance that would be shown on your p11d and that would need to be added on separately