Child Benefit Charge - Non UK Tax Payer

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recently received a letter from HMRC stating high income child benefit charge was due. Based on the below link, having worked and paid taxes out the UK for the relevant tax year this charge was not applicable.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20135813

Any clarity would be appreciated

Thanks

Are you still entitled to claim child benefit if you are not a UK resident? Where do you live?

Were you entitled to CB that year?

Have you checked this guidance ? www.gov.uk/child-benefit-abroad#:~:text=You%20can%20get%20Child%20Benefit%20if%20you%27re%20a%20Crown,UK%20for%20a%20posting%20abroad.

Home is NI. Worked in Ireland.

I would get some professional advice as I imagine your situation where you live in the UK but work outside is tricky (and the ROI is one that you can claim in) as that link is 10 years old!

From a quick Google it seems you should have been claiming from Ireland not the UK. I would call child benefit and ask them, you would actually get more money claiming from Ireland as well.

Just found some info here borderpeople.info/a-z/child-benefit-in-northern-ireland.html

If you live in NI & both parents work in ROI then you are meant to claim child benefit in ROI. However if one parent works in ROI and one works in NI, then it is supposed to be claimed where the child is resident (NI) presumably claiming in the name of the parent who works in NI.

Children reside in NI and one parent works in NI and the other in Ireland.

If neither of you are in the UK why are you still getting child benefit from the UK? Should you not be claiming in Ireland instead?

They are in the UK. NI is part of the UK.