CMS and Salary Sacrifice schemes..

[Daffodils2023]

Hi, can anyone help me on the tax efficient savings that companies offer their employees, particulary Car Salary Sacrifice? The reason I'm asking is my ex has a Salary Package of £85k but the Child Maintenance Service are only taking into consideration £71k, they apparently get their figures direct from HMRC so I am trying to work out if it is the Car Salary Sacrifice which is bringing down the taxable income figure with HMRC. He works for a large company on payroll so there isn't any self-assessment. All I can think of is that it is the Car that is billed on the Companies benefits blurb as being a "tax efficient savings scheme"..... Anyone up on tax and can understand whether this is what is happening here? Ive applied for a Variations on the grounds of "Additional Income" and "Diverted Income" but they've rejected it by saying that I havent provided enough evidence... I provided a copy of his salary package and benefits and they said they only get their figures from HMRC, but if its a tax efficient saving presumably it isn't evident in the HMRC figures?

I have a similar situation. My exH started playing silly buggers with maintenance so I involved cms. His income was around £120k when they looked in 2020. Review this January and he managed to reduce maintenance by £6. I guarantee he hasn't had a salary decrease so I think he's used a salary sacrifice scheme to avoid paying any more. He even told me in an email that he was considering doing this. I told cms that I had a strong suspicion he was sacrificing his income to avoid paying maintenance deliberately and they basically said 'unless there's direct evidence, we won't investigate'.

This is a man who withheld £600 a month for about 5 years because he didn't agree with cms calculations.

Good luck op. I imagine they won't bother looking into it unless you have direct, incontrovertible evidence.