Child Benefit Higher income charge

[Yorkshiremum80]

My husband earns 74K and so has been doing a tax assessment every year to pay back what he owes in child benefit. He did it as normal this year, all good. However he has had a message from HMRC saying going forward he no longer needs to. Has anyone else had this or have any idea why?

The thresholds have changed so presumably he is within the limit not to repay.

Pension reduces the income along with certain other things. That said if his income has increased ignore them and still do the form

He's still over the threshold.
Just found it apparently it will start coming out via PAYE https://www.maco.co.uk/news/new-paye-process-for-high-income-child-benefit-charge/

He is well over the newer threshold of £60k unless he pays lots into pension as pp have said. Could it be that HMRC have started to deduct via his PAYE now?

Oh snap 😁

Missed the above post re. PAYE.

As well as having people repay by PAYE, they're also implementing a simpler system to allow people to report what they owe without self assessment.

I got this message too but I'm still going to do the SA as I don't trust HMRC not to fuck it up.

SA doesn't just sort out your HICB it also catches any tax over or under payments. My payroll team are in a non UK country so I have the fear about this in general.

And also, you've always had the option of paying back CB via a tax code adjustment. This isn't really news.