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I recently moved in with my girlfriend and her daughter. I contacted the CMS who said there would be no reduction in the maintenance as my girlfriends daughter has not been registered with the child benefit office at our address since September 2013. My girlfriends daughter has only ever lived at the address we now live at. My girlfriend spilt up with her ex in August 2013. I think he told the child benefit their daughter was living with him so he could get a reduction in the amount of maintenance he was paying to one of his ex’s. The problem is my girlfriend has been earning over £50,000 for the last 4 years so if we tell the child benefit office that her daughter has lived at our address all along we’ll get a tax bill of about £4,000. Is there an easy way out of this? Could we tell the Child benefit office that my girlfriends daughter has been at our address since October 2018 or something? Then we’d have to register for self assessment this October and declare it next January.
Surely if she tells the CB office, that she were unaware that the ex was claiming the CB, that her child has always lived with her and she didn’t claim herself as she was aware that her income took her above the threshold for entitlement.
She can also ask them to acknowledge that although she isn’t in receipt of child benefit, it’s only because she is a high earner, they may be able to let the CMS know that they should take account of the child as living at your address for the purpose of calculating your liability.
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