General Chat

Has anyone on the site, received an e mail from the tax man, asking them to apply for this allowance, which was due from the 6th April 2015, if so do you have an e mail address? I have registered, received confirmation of this, but nothing since.

No, but rather surprised they emailed you!

This is the link to the .gov.uk page - is this the one you used?
https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance.

If you did, you'll probably have to sit tight - new things often take them by surprise.

http://tiny.cc/4x82yx
Links to http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/

Other sites and forums are highlighting the 'teething problems' with the system
eg http://tiny.cc/q082yx
links to a moneysavingexpert.com forum

Thanks for the info DetEcTive, why surprised? From your comments, clearly I am not alone. The link you quoted was the one I used to register.

Having read how complex the system is, I was surprised that you were *invited* to apply. They seem very quick to take your hard-earned but less so allowing you to reduce your bill. Its always seemed to be the case of 'If you don't ask, you don't get'.

Anyway - hope you get a positive outcome.....at least by the end of the tax year ;-) :-D

I registered an interest on 16th May and received an email immediately saying that they would email me again within 14 weeks when applications open and I will be invited to apply then. They say there is no need to contact them again but I have made a note to chase them up if I haven't heard by end September.

I hope so to, however as you highlighted, they are not the brightest in the box, so no doubt we may well be discussing this next year

I will wait with interest Vera, to see if anything appears in about 12 weeks. :-| :-S

I registered in February.

Eventually got an update in April saying I would be one of the first to be invited to apply..............

not heard anything since :-|

Just watching BBC news on the TV. Their segment about newspaper headlines featured the Daily Mail front page.

It was something about 1000's of people who applied for the married persons allowance being effected by HMRC IT fiasco

HMRC seem to be working on a mass recruitment programme at the moment.
Dau No2 was one of 80 recruits who started training this week.( Scotland)

In this area ,HMRC have started 80 new recruits every week for an 8 week period
. ( Last week was week No 5)
That's a fair amount of new staff in just 8 weeks !

I beieve that all of them will be working in one specific area of the tax system as the existing staff are to be moved on to something else.
I wonder?

I had an email on 19th April saying they would email me when the system was up and running.
I won't hold my breath then ;-) ;-) ;-)

"Register your interest in Marriage Allowance
If your income is £10,600 or less in the 2015 to 2016 tax year, you may be able to reduce your husband, wife or civil partner’s tax by up to £212. The new Marriage Allowance will let you transfer some of your Personal Allowance to your partner. This is the amount of income people can get before paying tax."

£ 4.07 / week or 58p daily. Wow!

Osbourne intends to knock 5p off the higher rate which will be worth quite a few pennies more for those earning > £ 45K. I don't think he is serious about the marriage allowance.

Whilst I agree the amount £212 in itself is not a large amount, it is a step in the right direction, and I will be happy to receive it, as will others.

I continually hear the so called "Progressive" party's using the same old argument regarding the higher tax rate. I agree with the 40p tax rate, if Labour were so concerned about this rate, why did they not raise it to 50p during their 13 years in office, leaving it until a few months before the 2009 election before doing so. I believe the word Hypocritical comes to mind.

If we take an example of a senior manager under the PAYE system earning say £80,000 pa, he will pay in tax and national insurance, approx £30,000, I would say that is a fair contribution.

he won't be a very senior mgr on £ 80 K lol.

Try living in a commuter town 30 miles from London with mortgage, 2 or 3 kids, season ticket and bills to pay ... it is rather more likely that the his/her partner will opt to work rather than opt into the tax goody.

The tories are a bunch of swivel eyed opportunists on the make. They always have been and will never change. They are not fundamentally different to FIFA.

80k would be considered a good salary in this part of the country, although it would not be considered so in London and parts of the south east.

In regard to jobs travel family it has been ever thus, I would imagine most people on this site have gone, or, going through it, but do survive, certainly not easy as I know from personal experience.

Your final paragraph so reminds me of Tony Blair, and many of the Champagne Socialists, who are constantly telling us how they care for the poor and disadvantaged, whilst making a fortune in the process, I do accept however, that not all Labour MP's, or Tory MP's fall into that category.

Find a Tory MP, just one, who does not have a raft of "interests" behind him generating revenue and requiring study visits all over the place.

Eg Chris Chope who manages to kill all and any private members bills though most of the time he is in Brussels busily opposing the EU ( odd that as a Westminster MP ) and lobbying for the veggie tendency.

Find any significant source of Tory funding which does not have its origins offshore. There are none.

Bunch of con men and w-rs eg ex-mp for Braintree Brooks Newmark.

Here is a list of things that the Tories have done for the benefit of the working man excluding financiers and civil lawyers:

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see what I mean ?

Happily the party is already falling apart a month after the General Election.

The tory jibe that any member of the Labour Party who owns two pairs of clogs is a "champagne socialist" is old untrue and tired. Try harder.

fwiw pop into yr local co-op they have some excellent deals in champagne of which they sell a lot. Maybe there are more chj. socialists then I thought though you don't see many Bentleys parked outside..

cheers

I have received an email purportedly from the Tax people saying I am entitled to receive X amount of £. I don't pay tax at all so I'm not sure about this. Are the unscrupulous ones at it again?

Well Rollo, you do not have to look much further than the House of Lords, where all these reluctant Champagne Socialists sit, or, the CEO's of the Large Charities, where they offer their expertise, no doubt for free! The reason many of the Tory's have other interests is due to the fact that many of them actually worked in the private sector, rather than coming from Trade Unions, or, Local Government, which ensured their indoctrination in the Left Wing ideology, the main theme being that they are never wrong!

cheers

Well Phyll, I would ring them, in order to clarify if the e mail you received, was from them, you never know you may be in the money!

Is genes being 'monitored'........ I got my email link this morning!

Now all I've got to do is find a big enough gap in my day to fill it in.