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single parent tax credits

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  • #62
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    It's a rotten law but they're covered discrimination wise as it doesn't distinguish between genders, only between primary and secondary carers.

    Unfortunately for the vast majority of single / separated fathers they are the secondary carers.

    The old credit was being defrauded to the tune of millions of euros every year, but the new system sees all the genuine single fathers who pay their maintenance / travel costs to see their children punished equally to those who were cheating the system.

    The right way would be for proper penalties to be put in place for those who defraud the system and leave the credit as it was for those deserving. If you were living with your partner and kids but risked a €5,000 mandatory fine if caught you wouldn't be as quick to claim the credit.


  • #63
    backwithabang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭backwithabang


    Hi All

    And full apologies for resurrecting an thread.

    This law change is still very unfair to single fathers. I myself being one actually costs me a lot more than a cohabiting couple, my 2 kids have fitted out bedrooms in my house, all the toys they need, xbox, food, come to me every weekend, i do all their sports etc. pay 230 per week, pay their Laya insurance, pay half all their sports, pay 250 per child for school (still primary) and another 200 per child at xmas. Santa still comes to my house before anyone says anything. But yet i have to plead every year with the mother to relinquish the SPCC credit and i am at her mercy on it. So frustrating.

    I brought back this thread, because on my tax form i noticed that the SPCC credits are there for 2025. So i did some digging and i cannot find an answer on it. Do i need to apply for the credit each year and does my ex have to relinquish it? I dont want hassle a year or 2 down the line if i needed signed documents, i would rather go through the pain of trying to get them signed.

    thanks in advance



  • #64
    marilynrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭marilynrr


    If the credit is relinquished to you then you keep it until she applies to get it back, and if she does that she doesn't get it back until January.

    If you had to plead to get it back every year then she must have been telling revenue she wanted it back at some point each year, maybe last year she forgot?

    Although I relinquished it to my ex years ago, and I do remember at one point he asked me if I had taken it back as he wasn't getting it any more and I said no and that it must be a mistake, so he contacted them and they told him they couldn't tell him if I had taken it back or not because of GDPR, but he said that I definitely hadn't so could they check because there must have been some mistake and then they rectified it for him without me having to do anything, so sometimes mistakes can be made!



  • #65
    deejay1969
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭deejay1969


    Expartner relinquished SP credit in 2019 and I surrendered it in Jan 2024 after I remarried in Dec 2024. Revenue have contacted saying I did not get the form signed in 2023 & have issued me with a tax bill of €2400! This contravenes all their guidance on this. I wrote to Revenue challenging what they have done and not responded. Tax appeals commission is my only option now.



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