Petition · past parliament
Change criteria for child benefit tax to be based on household annual income
Closed
323 signatures
What the petition asks
Currently if a single person earns over £50k a year they have to pay a tax charge on child benefit, earn over £60k and you have to pay more tax than child benefit so there is no point claiming it. If two people living in the same house earn £49k each a year they do not have to pay the tax charge.
It seems incredibly unfair and wrong that a household with just one working parent or single parent family earning £50k - £60k have to pay a tax charge, anything over that the tax charge outweighs the child benefit so there is no point in claiming it. But if two parents with a joint income of £98k do not have to pay a penny and are entitled to the full amount of child benefit.
Timeline
| 19 Oct 2015 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 19 Apr 2016 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
323
Status
Closed
Opened
19 Oct 2015
Closed
19 Apr 2016
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.