Petition · past parliament
Change for High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge to be calculated for families.
Rejected
12 signatures
What the petition asks
Currently any member of a household earning over £50,000 has to re-pay child benefit back to the government; however this penalises households that wish to have one parent earning money and the other caring for children; this is doubly unfair with the loss of transfer of marriage allowance.
The current method looks at an archaic view of income tax and individual allowances for a household.
For a family that has chosen to have one working parent, this is an unnecessary burden on the household finances and penalises the choice that parents wish to make in raising their children.
This proposal is to allow full transfer of unused partner's unused personal allowances between spouses and for the HICBTC threshold to be £100k per household, not £50k per individual.
For a family that has chosen to have one working parent, this is an unnecessary burden on the household finances and penalises the choice that parents wish to make in raising their children.
This proposal is to allow full transfer of unused partner's unused personal allowances between spouses and for the HICBTC threshold to be £100k per household, not £50k per individual.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 3 Apr 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 9 Apr 2021 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
12
Status
Rejected
Rejected
9 Apr 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.