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Tax-Free childcare in the school holidays

1st July 2019 By bespoketax

Tax-Free childcare in the school holidays

As the school holidays fast approach, many parents face having to organise extra school holiday childcare over the summer months.

HMRC is reminding parents that the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme can help if you have children aged 0-11 years old. The TFC scheme helps support working families with their childcare costs and can be used to pay for regulated holiday clubs during the school holidays. More than 68,000 registered childcare providers including school, football, art and tennis clubs have signed up across the UK. Parents can pay into their account regularly and save up their TFC allowance to use during school holidays.

The TFC scheme provides for a government top-up on parental contributions. For every £8 contributed by parents an additional £2 top up payment will be funded by the Government up to a maximum total of £10,000 per child per year. This will give parents an annual savings of up to £2,000 per child (and up to £4,000 for disabled children until the age of 17) in childcare costs.

The TFC scheme is open to all qualifying parents including the self-employed and those on a minimum wage. The scheme is also available to parents on paid sick leave as well as those on paid and unpaid statutory maternity, paternity and adoption leave. In order to be eligible to use the scheme, parents will have to be in work at least 16 hours per week and earn at least the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage. If either parent earns more than £100,000, both parents are unable to use the scheme.

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, said:

'We understand making arrangements for summer childcare at this time of year is important and can be a stressful time for parents. Tax-Free Childcare makes things easier, putting more money in the pockets of parents and supporting as many families as possible to secure high-quality, affordable childcare.'

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Tax-Free childcare in the school holidays

27th June 2018 By bespoketax

Tax-Free childcare in the school holidays

The results of a new YouGov poll published by HMRC has revealed that some 30% of parents polled are worried about balancing their job and school holiday childcare, and 54% of parents admitted they look forward to their children returning to school in September

HMRC is reminding parents that the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme can help. The TFC scheme helps support working families with their childcare costs and can be used to pay for regulated holiday clubs during the school holidays. The TFC scheme provides for a government top-up on parental contributions. For every 80p in the £1 contributed by parents an additional 20p or 20%, will be funded by Government up to a maximum total of £10,000 per child per year. This will give parents annual savings of up to £2,000 per child (and up to £4,000 for disabled children until the age of 17) in childcare costs.

More than 58,000 registered childcare providers including school, football, art and tennis clubs have signed up across the UK. Parents can pay into their account regularly and save up their TFC allowance to use during school holidays. There is also an additional 30 hours free childcare available for working parents of 3 and 4 year olds in England.

The TFC scheme is open to all qualifying parents including, the self-employed and those on a minimum wage. The scheme is also available to parents on paid sick leave as well as those on paid and unpaid statutory maternity, paternity and adoption leave. In order to be eligible to use the scheme parents will have to be in work at least 16 hours per week and earn at least the national minimum wage or living wage. If either parent earns more than £100,000, both parents are unable to use the scheme.

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, said:

‘Organising childcare for school holidays is important for parents. Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare help make things easier by cuttings thousands of pounds from the childcare bills of working parents.’

Filed Under: HMRC notices

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