Getting ready to renew your
tax credits
When you get your tax credits renewal pack, you'll need to
check the forms very carefully. This will help make sure the
Tax Credit Office has the right details about your personal
circumstances. To do this, you'll find it helpful to have
the right paperwork to hand.
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What to do when you get your renewal pack
As soon as you get your renewal pack, you need to:
- check the information in the pack
- tell the Tax Credit Office if anything has changed or
if the information shown is wrong
If you have been sent an Annual Declaration form TC603D or
TC603D2 you need to provide the information asked for by 31
July - or the date shown in your pack. You can do this by:
- contacting the Tax Credit Helpline
- returning your completed form to the Tax Credit Office
in the reply envelope provided
You can't provide the information online.
Before you contact the Helpline, get the relevant paperwork
together. Otherwise you may have to ring back if you don't
have it handy.
Contact
details for the Tax Credit Helpline and address of the Tax
Credit Office
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What to do if you don't get a renewal pack
Contact the Tax Credit Helpline if you haven't received your
pack by 30 June 2012.
The Tax Credit Helpline will send you the renewal form you
need. You will get 30 days to return the form. Your payments
will still carry on - even if it is after 31 July. But once
you get your form, make sure you reply by the date that's
shown or your payments will stop.
You can't get a renewal pack online.
Contact
details for the Tax Credit Helpline
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Paperwork about changes in your personal
circumstances
You might find it useful to have the following to hand before
you renew:
- copies of any award notices the Tax Credit Office has
sent you during the year
- a diary or calendar showing important changes, like when
you started a new job, or when your child left school or
college
- bills or receipts showing how much you paid for childcare
during the year
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Paperwork showing your actual income
You will have to give details of your total income - including
your partner’s (if you have one) - in the last year. You may
need the following paperwork, for both yourself and any partner:
- P60 or P45 forms, or payslips showing your total wages
for the year
- P11D or P9D form, if you've had one, showing the value
of any 'benefits in kind' your employer has given you during
the tax year (for example a company car)
- if you're self-employed, your business accounts or your
tax return
- notes of any pension and Gift Aid payments you have made
- ignore payments to occupational pension schemes where
your employer has already deducted your payment from your
wages
- letters or statements from the Department for Work and
Pensions, or Department for Social Development in Northern
Ireland, stating what state pensions or state benefits you
got
- letters from private pension companies, showing what
pension income you got
- bank and building society statements, dividend certificates
and income from trusts certificates
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More useful links
Tax credits:
changes you need to report and when
Tax
credits - what paperwork should you keep?
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