Non Automatic Renewal (Info)

Claimants who do not qualify for an automatic renewal are required to reply to an Annual Declaration. This is known as non-automatic renewal.

Non-automatic renewals include claimants

• Who are awarded Child Tax Credit ( CTC) family element only and have also been awarded the baby element

• Who are not due all of the family element

• Who are receiving the maximum amount of Working Tax Credit ( WTC) and / or CTC

• Whose WTC and / or CTC (other than the family or baby element) is partly tapered

• Whose award has not been signed

• Annual Review form, TC603(R)

And

• Annual Declaration form, TC603(D)

Claimants who gave an estimate of income for PY-1 when they made their claim for tax credits in PY and have not provided actual income for PY-1, do not qualify for automatic renewal. These claimants will be issued with an

• Annual Review form, TC603(R)

And

• Annual Declaration form, TC603D2, which will ask them to confirm their actual income for PY-1 and their income for PY

A reply is required to the form TC603D or TC603D2 by the 1st specified date (1SD). The reply to the form TC603D or TC603D2 is also known as the S17 Declaration.

If a reply to the form TC603D is not received by the 1SD, the computer will automatically terminate the Current Year and finalise the Previous Year using the information already held.

Claimants who do qualify for automatic renewal will only be issued with the Annual Review form TC603(R).  For further guidance see Automatic Renewal.