{"id":2643,"date":"2015-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev1.2facearts.com\/index.php\/the-marriage-allowance\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:00:00","slug":"the-marriage-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/the-marriage-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage Allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFrom 6 April 2015 married couples (and civil partners) will be able to register for the MA.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf your income is less than &pound;10,600 in the 2015 to 2016 tax year, you may be able to reduce your husband, wife or civil partner&rsquo;s tax by up to &pound;212.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe new Marriage Allowance will let you transfer some of your Personal Allowance to your partner. This is the amount of income people can get before paying tax.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Who will be eligible?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tYou&rsquo;ll be able to claim Marriage Allowance if <u>all<\/u> the following apply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tyou&rsquo;re married or in a civil partnership<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tyou have an annual income of less than &pound;10,600 &#8211; including pensions, savings and investments<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tyour spouse or civil partner has an annual income of between &pound;10,601 and &pound;42,385<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tyou were both born on or after 6 April 1935<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tIf you or your partner were born before 6 April 1935, you may be able to claim Married Couple&rsquo;s Allowance instead.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf both partners are paying tax at the 20% rate their personal allowance will be fully utilised against their own income and there will be no advantage making an MA claim.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe allowance will only benefit partnerships where one spouse has income below the tax personal allowance, presently &pound;10,600 for 2015-16, and the other partner\/spouse does not pay income tax at the 40% rate.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 6 April 2015 married couples (and civil partners) will be able to register for the MA. If your income is less than &pound;10,600 in the 2015 to 2016 tax year, you may be able to reduce your husband, wife or civil partner&rsquo;s tax by up to &pound;212. The new Marriage Allowance will let you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}