{"id":3831,"date":"2021-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/can-you-claim-the-marriage-allowance\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:00:00","slug":"can-you-claim-the-marriage-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/can-you-claim-the-marriage-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you claim the marriage allowance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent news story published on the GOV.UK website, HMRC confirmed that nearly 1.8 million married couples and those in civil partnerships are claiming the Marriage Allowance to save up to &pound;252 a year in Income Tax.<\/p>\n<p>The allowance enables married couples or those in civil partnerships to share their personal tax allowances if one partner earns an income under their Personal Allowance threshold of &pound;12,570 and the other is a basic rate taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>They can transfer 10% of their tax-free allowance to their partner, which is &pound;1,260 in the 2021-22 tax year. It means couples can reduce the tax they pay by up to &pound;252 a year. Couples can also backdate their claims for any of the four previous tax years, which could be worth up to &pound;1,220.<\/p>\n<p>If you are eligible, and still not making a claim, you can complete an application online at https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/apply-marriage-allowance.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent news story published on the GOV.UK website, HMRC confirmed that nearly 1.8 million married couples and those in civil partnerships are claiming the Marriage Allowance to save up to &pound;252 a year in Income Tax. The allowance enables married couples or those in civil partnerships to share their personal tax allowances if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","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=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}