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Updates: Tax-Free Childcare Technical Manual

2023

21 August 2023 published amendments

Recovering top-up payments: following a Universal Credit award made on review

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minor grammar update

Overview and purpose: the purpose and structure of the Tax-Free Childcare Technical Manual

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Penalties: time limits to make an assessment and pay a penalty

grammar update

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Qualifying payments: variation of maximum amount of qualifying payment and delay in payment of allowance

MINOR GRAMMAR UPDATE

Responsible for a child: what is local authority care

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Self-employed person: relevant earnings threshold

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Responsible for a child: disabled child

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Persons not treated as being in the UK: persons subject to immigration control

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Entitlement: conditions of eligibility

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Compensatory payments: circumstances when HMRC must make compensatory payments

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Right of appeal: reviews and appeals where there is more than one eligible person

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Right of appeal: introduction

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Reviews and appeals: appealable decisions

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Disqualification orders: introduction

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Penalties: maximum amount of penalty for making a prohibited payment

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Assessment and enforcement of recoverable top-up payments: joint liability to pay the assessed amount

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Assessment and enforcement of recoverable top-up payments: time limits to make an assessment and pay the assessed amount

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Recovering top-up payments: failure to close a relevant childcare scheme (by giving a childcare account notice)

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Recovering top-up payments: following a Universal Credit award made on appeal

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Recovering top-up payments: following a tax credit award made on appeal

minor grammar update

Recovering top-up payments: following a tax credit award made on review

minor spelling and grammar update

Power to obtain information or documents (information notices): warning notices

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Power to obtain information or documents (information notices): information from a childcare provider

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Power to obtain information or documents (information notices): information from the claimant

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18 August 2023 published amendments

Termination of a tax credit claim: warning notice following a new tax credit claim

minor grammar update

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Qualifying payments: variation of maximum top-up when a child is no longer a qualifying child

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Childcare accounts: relevant debts

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Childcare accounts: recovery of debts not related to Tax-Free Childcare

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Childcare accounts: withdrawals from childcare accounts

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Childcare accounts: permitted and prohibited payments from childcare accounts

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Childcare accounts: imposing restrictions on childcare accounts

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Childcare accounts: opening a childcare account

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Childcare accounts: childcare account fees

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Childcare accounts: childcare account providers

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Registered and approved childcare: powers to exclude childcare from approved childcare

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Registered and approved childcare: meaning of ministry of defence approved childcare provider

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Registered and approved childcare: registered and approved childcare in Northern Ireland

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Registered and approved childcare: registered and approved childcare in Scotland

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Registered and approved childcare: registered and approved childcare in Wales

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Registered and approved childcare: registered and approved childcare in England

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Qualifying childcare: introduction

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Qualifying childcare: definition of qualifying childcare

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Declarations of eligibility: reconfirming declarations

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Declarations of eligibility: making a declaration of eligibility

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Other customers who cannot make a TFC declaration: residents of prescribed states receiving childcare support

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Other customers who cannot make a TFC declaration: Universal Credit recipients

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Entitlement: absences from work due to caring, incapacity for work or limited capacity for work – treated as being in qualifying paid work

Minor grammar update

Entitlement: Statutory Maternity Pay, Maternity Allowance, Statutory Maternity Leave, Statutory Paternity and Adoption Leave, Statutory Sick Pay and Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay – treated as being in qualifying paid work

Minor grammar update

minor grammar update

Self-employed person: start-up periods

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Self-employed person: expected income

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Employed person: relevant earning threshold for a person who only works part of the year

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Employed person: relevant earning threshold for income earned but not paid within the 3-month eligibility period

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Employed person: relevant earnings thresholds

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Entitlement: qualifying paid work

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Responsible for a child: disabled child

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Responsible for a child: what is local authority care

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Residence rules: crown servants and members of His Majesty’s forces posted abroad

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Residence rules: present in the UK

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Entitlement: conditions of eligibility

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Overview and purpose: overview and purpose of Tax-Free Childcare (TFC)

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Title updated with correct capitalisation

Overview and purpose: the purpose and structure of the Tax-Free Childcare Technical Manual

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7 August 2023 published amendments

Penalties: penalties for making prohibited payments

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Penalties: penalties for inaccuracies

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Recovering top-up payments: failure to close a relevant childcare scheme (by giving a childcare account notice)

hyperlink updated

Childcare accounts: recovery of anything other than a recoverable top-up payment

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Childcare accounts: recovery of debts from a childcare account

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Childcare accounts: refunds of payments from childcare accounts

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Other customers who cannot make a TFC declaration: Universal Credit recipients

spelling and grammar updated

spelling and grammar updated

Entitlement: conditions of eligibility

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hyperlink updated

spelling and grammar updated

Recovering top-up payments: following a Universal Credit award made on appeal

spelling and grammar updated

Recovering top-up payments: following a Universal Credit award made on review

spelling and grammar updated

Termination of a tax credit claim: warning notice following a new tax credit claim

spelling and grammar updated

spelling and grammar updated

Childcare accounts: imposing restrictions on childcare accounts

spelling and grammar updated

Other customers who cannot make a TFC declaration: residents of prescribed states receiving a credit similar to Universal Credit

spelling and grammar updated

Compensatory payments: circumstances when HMRC must make compensatory payments

spelling and grammar updated

spelling and grammar updated

Right of appeal: reviews and appeals where there is more than one eligible person

spelling and grammar updated

Disqualification orders: effect and maximum length of a disqualification order

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Recovering top-up payments: other cases

spelling and grammar updated

Qualifying payments: variation of maximum amount of qualifying payment and delay in payment of allowance

spelling and grammar updated

Childcare accounts: closure of childcare accounts

spelling and grammar updated

Childcare accounts: opening a childcare account

spelling amended

spelling and grammar updated

Registered and approved childcare: what is not registered or approved childcare

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Registered and approved childcare: registered and approved childcare outside the UK

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Registered and approved childcare: registered and approved childcare in Wales

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Registered and approved childcare: meaning of a relative

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Other customers who cannot make a TFC declaration: meaning of other childcare support

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Self-employed person: start-up periods

spelling and grammar updated

Employed person: expected income

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Persons not treated as being in the UK: person not ordinarily resident in the UK

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Residence rules: meaning of a close relative

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Residence rules: temporary absence from the UK – general rules

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Residence rules: exceptions to the ordinarily residence rules

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Residence rules: present in the UK

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2 August 2023 published amendments

Reviews and appeals: review of decision: contents

title updated in correct format

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Overview and purpose: contents

changed to published in error and have reverted to draft

Right of appeal: contents

short title updated for easier navigation