Child Benefit
(asked on 20th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been required to repay child benefit under the High Income Child Benefit Charge each year since that charge was introduced.
This question was answered on 6th March 2019
Estimates of the numbers paying the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) in respect of each tax year since 2012-13 are shown in the table below.
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Thousands | 360 | 366 | 319 | 296 | 289 | 279 |