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Official guidance
Tax Credits Technical Manual

TCTM07000 · Calculation of entitlement

  • TCTM07001 · Introduction to award calculations
  • TCTM07010 · Overview of steps in an award calculation
  • TCTM07020 · Step 1 - establishing the award period and the relevant period
  • TCTM07030 · Step 2 - Calculating the maximum tax credits for each entitlement period
  • TCTM07040 · Step 3 - determining whether income needs to be taken into account and applying income tapers (Reg 7 & 8)
  • TCTM07050 · Step 4 - Summary for the total tax credits due for each entitlement period
  • TCTM07060 · Definitions - Entitlement, Element, Award period and Relevant period
  • TCTM07070 · Tax Credit Income Thresholds
  • TCTM07APPX1 · The rates and how to use them
  • TCTM07APPX2 · A worked example
  1. Calculation of entitlement: contents
  2. Calculation of entitlement: Step 4 - Summary for the total tax credits due for each entitlement period

TCTM07050 | Calculation of entitlement: Step 4 - Summary for the total tax credits due for each entitlement period

From HM Revenue & Customs · Tax Credits Technical Manual

The Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulation 2002, Regs 7(3) Step 12, and 8(3) Step 8

The actual tax credits entitlement for a relevant period is found by comparing the family’s income for the relevant period with the income threshold for the relevant period.

The total tax credits due for each entitlement period is the sum of the amounts of

  • WTC work elements

  • WTC child care elements

  • CTC child elements

  • CTC family elements

Calculated in step 3 (TCTM07040).

See worked example (TCTM07APPX2)

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