Married couples allowance?

[Buffman]

^In the case of self employed business however....
Just pay your wife 30k and yourself 30k Sorted :

(even if its just one person that does all the work)

 

[Admiral Huddy]

So to conclude, there are literally no advantages to marriage?

From a monetary perspective no,but then if people are only getting married for this reason, then they shouldn't be getting married at all.

Whole idea of MPA is daft as brush.

 

[Haggisman]

So to conclude, there are literally no advantages to marriage?

Correct.

Not really accurate, that!

Actually it's perfectly accurate, unless you know something we don't?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I wish they'd bring the married couples allowance back. We have a stupid situation in this country.

Family 1 - Both people work and they earn £30k PA each.
Takehome = £46704 per year as a family

Family 2 - Mum earns £60k PA but dad is a stay at home dad to look after the children.
Takehome = £41941 per year as a family

Both families earn the same gross amount but family 2 takes home nearly £5k less per year.

Next year in family 2 you'll be able to transfer a whopping £1000 of you personal allowance to your partner.

If I stopped work, I couldn't claim JSA because my partner earns too much.

That's wrong - you can claim contribution based JSA even if your partner earns £1mil as long as you personally have paid enough NI - it's not means tested. However, if you haven't paid enough NI then you can only claim income based JSA - which is means tested as a household.