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I am looking for some advice on behalf of my partner, please.
So my missus has a kid from a previous relationship, where they used daycare for approximately three years and received the child subsidy to do so.
Obviously, when taking advantage of such schemes you are required to declare income and therefore tax when the time comes. The issue we are having is that my partners ex is refusing to do his tax for those years, so because Centrelink cannot confirm how much they earn as a couple, my partner and therefore I, are being forced to pay the money they received back. He was removed from the Centrelink account when they first separated, and the separation has been declared, yet we are still receiving notices indicating it is his tax that is the reason for why we are being charged.
The ex won’t help with the payments and keeps insisting that he has lodged his tax for those years (he has his own business), but we are still the ones being targeted by Centrelink. We’re looking at a substantial amount to pay back and every time we try and sort it out through Centrelink they just tell us we need to pay it, which doesn’t seem very fair.
Thanks!
It's taken me 4 years to resolve this issue, except I'm the mother, and then split as a SP. I can't compel my ex to do his taxes, and to be honest, baby mamma 1 seems to get all his tax return anyway, despite not being entitled to it. But that's a whole other story. I ended up with a 9k ccb bill, which eventually, after several appeals, was reduced to 4.5k. I'll make the final repayment next week. My advice is to get record numbers of all calls as that is the only thing that I had that meant I was found to have been in the right. We recorded our split, and we had literally only been together for 16 days in the 2020/21 FY, yet I was liable for 3 years of daycare costs. Because I'd repeatedly called when I got letters and asked their advice (which was non existent) I could show I was trying to resolve the issue. In the end, someone literally pressed a button and it hasn't been an issue since. But so much wasted time in calls to Centrelink and it kills me.
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Every time I spoke to someone, they agreed with me, that there was no way that I could make him do his taxes, and it would get moved along, and did for 2 years before it got resolved. Then, less than 12 months ago, I had a letter saying that my payments were retrospectively cancelled and I owed $16k... Because I'd already been through the appeals, that was fixed within hours... But it's time that we shouldn't have to spend fixing things that are out of our control...