Child care rebate
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Topic: Child care rebate
Posted By: sparkle
Subject: Child care rebate
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 11:30am
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Does anyone know how this works?
Is it for everyone? ie not dependant on your salary? TIA ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 12:05pm
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get a statement from your daycare and fill in a form from IRD - voila! What i want to know is if my DH and I can claim or just one.
Yes, for everyone No not dependant on salary |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 12:36pm
| what if you get a subsidy? do you still get the rebate? |
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 1:13pm
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I'm pretty sure you can each claim it - at least, that's what I'm hoping! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 1:15pm
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The incredibly uninformative IRD site says ..
Tax credits (formerly rebates) for working parents You may apply for a tax credit if you earn a taxable income and: have donated money to a charitable organisation, and/or have paid school fees, and/or have paid for childcare. Fill in a Tax credit claim form (IR526) at the end of the tax year. We will send you a form automatically if you claimed a tax credit in the previous year. After you send the form to us, we calculate how much you are entitled to receive as a tax credit for the year. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 1:35pm
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I don't see why even if you have a subsidy that you couldn't recieved a tax credit cause it's only $330.00 that you get as the full amount. Kinda sucks verses what you actually pay but I suppose at least it's something back. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 1:42pm
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Yes if you get the subsidy you can get the tax credit, as we have always gotten the subsidy and they tax credit. But it aslso depends on how much you pay in daycare. The form does tell you that thou. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 1:53pm
| is that a $330 lumpsum or is the ammount dependant on how much youv payed?? |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 1:54pm
| oh and do they backpay seen as we have been paying for daycare for a few years and never claimed??? |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 2:08pm
| you have to have paid.....i think its around $1000 a year for daycare. We pay $200 a week for semi-full time - both boys on 20 "free" hours but we dont get a subsidy. I think we are both going to apply. |
Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 3:26pm
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And is it the end of the financial year that you claim? So now???
If so I won't qualify by the sounds anyway, have only paid about $300 all up so far this year. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 3:34pm
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Definitely apply Sparkle, you will get a proportion up to the $330.00 so you will probably get all you paid back.
I remember paying I think about $7000 & getting $330 back whoopty sh*t! I thought but it's better than nothing. I can't remember where I got my first form from? Try the IRD website but they send you the forms after that. YOu have to wait until the end of the "year" to get the print out from your childcare place, soon as you get that send it in & you'll have it in about 5 days they are really quick in paying it to a bank account ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com">
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 3:55pm
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I think it's the IR526 - same one as applying for rebates cos of charity giving. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 7:29pm
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I didnt realise you could get the subisdy and never did. Can you get the childcare to fill in a form when you are no longer using them ( I mean for the time we were) |
Posted By: linda
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 7:34pm
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Also, doesn't matter how many kids you have in childcare you only get the rebate once. So we had two kids in creche and still only got the $330.00. Still, its there so we always claim it. Also, only one of you can claim it ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Alex 6 and Harry 8 |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 8:17pm
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yep as i was going to say, opnly one person can claim but if you previously didn't know about it you can get a readout from your daycare from the last 3 years and they will pay out for the last 3 years as long as they haven't previously.. so the first time we found out about this we ended up with just under $1000 which was nice. and yep it's not much but as others have said $300 is $300. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: shelleybean
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 9:49pm
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So even if you get the subsidy you can still ge tthe rebabte - are you sure? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 10:54pm
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Shelley very sure, I have received it for the past 4 years and those 4 years Andrew has been in DC we have receied the subsidy. It just depends on how much you hav paid the DC. They should some time in April give you a printout of your payments for the past financial year. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 11:15pm
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You only get the rebate on the part of the fees YOU have paid, not on the subsidised part.
You get 1/3 of your fees paid back up to a max of $330 for the financial year You can only apply as of April 1st for the financial year just ended, but can apply at any time for previous years, all you need is a reciept from the preschool/daycare stating the amount paid by you You OR your partner can claim the full amount, or you can claim a portion each, but the total per FAMILY is a max of $330, regardless of income. And for those whose kids are at school, but attending after school programmes if you are at work, you can also claim on those after school fees as well. schol fees themselves are classed as donations if it is for a public school, and you can claim 1/3 of them back as well, seperate from the childcare rebate. To get the form, either download one from the IRD website, print it out and send it in, or ring them and ask for a childcare rebate form. Once you have claimed for one year, they will automatically send out forms for the following years. They are usually pretty quick to process it if everything is up to scratch, every year they set up a temporary team especially to process rebates as there are thousands coming in for the first month or so from April 1st onwards. Cant remember what else was asked... and I hear dinner coming lol (yeah I know, its late, but pregnancy can be blamed for many things apparently, including late night runs to the local fast food joints  )------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: shelleybean
Date Posted: 29 March 2009 at 8:38am
thanks girls  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: LouD
Date Posted: 29 March 2009 at 2:18pm
| It was $300 when my DS1 was in childcare 12 years ago and hasnt changed even though childcare would have gone up way more since then..........a bit ridiculous really |