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<p>The Child Maintenance Service’s definition of income includes almost all sources
of gross income reported to HMRC by company directors or self-employed parents. The
specially trained Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) are able to look into cases where
there is concern about a parent’s income. The FIU has been expanded since it was set
up in 2014; and between July and September 2017 it opened 1100 complex earner investigations.
We recently launched a consultation on our new Child Maintenance Compliance and Arrears
strategy which proposes further improvements to the treatment of the income of complex
earners, such as high value assets owned by a parent being used to create a notional
income.</p>
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