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Income Tax Act 2007

Tax credits paid in cash - Entitlements under family scheme

MC 4: Second requirement: principal care

You could also call this:

“You must be the main caregiver for dependent children”

You need to be the main caregiver for one or more children who depend on you. This is the second thing you must do to get tax credits paid in cash. The law calls this being the ‘principal caregiver’. To understand who can be a principal caregiver, you can look at section MC 2.

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Part M Tax credits paid in cash
Entitlements under family scheme

MC 4Second requirement: principal care

  1. The second requirement is that the person referred to in section MC 2 is the principal caregiver for 1 or more dependent children.

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