INFORMATION
JULY 2013
In order to maintain their registration status, teachers are required to pay an annual GTCWregistration fee. The fee year runs from 1 April to 31 March each year.
The current fee is £45. The fee is eligible for tax relief. The full fee is payable to the GTCW with the tax relief claimed by teachers from the Inland Revenue. This does not affect teachers’ ability to claim tax relief on existing teacher association or Union subscriptions. To claim tax relief, teachers should contact their local tax office.
There is no reduced fee for those teachers who work parttime hours or who work for only part of the fee year, therefore all registered teachers are required to pay the full fee each year.
Teachers employed by a local authority or school are entitled to receive an allowance of £33 towards the cost of their registration fee. The £33 payment is based on a recommendation by the School Teachers' Review Body and therefore applies solely to those employed under the provisions of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document
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‘Relevant bodies’ (local authorities or voluntary aided/foundation schools) are required to make a single payment of £33 to every qualified teacher employed in their school or service between 1 April and 31 March. This payment applies to parttime and occasional supply teachers and is not reduced on any pro rata basis. Schools and local authorities are required to ensure that teachers employed at more than one school only receive this payment once. Funding is made available to local authorities and voluntary-aided/foundation schools to enable them to fulfil their legal obligation.
Supply teachers should approach the school in which they work most frequently to ascertain what arrangements are in place for the payment of their GTCW fee.
Agency supply teachers are not, however, eligible for the single payment of £33, although they are required to pay the GTCW fee. Where a teacher does not receive the £33 payment, this does not affect that teacher’s obligation to pay the GTCW fee and the implications of non-payment may include removal from the register.
In Wales, teachers in the maintained sector, other than supply teachers, pay their registration fee though automatic deduction from salary by their employer. Supply teachers and teachers working outside the maintained sector receive a request for payment by cheque or direct debit.
Further information on GTCW fee payment and tax relief in Wales is available from:
GTCW Payment Information (July 2013)_LS128 October 2018
Created: 4 July 2013/LS&SA
Revised: 10 July 2013/SA