I will try to explain.
If the payer has assets other than the house
and business etc etc above £65K then those assets are deemed, for the
purpose of
child support, to generate an income of 8% so, to
quote YA's example, £100,000 would be deemed to produce an income of
£8000.
That figure is then divided by 52 to give a weekly income which
then assessable for
child support.
But the actual income produced by
the assets is disregarded. Or at least that is my reading of the
regulation. That
is the way capital is treated for benefit purposes ; capital above the
threshold is deemed to generate an income of £1 p.w. for each £250 or part
thereof above the threshold. The URL is
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/156/regulation/18/mad
el£8000 divided by 52 equals £153.84 a week. The payer will pay
whatever the percentage happens to be, so if it was 20% he would pay £30.76
extra. That comes, as near as dammit, to the figure calculated by YA. We
have reached the same conclusion by a different route, I think.
I
doubt if that is any clearer but you have the text of the
regulation !
LMM