That’s beyond cynical.
It seems very heavy for the amounts involved. It's a huge gap between what is expected from PAYE taxpayer for small amounts compared to self-employed taxpayers for quite large amounts.By doing that, they’re ensuring a significant number of people won’t claim what they’re entitled to.
Maybe screen shots of all receipts in a single document. Would the account summary page from the supplier website work? This would show all the payments made on the account.I wonder could you comply by doing up a dummy receipt with the total on it?
I'd recommend testing this, as there's a 2MB upload file size limit.Good thinking Batman
Scan in all the receipts into a PDF and just upload one PDF
Brendan
Thought about that, but then what date to put in as payment made?Maybe screen shots of all receipts in a single document. Would the account summary page from the supplier website work? This would show all the payments made on the account.
Laya provide something like this per year for any claims, it lists each claim, category (e.g. GP, Physio, Other therapy), the date of the receipt and amount refunded. I thought about using this. Maybe it wouldn't matter if you just picked one date and uploaded that with the total amount & total amount refunded for eligible categories.As an aside, I had to use a physio for a long while over the years. Rather than get a receipt each time I would email him at well into the new year and ask him for a single receipt which he did. It listed each date and amount paid for the full calender year. I asked my doctor (well his secretary) for something similar but gave up on the third Homer blink.
Tip to make this less of a pain, merge the bills into a single multi-page PDF and then just upload this once to Revenue. Google "merge pdf", there's lots of free websites that'll do it quickly and easily.That's very disheartening on the remote working front. Not looking forward to uploading 6+ electric bills, 12 broadband bills and a couple of oil receipts... Oh yes, this is so much easier than before, just like they said in the budget
Last year was actually reasonably painless once you totted up how much you had spent and how many days you worked, I thought.
Update from Revenue:
Taxpayers can make a claim for health expenses in one of two ways:
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- By filing an income tax return: in this instance the claim is made after the end of the relevant tax year. There is a requirement to retain back up documentation for claims made for 6 years in the event of any follow-up queries. Alternatively, where a taxpayer has uploaded supporting documentation via the Revenue Receipts Tracker, and has opted to save the information to Revenue storage, such information is prefilled to his or her tax return to assist in the completion and filing of the return. Receipts saved to Revenue storage do not need to be retained for 6 years.
- By making a claim ‘in -year’: earlier this year Revenue launched a facility to claim tax credits in ‘real-time’ i.e. at the time you incur the expense. Such claims can be made via myAccount and the facility is currently available in respect of health expenses and nursing home expenses. To make a claim for either of these credits in ‘real-time’ the taxpayer is required to upload a readable image of his or her receipt(s) to the Receipts Tracker. Receipts are required in this instance as the amount claimed increases the taxpayer’s current year tax credits for which he or she will see a benefit in his or her next payroll payment from his or her employer. Further information on ‘real time’ credits can be found here.
Revenue expects to expand the number of tax credits that can be claimed in ‘real-time’ in 2022, including remote working relief.
Good to get clarity, you still have ask the question though why Revenue are taking a different approach? If the relief is granted real time, or on a deferred basis, it shouldn't change the requirement to upload a receipt.
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