Rent a Room Relief Declaration to Revenue

If I owned a house jointly with my husband and we wanted to rent out a room in our house under the rent a room relief scheme for under the €14,000 per year how does it work when you declare to Revenue.

If we rented a room out for say €4000 per year, do we both have declare €4000 to Revenue separately, €2000 each separately, or just one of us declare the lot, whichever of us is receiving it into our bank account? We are married filing separately, both have separate bank accounts. House jointly owned.

Both of us are PAYE and would have never had any other type of income in the past so would have never needed to file any returns.

I have the same query. Does anyone know if (married couple, assessed individually) we split it 50/50 and declare it that way or does one person declare the full amount, or do we both have to declare the full amount?

I used to do our tax returns for rental income under my husband's name. When I moved to an accountant he filed us seperately splitting everything in two.

Not sure if it's a mega deal putting all the income under one person's name as there is no tax due on it. But there is no way it should be 4K on each return.

I'm pretty sure you can do either - claim it all in one name or share it (at whatever portion) among the owners, as long as each person and each property is below the threshold.

As long as the amount is Tax Free it shouldn't matter. My own take on this is that the Revenue wants people to include it on tax returns even though there's no tax due because in future years they may tax this going forward and they have a data base.

Thanks all.

Alkers86 said:

As long as each person and each property is below the threshold.

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Is the relief amount of 14k/annum per home/household or per owner of the home/household?

"....because in future years they may tax this going forward and they have a data base"

If this happens, a lot of people will get hurt. Its possible, but would lead to financial hardship and sales of property.

fistophobia said:

"....because in future years they may tax this going forward and they have a data base"

If this happens, a lot of people will get hurt. Its possible, but would lead to financial hardship and sales of property.

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Revenue doing similar with minding kids in the minders house I believe. Another data base to consider no doubt going forward. Otherwise why do they want to do a tax return when nothing's due?

noproblem said:

Revenue doing similar with minding kids in the minders house I believe. Another data base to consider no doubt going forward. Otherwise why do they want to do a tax return when nothing's due?

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So that the government can know / estimate what the cost of the exemption is...?

fooberry said:

Thanks all.



Is the relief amount of 14k/annum per home/household or per owner of the home/household?

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It's per household but you can only claim it on your main home so you can't claim it off two households in any case.