Taxed on Expenses

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margaret1

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I paid tax on expenses (hotel/train/meals) at attend a training course. Is it possible to record these expenses taxes on form 11 or are the expenses considered as income earned by revenue?
 
Where to begin ?

Expenses are costs, presumably what you mean is that your employer gave you money to pay for hotel/train/ meals. So you received the money and paid the cost. In general these things pass through, (income-cost= zero) and so no tax is payable.

However there are some restrictions on what costs are allowed in these circumstances.

You seem to have paid tax on the money you received already, how ? Via PAYE?

Whatever mechanism taxed you should recognise the cost and reduce your tax by the allowable amount.

The form 11 due in by Tuesday is for 2016.

You would need to provide more detail to get a more detailed reply.
 
Thank you cremeegg. I have form 11 ready to submit & just wanted to check this one question first. Yes, it was through PAYE. I initially paid for the expenses (hotel/train/meals), submitted expenses to the company and they reimbursed me. I paid tax on the expenses I claimed, they said revenue had new rules re expenses & taxes it was something to do with "normal place of work". I just wanted to check if there somewhere on form 11 I can input the tax paid on expenses.

I was reimbursed €349.05 expenses and paid PAYE 62.48 on same.

Thanks.
 
I agree that a Form 12 rather than a Form 11 would be needed to claim tax relief. However if the deduction was correctly made in the first place then there is no point in filling in any tax return.

It does seem a little unlikely that there would be a deduction in this case. It is correct that there is no tax deduction available for travel to your "normal place of work" But if your employer sent you away to stay in a hotel then travel expenses would seem to be deductable.

I think your first call is back to your payroll dept. Why did they need to tax you on the expenses? "something to do with" is not an explanation.
 
Revenue have confirmed that it should be form 12 ok on PAYE MyAccounts. I will contact the payroll department to clarify why expenses incurred are taxable income. Thank you for all your replies.
 
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