I used to work for an employer that gave us all a 500 euro voucher every Christmas. Completely tax free.
It was worth well over 1,000 gross to those on higher tax band.
I've changed jobs now, but there is no vouchers. And no way to claim a tax credit for it. Completely unfair!
This is equivalent to the comparisons being made above.
What tax credit, there is no tax credit!
I used to work for an employer that gave us all a 500 euro voucher every Christmas. Completely tax free.
It was worth well over 1,000 gross to those on higher tax band.
I've changed jobs now, but there is no vouchers. And no way to claim a tax credit for it. Completely unfair!
This is equivalent to the comparisons being made above.
This post will be deleted if not edited immediately relax. They are talking about introducing/changing tax credits/relief to encourage working from home to stop everyone rushing back to the office. Don't get your pants all in a twist if it is called a tax credit or tax relief.
Can you claim for broadband too or just elec/gas?
This is confusing.
Can a PAYE worker who has been forced to work from home for 3 months get money back from revenue, if their employer does not pay them any extra for working from home?
If so how do they go about getting this money?
I think that is the situation 90% of the workforce are going to be in.
I had to take out new broadband at €50 p.m. in mid March because of working from home - I previously used a cheap mobile broadband package at a a tenner a month - so I was hoping to claim tax relief on more than 10% of the cost of the broadband (ideally the extra cost of €40 p.m.) given it was wholly incurred for WFH - if I can document the start of the new contract in mid-March to coincide with when I started working from home, do you think this would be acceptable?
(€1,750 x No. of e-working days) / 365 days
In my case it would just be the same expenses as the e-working relief is paid for.If you spend money on something that is for both business and private use, you can claim a deduction for part of the expense. This would include items such as phone bills, motor expenses and rent. You must work out how much of the expenditure was for business purposes and claim a deduction for that amount only.
Do employers not reimburse expenses such as these? Like most people, I'm new to the world of WFH so I'm a little confused as to why submitting a claim to an employer for out of pocket expenses wouldn't be the obvious way to recoup costs. I think I must be missing something very obvious to everyone else...
Do employers not reimburse expenses such as these? Like most people, I'm new to the world of WFH so I'm a little confused as to why submitting a claim to an employer for out of pocket expenses wouldn't be the obvious way to recoup costs. I think I must be missing something very obvious to everyone else...
Thanks for clearing that up as it actually wasn't completely clear from the thread (which I did read btwHave you read the thread? Employers can pay up to 3.20 per day, on an unvouched, no questions asked basis.
They can also pay whatever's reasonable, on a vouched, questions very much asked, basis.
What it appears you may be missing, is that there's large swathes of employers with zero interest in doing either of the above-mentioned.
In that instance, the only source of financial recompense available currently is a claim for a deduction against one's income, with a consequent reduction in one's income tax and, all other things being equal, a tax refund.
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