Claiming tax back for tools

markjd27

I'm a commercial vehicle mechanic and have been told i can claim some tax back on any tools i have purchased. Any ideas how i go about this and how fgar back i can go?

sarflee

You can only claim for replacing tools, not the initial outlay. To avoid having to provide receipts each year to the tax office, there is an arrangement to allow a Fixed Rate Expense and include this in your tax code.

I think you can find the rates on the HMRC website. You can go back 6 years to year ended 5 April 2003, however you will need to get your claim in before 5 April 2009 otherwise you will lose out by a year. You usually just send a letter to your tax office advising you are a mechanic and you wish to claim fixed rate expenses going back 6 years or whenever you started as a mechanic, whichever is the later.

You may already have this in your code so it may be worth checking first.

Good luck

loulou123

Im also trying to do this on behalf of my boyfriend, do i need a certain form etc. Ive been looking on the tax website for ages and im lost! :mad:

If anyone has more information, can they please help us out.

fengirl_2

he just needs to write a letter to his tax office saying he is...whatever his job is...and that he beleives he is due the fixed rate expense deduction for that trade or job. He can go back up to 6 years, or the nungber of years he has been doing that job, whichever is shorter.

markjd27

thanks for all that. The company i am with at the moment are based in nottingham do i write to them or my local tax office?

fengirl_2

You write to the tax office which deals with you currently - your payroll dept will be able to give you the details.