expenses (employed) - how do i claim back?

mrbg07546

I work for a company at home(not self employed), however i have expenses from heating electricity etc, how do i go about claiming these expenses back.

i heard i can somehow and it depends on the number of rooms i have in house??

any ideas?

fengirl_2

For employees, there is a fixed allowance of £3pw for the use of a room at home, but your contract of employment must specify that you are home based. You need to write to your tax office to make this claim.

Merlin_Accounts

You can indeed claim for using your home for work purposes, particularly if, as Fengirl says, your employer has it in your contract that you are required to do so.

The HMRC rate of £3 is not actually a maximum limit, but claiming more than this would require detailed record keeping.

There has actually been a lot written about claiming for use of home as office (and there is some good guidance on AccountingWeb for this, as well as on HMRC's website). In essence you can indeed claim a proportion of your household bills. I suggest that you look on the websites I mentioned abover and I'm sure you will find what you need.

mrbg07546

fengirl wrote: »

For employees, there is a fixed allowance of £3pw for the use of a room at home, but your contract of employment must specify that you are home based. You need to write to your tax office to make this claim.

OK

i need to claim my phone line rental - i can get internet print offs of payments from telephone provider

i also bought a new lcd for my pc, can i use receipt...
plus heating and electricty which my mum pays, can i use them reciepts...

would this be ok??

now if it is what form do i use to claim

robpitt

The lcd monitor however isn't an expense, it would be a capital allowance in which case you could potentially write off a proportion of it per year (20% if exclusively used for buisiness).

Read this:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/tax-allow-ees.htm

Cazza

If you work for someone else, shouldn't you be claiming your phone line rental and new LCD back via your payroll??

fengirl_2

Cazza is correct. HMRC may well query why your employer is not paying for these costs if they are really essential to your job.