Wash your uniform at home ?

shul558127

Afternoon all I wrote off a letter for my husband who works for Sky and hs done for over 13 years now, anyway long and the short of it is I gave them all the info and requested it to be backdated to previous years and requested any refund by made by cheque, he has recieved his reply today and its just a coding notice for this year, tax wise he is £60 better off this year but where is the rebate is he due one, can anyone help? many thanks, all and big thank you's to the canny moneysavers that posted this up in the beginning, every little really does help :T

Jazee

Sorry if this has already been raised, but my DD has to wear black clothes for work in retail, most supplied by her but jacket supplied by employer. There is no logo. She has to launder the clothes herself, can she claim?

Mikeyorks

shul558127 wrote: »

tax wise he is £60 better off this year

No - the £60 is the allowance. At 20% tax - he will be £12 better off.

but where is the rebate

The calculations will be on their way. The Coding Notice comes from a separate part of the system.

Mikeyorks

Jazee wrote: »

Sorry if this has already been raised, but my DD has to wear black clothes for work in retail, most supplied by her but jacket supplied by employer. There is no logo. She has to launder the clothes herself, can she claim?

Highly unlikely. She can wear the jacket anywhere - and how often would you launder a jacket

Baking_Mad

Does anyone have an exact address for the East Kilbride Inland Revenue please?

Mikeyorks

There's several addresses. Just two of them :

Plaza Tower, East Kilbride G74 1LW
Queensway House, Stewartfield Way, East Kilbride G79 1AA

But if you don't have correspondence and it's PAYE - you should be writing to Liverpool?

HM Revenue & Customs
Pay As You Earn
PO Box 1970
Liverpool
L75 1WX

Baking_Mad

On all OHs pay slips it shows East Kilbride as the companys HM Revenue & Customs office. really not sure which one to write to? if I pick any one of the East Kilbride addresses will it get to the correct dept?

Mikeyorks

alionaear wrote: »

if I pick any one of the East Kilbride addresses will it get to the correct dept?

Probably not. As there's a lot of sub-units operating from EK these days.

Liverpool is the correct address. Just make sure the letter head has the right heading re 'uniform allowance' and the NINO is correct and prominent.

Empty_pockets

Hi,

Just done my letter, can someone check it's ok before I send it off. Is the allowance to be shown as £24 or £60???

Thanks

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R**
5 **
York
YO24 3LX

20th January 2012


Repayment claims
HMRC
Pay as you earn
PO Box 1970
Liverpool
L75 1WX


RE: Expenses Allowance


NI number JR226**
Employee number 867**


Dear Inland Revenue

I have been employed at Network Rail, Milton Keynes as a Possession Controller since 12th October 2009. I was previously employed by Spring Personnel and working at Network Rail between 1st August 2008 and 1st September 2009.

From 1st August 2008 I have been required wear a Network Rail uniform.

I am obliged to launder the uniform, which is supplied to me by the company. There are no laundry facilities available to me. I therefore wish to claim an expenses allowance of £24 for each year since the above date.



Yours Faithfully



R**
20/1/2012

Mikeyorks

The letter is fine.

Looking at the chart (link at post #1) - the basic allowance for 'Railways' (all other workers) appears to be £100 :

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim32712.htm

.......... so that's the figure to go in the letter.

(Incidentally - you would only get £24 out of a £60 allowance if you pay tax into the 40% band. Otherwise it's £12)