Wash your uniform at home ?

Mikeyorks

Strange - I replied to you earlier but my post appears to have gone walkabout.

The P2 for 2012-13 is correct ...... Code 810 is basic plus £60 = Code 816L.

As regards the £45 refund. I replied to that to point out your figures were wrong ...... but the £45 was basically correct. You will be getting a further £12 through pay this year.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=50478459&postcount=1043

rangersammy

Just got 4 letters from tax office, refund of £91.09 given for washing my work clothes, forester rate. Just wished all my 1/2 hour work was paid so well. Certainly worth the effort. (its just paid for my sons birthday indian takeaway for him and his mates. easy come easy go!!)

Thanks Martin and all you lot who encouraged people through these forums.

zaksmum

My friend works in a shop and has to wear a shirt with the company logo printed on it, but just plain black trousers. Can she claim the laundering allowance for just the shirt? She washes the shirts daily as she works in Hardware and her clothing can get quite dirty.

She also has to wear a name badge with the name of the company alongside her own name.

Mikeyorks

Yes that fits the requirement - for the basic allowance of £60pa.

mo786uk

I did this in December 2010 for the past 6 years.

I got a cheque for £67 and my tax code has been changed for this year.

My claim was for normal uniform - t-shirt/fleece as well as some specialist personal protective clothing.

Laura1206

Mikeyorks wrote: »

Depends what it says on the P800s? If you got more than one then the total refund, for all years, is on the last one (against note 16). £146 is considerably more than the refund for 'uniform' allowance for a single year.

I phoned them, there is another cheque on the way for £59 for a previous year. I claimed for uniform, shoes/tights, professional registration and RCN subscription. Thank you

zaksmum

Mikeyorks wrote: »

Yes that fits the requirement - for the basic allowance of £60pa.

Thanks Mike

Timewarper

My letter's going in the post today. I'm being cheeky and mentioning my work boots and shoes as well. They can only say no, can't they? I'll report back on what happens...

dawnyp64

i went thru a company called UNIFORM TAX REBATE(i ,stupidly,assumed i was dealing with the Inland Revenue) to claim my uniform cleaning rebate and thru this application,iv found out im on the wrong tax code and have a refund of over £4000 from the Inland revenue,which is great!....however....im now being charged a 20% fee(over £900) on the whole refund and not my uniform cleaning refund,.I had no idea i would get such a large sum back,and had i known i would most definately not gone thru a company that charges a 20% fee (was only stated in the terms & conditions,not on the main page,as iv only found out today)...so please be warned..go direct to the Inland Revenue(as i thought i had) or thru work if you can...

TM1976

dawnyp64 wrote: »

i went thru a company called UNIFORM TAX REBATE(i ,stupidly,assumed i was dealing with the Inland Revenue) to claim my uniform cleaning rebate and thru this application,iv found out im on the wrong tax code and have a refund of over £4000 from the Inland revenue,which is great!....however....im now being charged a 20% fee(over £900) on the whole refund and not my uniform cleaning refund,.I had no idea i would get such a large sum back,and had i known i would most definately not gone thru a company that charges a 20% fee (was only stated in the terms & conditions,not on the main page,as iv only found out today)...so please be warned..go direct to the Inland Revenue(as i thought i had) or thru work if you can...

£4,000 is a big rebate, I guess it depends whether you see the glass half empty or half full.

Are you sure you are reading the documentation property - the amount due is usually the figure at the bottom of the most recent P800T. If you get a bunch of these and add up all the totals you'll get a figure much bigger than the actual refund. The figure at the bottom of the 2010/11 P800T is usually the total.