Wash your uniform at home ?

Roopo

I wrote my firm's tax office in April 2011. I have never heard anything back. I just phoned them and they said that they wrote to my employer and received no reply. They will write to them again and let me know what happens within a month. This could go on for ever. When I said have you got the right address, he said. It will be on file. He didn't seem bothered at all about checking he had the right contact details.

shelovestobuystuff

Hi,
just heard about this available rebate and will get my husband to apply for one for himself for the max 6 years.
I have looked at the chart of jobs and amounts and am really not sure what one my hubby would claim under.Does anyone know if it would be the building section or construction engineering,he's a civil engineer in the building industry.Looks like it would be tax back on 100-120 a year either way :-)

John_Pierpoint

Unfortunately HMRC never did keep to the statute of limitations that applies to the rest of us; now even the Scots could be missing out..

The limit available to reclaim is here:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/deadlines-taxpayers.htm

bonwah

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how much the washing uniform allowance is please.

GEMGIRL67

My brother applied for this allowance, for the max 6 years and all he got was a cheque for just over £11 that was only for one year

cadmad

Hello all

I came across this thread last month and sent my letter off to HMRC to claim a rebate/reduction in tax for uniform allowance. I also told a colleague about this who sent her letter off at the same time.

According to the chart, we're both eligible to claim £60 per year reduction in tax, and a £60 per year rebate to cover the last 4 years. So that's £240. Great!

My colleague had to ring the tax office today to give them her national insurance number before they could proceed any further. During the conversation she was told we are only entitled to 20% of the £60pa rebate, and not the full amount (really not sure why?!)

So this means we'll only get £48 ish. Which to be honest, has just made this a waste of time. Yes £48 is better in my pocket than thiers, but when you're teased with the prospect of getting £240 back, it's a bit of an anticlimax.

00ec25

cadmad wrote: »

During the conversation she was told we are only entitled to 20% of the £60pa rebate, and not the full amount (really not sure why?!)

So this means we'll only get £48 ish. Which to be honest, has just made this a waste of time. Yes £48 is better in my pocket than thiers, but when you're teased with the prospect of getting £240 back, it's a bit of an anticlimax.

please send me £48 as clearly it's not worth your time banking it but its worth my time in writing this explanation

you get tax relief, not an allowance .
HMRC have arbitrarily decided that you will spend £60 pa in washing your uniform.
The Govt will not pay your costs for laundering it, but they will, in their generosity, refund the tax you paid on the £60 you earned in the first place in order to be able to spend £60 on washing it

assuming you are basic rate 20% tax payer that's why you get back £12 per year claimed to the max of £48

cadmad

00ec25 wrote: »

please send me £48 as clearly it's not worth your time banking it but its worth my time in writing this explanation

Or how about you wind your neck in and take that attitude elsewhere?

Nine_Lives

cadmad wrote: »

Or how about you wind your neck in and take that attitude elsewhere?

I think you've gotten a bit upset over the fact you didn't understand the £60 situation properly.

No shame in it - neither did i. I thought it was £60 a year too & had to have it explained to me why this wasn't the case. Thanks to MSE members, i didn't embarrass myself asking for big figures.

cadmad

Fair comment, however the soap box could have been left at home.

I'm not upset about it, as I said, it's still better in my pocket than theirs. The point of my post was to make people - like myself, who didn't even know this existed - aware that it's not as straight forward as it first appears, and not to get their hopes up expecting a large cheque to arrive in the post.