Wash your uniform at home ?

jaxs

Hubby is a breakdown recovery driver and has worked for a few different companies over the last 5 years. Spoke to HMRC this morning and they recommended submitting his claim in the form of a letter and not using the online form. If we used the online form, we'd have to complete one for each employer he worked for during the 5 years and as he changed employer a couple of times last year and this year, that would be a lot of forms!

A couple of his former employers provided complete branded uniforms (tops, trousers, jackets etc) but some didn't give anything.
He's purchased industry specific clothing over the years but we've never kept receipts, but late last year he did get a couple of pairs of high viz over trousers and a high viz padded all-in-one boiler suit thing (absolute pig to wash!), so I'd like to include these in the claim. They were bought off Ebay so I have the confirmation emails for these 3 items. Would these emails count as receipts?

Kally_2

I'm a nurse. Thanks to MSE I applied online, printed and posted my documents and got over £800 for the last 4 years!!!

tigerm25

Kally wrote: »

I'm a nurse. Thanks to MSE I applied online, printed and posted my documents and got over £800 for the last 4 years!!!

How did you manage to get as much as that? My partner is a nurse and I'm about to attempt to claim a rebate for her. I make it £100 rebate per year, and £18 per year for shoes, stocking & tights. That's £118 per year, and with a maximum of 5 years, that's a £590 rebate. I'm genuinely interested, because I don't want to do anything wrong. Thanks in advance.

tigerm25

https://public-online.hmrc.gov.uk/error/ASMErrorPage.htm?error=12447922506790405743

Also, is anyone else getting this page when they get to the end of the process? Calling HMRC has proved a nightmare so far. I was waiting for someone to answer and after 32 minutes, the call just went dead. Hate it when it does that!!:mad:

patanne

Are part of her union fees tax deductible?

jimmo

tigerm25 wrote: »

How did you manage to get as much as that? My partner is a nurse and I'm about to attempt to claim a rebate for her. I make it £100 rebate per year, and £18 per year for shoes, stocking & tights. That's £118 per year, and with a maximum of 5 years, that's a £590 rebate. I'm genuinely interested, because I don't want to do anything wrong. Thanks in advance.

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, even on here.
Do your own research but just to take one example from your post you are correct that the tax allowance for nurses shoes and stockings/tights is £18 a year.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM67200.htm
However that’s a tax allowance, not a rebate. For a basic rate(20%) taxpayer the rebate would be (18* 20%) £3.60.
Where you got the other £100 from is impossible to judge. It could easily be feasible as a tax allowance but, as a rebate, it would be £20.
Should still be worth pursuing but its not exactly going to get you even a week, self catering in Tenerife.

booksurr

jimmo wrote: »

Where you got the other £100 from is impossible to judge. It could easily be feasible as a tax allowance but, as a rebate, it would be £20

the allowance is a fact, not a question of judgement
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM67240.htm
however I do agree with you that amounts stated on this thread can be somewhat wild and probably reflect that claimants have no idea what they are doing or what the figures actually mean and they are probably the total of the allowances claimed, rather than the cash received.

scragend

booksurr wrote: »

the allowance is a fact, not a question of judgement
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM67240.htm
however I do agree with you that amounts stated on this thread can be somewhat wild and probably reflect that claimants have no idea what they are doing or what the figures actually mean and they are probably the total of the allowances claimed, rather than the cash received.

Yes, but what jimmo is getting at is that the "allowance" means that you can knock £100 off your taxable income, so you pay £20 less tax (if you are a BR taxpayer).

You don't get £100 back.

tigerm25

patanne wrote: »

Are part of her union fees tax deductible?

Not sure. I'll look into this.

booksurr

tigerm25 wrote: »

Not sure. I'll look into this.

if she is RCN registered I am surprised she has missed the form they supply?
https://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/444238/TAX-FORM-15_16.pdf

note this form is NOT an agency / claims recovery company one, it is purely a form you submit direct to HMRC and HMRC will pay any rebate direct to you without deduction of any middleman commission

Do not use a claims company, making a claim is as simple as the above form, don't pay someone else to do this for you