Wash your uniform at home ?

booksurr

pepper33 wrote: »

I have just been refused because I do not belong to any of the groups, yet I work for the CPS and have to wear dark clothes to court. I always buy some black tops, trousers and you also have to cover your arms in court. I wouldn't wear any of these dark clothes for anything else, as I bought them for court. My employer refuses to give us an allowance and I am one of the lower paid staff. Anyone else have to buy clothes for court?

I am very surprised given you work in a court setting that you do not know the "wig case". After all that is the legal precedent which defined what is a "uniform" and, for the avoidance of doubt, it dealt specifically with "dark clothes". You may not like them, and regard them as being something you do not want to be seen in outside of work, but nonetheless in no way are they a "uniform", read the details here:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/bimmanual/bim37910.htm

since what you describe buying sounds more like generic clothing you have no chance at all of claiming either the purchase costs or the costs of washing them. However, if you are required to permanently affix a corporate logo to the items (does the CPS have a logo?) then, and only then, would they be a uniform (and so eligible for the laundry allowance) otherwise it is merely a consistent corporate image, as explained in the bank staff example...read this http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM32475.htm

pepper33

Thank you for explaining in plain English

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.