laundry allowance

tight_scotsman

hi all
i am a coach driver and have been for some 25 yrs my employer provides a uniform for me to wear

what i want to know is as i have to pay for washing dry cleaning ect can i claim anything back from the tax man
thanx john

John_Pierpoint

The answer is most probably yes as you are a PAYE employee.

But it won't be much - see if there is a standard allowance in this thread, otherwise you could have ago at claiming your actual costs each year.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/27967

veryunsure

I did this earlier in the year; it was backdated for the maximum time allowed (6 years) and is about a £60 a year allowance

tight_scotsman

thanx guys im off on a 15 day tour of the scottish highlands tommorow so will get the wife right onto it she is rubbing her hands as wee speak lol

John_Pierpoint

tight_scotsman wrote: »

thanx guys im off on a 15 day tour of the scottish highlands tommorow so will get the wife right onto it she is rubbing her hands as wee speak lol

Don't get her too excited, a £60 quid annual allowance is probably worth £12 in actual folding Scottish notes to you.

If you have a financial mistake, the general law of the land (Statute of limitations) says 6 years down here in England anyway - I expect North of the border it is much the same.

HOWEVER HMRC is a law unto its self - if you are a PAYE man and don't do Self Assessment (SA) then you have a bit longer under the old HMRC rules of roughly 5 years and 10 months. If this looks like an issue for you, Google and search the HMRC site for the exact rules.

[I thought I had 6 years when sorting out my 90 year old mother's tax errors and assumed that the limitation would be 72 months running April to April - it isn't and it doesn't.]

John.

PS In Scotland it appears to be 5 years for every day commercial transactions.

http://www.penaltychargesforum.co.uk/showthread.php?19128-statute-of-limitations

In Northern Ireland, statue barred debts are governed by the Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989. In Scotland, statute barred debts are governed by the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 which states that the debt itself ceases to exist after five years providing that it has not been acknowledged and that no relevant claim against it has been made by the creditor.