Working from home as employee

Eliza_2

I work from home as the only paid employee (PAYE, not self employed) for a small community organisation. I provide computer equipment, consumables (toner, paper etc) and everything else myself as required in my job description. I do sometimes make a small claim from them towards printer consumables if I need to do a lot but otherwise not as they don't have a lot of money and what they have should be spent on community projects. I also do a small amount of mileage that I don't claim either.

Previously I was also self employed as a freelancer for other work and just used to 'absorb' allowances into what I claimed for that, along with the usual stuff such as heating etc for the room I used,on my self employment tax assessment each year.

However I have now de-registered as self employed and wondered if there is any way I can claim for a proportion of these other expenses through my self assessment even though you would normally expect an employer to pay for these if I worked in the traditional way in an office.

Sorry, this sounds muddled - be grateful for any advice. thanks Liz

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Eliza wrote: »

I work from home as the only paid employee (PAYE, not self employed) for a small community organisation. I provide computer equipment, consumables (toner, paper etc) and everything else myself as required in my job description. I do sometimes make a small claim from them towards printer consumables if I need to do a lot but otherwise not as they don't have a lot of money and what they have should be spent on community projects. I also do a small amount of mileage that I don't claim either.

Previously I was also self employed as a freelancer for other work and just used to 'absorb' allowances into what I claimed for that, along with the usual stuff such as heating etc for the room I used,on my self employment tax assessment each year.

However I have now de-registered as self employed and wondered if there is any way I can claim for a proportion of these other expenses through my self assessment even though you would normally expect an employer to pay for these if I worked in the traditional way in an office.

Sorry, this sounds muddled - be grateful for any advice. thanks Liz

I should think you would be able to claim for expenses. Try this link
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/relief-household.htm for household expenses and this one http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/tax-allow-ees.htm that explains a bit about how to claim expenses.