PAYE Self Assessment - Possible Tax Relief?

adamnardone

Good evening all,

I joined MSE 2 years ago and other than the occasional browse have never felt compelled to post until now.

I have almost finalised a self assessment for 2014/15 tax year and before pushing the button I wanted to seek a little guidance from people more 'in the know' than me. My question is under PAYE, just exactly what can and can't I claim and up to what value as 'costs' incurred to do my job? Example - I purchase a suit that I only use for work, can this be claimed? Having searched the HMRC web site I can't find a list of exclusions or exceptions and so am hoping for some sort of guidance on this? I'm certainly not looking to dodge tax but it seems to me that this is a potential avenue to claw back some of the costs we all incur on a yearly basis to go to work.

Thanks in advance.

Adam Nardone.

CLAPTON

adamnardone wrote: »

Good evening all,

I joined MSE 2 years ago and other than the occasional browse have never felt compelled to post until now.

I have almost finalised a self assessment for 2014/15 tax year and before pushing the button I wanted to seek a little guidance from people more 'in the know' than me. My question is under PAYE, just exactly what can and can't I claim and up to what value as 'costs' incurred to do my job? Example - I purchase a suit that I only use for work, can this be claimed? Having searched the HMRC web site I can't find a list of exclusions or exceptions and so am hoping for some sort of guidance on this? I'm certainly not looking to dodge tax but it seems to me that this is a potential avenue to claw back some of the costs we all incur on a yearly basis to go to work.

Thanks in advance.

Adam Nardone.

no you can't claim a suit unless it is a uniform

there is very little you can claim as PAYE
so
uniform (if not supplied)
cleaning said uniform
some professional fees
business mileage (not journey to work)

the assumption is that your employer pays all your essential costs

adamnardone

CLAPTON wrote: »

no you can't claim a suit unless it is a uniform

there is very little you can claim as PAYE
so
uniform (if not supplied)
cleaning said uniform
some professional fees
business mileage (not journey to work)

the assumption is that your employer pays all your essential costs

Thanks for the reply. I thought that would be the case based on most things I've read on-line. Keen to know if anyone can offer different advice of whether or not I should just submit as is?

booksurr

the advice will be no different since those are the rules as you have already found out by the fact you cannot find a list as there isn't one since apart from those items there is nothing else you can claim

laticsforlife

The reason you can't claim is because most things have an inherent dual purpose to them, so your clothes, your travel etc.


HMRC allows by concession that if you launder a work uniform (and that should be logo's, not just a suit shirt/tie etc), then you can claim a sum of money in terms of tax.


To be clear, a suit has clear dual-purpose so cannot be claimed (else most HMRC staff would be claiming!) See Mallalieu v Drummond tax case.


The only other things are perhaps professional body subscriptions, or something you have to pay for example what was CORGI for plumbers (something purely for business, although there's even issues with some of those so I won't get into more detail).


But it sounds like No you can't, sorry

adamnardone

Thanks for the note back. I think it's clear this is now case closed.

Kind Regards,

Adam.