Martin Lewis: Working from home due to coronavirus, even for a day? Claim TWO years' worth of tax re

fireice

For previous tax years, can the tax relief be claimed for part time working from home? Prior to the pandemic, I used to work from home roughly once per week because we only had 8 desks for every 10 people in the office.

naf123

How does it work if you have two jobs, and you want to claim working from home from one job and professional fees from the other job? 

Suzkin

HMRC tells me only employees whose TAXABLE income is above £12,500 (i.e. standard
 allowance for basic rate) will see any benefit (i.e. employer pension contributions are NOT counted in). So, if your gross salary is for example, £12,685 and pension contributions from your employer are over say £185 for the year, then you won't receive any benefit as you won't qualify. [However, please correct me if this is wrong!].

glider3560

Suzkin said:

HMRC tells me only employees whose TAXABLE income is above £12,500 (i.e. standard
 allowance for basic rate) will see any benefit (i.e. employer pension contributions are NOT counted in). So, if your gross salary is for example, £12,685 and pension contributions from your employer are over say £185 for the year, then you won't receive any benefit as you won't qualify. [However, please correct me if this is wrong!].

Yes, that's correct.  Since you won't pay any income tax, there's no tax relief to be claimed.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Suzkin said:

HMRC tells me only employees whose TAXABLE income is above £12,500 (i.e. standard
 allowance for basic rate) will see any benefit (i.e. employer pension contributions are NOT counted in). So, if your gross salary is for example, £12,685 and pension contributions from your employer are over say £185 for the year, then you won't receive any benefit as you won't qualify. [However, please correct me if this is wrong!].

It's not strictly true for everyone. 
If you are married and have applied for Marriage Allowance you will have a reduced Personal Allowance of £11,250. 
So if you earn say £12,000 you would usually pay £150 in tax but a WFH claim would reduce that slightly.

ReecesWaffle

Did this a few months ago and got a nice cheque from HMRC. Nice of you to post it for others!

FLUFFYX

I claimed for last year but have now received a new tax code for 2021/22. As I'm still working from home, can I put a new claim in on 1st April?

Dazed_and_C0nfused

No.  But you might be able to on 6 April.

Will probably find out more in the Budget today.

sabretoothtigger

Is the deadline for this tax year going to be this March basically or its like tax on savings, ok to claim after as well

Dazed_and_C0nfused

You must make a claim for the 2020:21 tax year by 5 April 2025.