Heating while working from home during Covid-19

ToxicWomble

I guess we differ then - I have already stated that I gain £10 plus 2.5hrs a week with WFH - it wouldn’t feel right to claim money I don’t need (even if I am entitled to it)
Would rather it contributed towards something/someone more in need that myself

p.s isn’t it a tax rebate in £6/wk so £1.20 a week = ~£60 a year not £140pa ?

Jeremy535897

ToxicWomble said:

I guess we differ then - I have already stated that I gain £10 plus 2.5hrs a week with WFH - it wouldn’t feel right to claim money I don’t need (even if I am entitled to it)
Would rather it contributed towards something/someone more in need that myself

p.s isn’t it a tax rebate in £6/wk so £1.20 a week = ~£60 a year not £140pa ?

Maybe you don't need your personal allowance either? I would suggest that the better approach is to claim what you are genuinely entitled to, and then give what you don't need to a charity of your choice. They will probably make better use of the money.

The value of the claim depends on what rate of tax you pay, which can be up to 60% if your taxable income is in the £100,000 to £125,000 bracket, due to the withdrawal of the personal allowance.

Tammykitty

68ComebackSpecial said:

My morals say that I'll happily claim £140 p.a. when I complete my husband's self assessment. 

My morals say I will happily claim the tax relief myself and when I complete my husbands, I will do that do (And I feel no guilt at doing so)
I also took quite a lot of benefit from the eat out to help out scheme.

Considering we have received very little help for my husband having zero work for 4 months (self employed), any penny I can claim I will be!

The allowance wouldn't exist if you weren't allowed to claim it!

silvercar

Tammykitty said:

68ComebackSpecial said:

My morals say that I'll happily claim £140 p.a. when I complete my husband's self assessment. 

My morals say I will happily claim the tax relief myself and when I complete my husbands, I will do that do (And I feel no guilt at doing so)
I also took quite a lot of benefit from the eat out to help out scheme.

Considering we have received very little help for my husband having zero work for 4 months (self employed), any penny I can claim I will be!

The allowance wouldn't exist if you weren't allowed to claim it!

If your husband has had zero work for 4 months, how can he claim a working from home expense for that time?

NitroBN

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Grumpy_chap

Don't the elderly you reference receive the winter fuel allowance?

gary83

NitroBN said:

Welcome to the world of the elderly and disabled in Britain who have to pay more fuel bills than all who go out to work year in year out whilst being on the lowest incomes possible because they dont even get the minimum wage equivalent to live off let alone what is considered a living wage.

 

Minimum wage equivalent? Living wage? Who was under the impression that they’d have kept getting the minimum wage/living wage equivalent once they retired? Most of us certainly haven’t been paying enough to fund that, If we were all to receive the living or minimum wage once we hit SPA then Taxes are going to have to increase massively. 

Grumpy_chap

Many elderly, over recent history, have received comfortable pensions (reduced below salary) and lower outgoings because mortgage paid.  Often that even allows a lump sum to be released through down-sizing.  The result has been comfortable life style

Those days are declining with the demise of final-salary pension, no more job-for-life and greater proportion of renters.

calcotti

Grumpy_chap said: Those days are declining with the demise of final-salary pension, no more job-for-life and greater proportion of renters.

Which has huge public spending implications because many of those renters will be claiming Housing Benefit.

Tammykitty

silvercar said:

Tammykitty said:

68ComebackSpecial said:

My morals say that I'll happily claim £140 p.a. when I complete my husband's self assessment. 

My morals say I will happily claim the tax relief myself and when I complete my husbands, I will do that do (And I feel no guilt at doing so)
I also took quite a lot of benefit from the eat out to help out scheme.

Considering we have received very little help for my husband having zero work for 4 months (self employed), any penny I can claim I will be!

The allowance wouldn't exist if you weren't allowed to claim it!

If your husband has had zero work for 4 months, how can he claim a working from home expense for that time?

The paperwork side of the business was still going on - accounts still needed done as incurring expenses, he was doing marketing and advertising to try to get work and he did a lot of training webinars etc - so its fully legit to claim the expense