Working from home tax relief - start date before 23rd of March

MrA2012

I'm about to put in my claim for the working from home tax relief as detailed here:

https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2020/04/martin-lewis--working-from-home-due-to-coronavirus--claim-p6-wk-/?_ga=2.132737544.720662175.1603798842-1047943726.1594404839#microservice

I'm a little confused about the start date though.  Although the official date that lockdown started seems to be the 23rd of March, my company closed the office and required us all to work from home from the 17th of March (which as I remember was the day after the government started advising it).  The site above says you can claim from the 23rd and seems to indicate it's more complicated if you claim for before that - "For claims before 23 March 2020, you don’t automatically get the whole tax year".

Will I complicate matters if I enter the 17th of March as the date I started working from home or should I just enter the 23rd?  Does it even matter either way?

Thanks in advance!

bradders1983

Given the tax year starts in April....

68ComebackSpecial

For the 2019/2020 tax year relief was allowed at £4/ week, which equates to 80p/ week for a basic rate taxpayer and £1.60/ week if you pay higher rate tax. Up to you whether you want to bother with claiming for a couple of pounds (literally).

MovingForwards

You put the date you started working from home.
Doing it via the portal is simple.

jackjones01

I did mine from 18.03.20 and my tax code was updated within 2 days. 

Chop-D

Put in the day you started working from home. Mine was the 18th and went through with no problems.

Savvy_Sue

Well this is interesting. I applied at the end of May, but forgot all about it, and nothing's changed / no check received. So I've just re-applied, which is when I did some back checking and remembered the May application. Let's see if that works ... or if they even contact me! 

HCDowling

The link does not seem to be taking me to the section that asks "when did you start working from home" does anyone know if the link has been updated?  If so please can you the new link be added?  Thank you in advance