Work from Home Allowance

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Hi, I am a taxpayer and have been working from home at my employer's direction since March 2020.  I don't claim any living expenses from my employer.
I just created my gateway user ID to put a claim in .  It is asking what years I want to claim for I have put 2020/2021 
My understanding is that irrespective you only worked at home for 2 months of 2020/2021 or for 6 months or as it looks likely for me,12 months.  HMRC will credit you for the full tax year 20/21  no questions asked so you get the full £62.40 regardless. I am sure many of you have applied for this already what happens do you get a credit of £62.40 on your payslip ? 

Does the same rule/leniency apply for the £4 per week for 2019/2020 tax year?  I am just wondering whether it is worth bothering with for the couple of weeks in March 2020 ? 
If I did put 2019/2020 what can I expect the questions to be asked and how would they differ from 2020/2021? 

Is it an either or thing, you either claim the £6 per week allowance only or you claim the individual expenses? 
Did anyone here claim for anything else like extra home heating costs for the room used as an office?  My OH bought a monitor exclusively to use with her work issued laptop.  Is it essentially if your expenses are substantially more than £6 * 52 = £312 then claim individually  but if not then claim the no frills version?

Thanks

Dazed_and_C0nfused

what happens do you get a credit of £62.40 on your payslip ?

No, your tax gets recalculated the first time your employer used the new tax code and you get an adjustment for however many months through the tax year we are.  So in your case you shoukd see the full benefit in your March pay, reducing the tax payable for March.  Meaning more take home pay.

Does the same rule/leniency apply for the £4 per week for 2019/2020 tax year? I am just wondering whether it is worth bothering with for the couple of weeks in March 2020 ? 
If I did put 2019/2020 what can I expect the questions to be asked and how would they differ from 2020/2021? 

You could no doubt have claimed for 2019:20 a lot quicker than typing out this question.  Plenty of posters have claimed realistically i.e 2 or 3 weeks, for 2019:20 and automatically got small adjustments included in their 2020:21 tax code.

If you start claiming for a longer period you could expect questions from HMRC.

Did anyone here claim for anything else like extra home heating costs for the room used as an office?  

That is what the £6/week is for.  You cannot claim the £6/week and actual costs.

My OH bought a monitor exclusively to use with her work issued laptop. Is it essentially if your expenses are substantially more than £6 * 52 = £312 then claim individually but if not then claim the no frills version?

I wouldn't expect HMRC to allow the expense of purchasing a monitor without a fair bit of explaining.  One of the rules around that type of expense is that it must be "necessary" for her to do her job and to have incurred the cost.  If it genuinely was necessary then her employer would presumably have purchased it rather than have her sat doing nothing.

Mahsroh

I have a similar query relating to additional expenses. The relief according gov.uk includes "things like heating, metered water bills, home contents insurance" etc. 

It then goes on  to say "you may be able to claim relief on equipment you've bought such as a laptop, chair or mobile phone". 

BUT it THEN says you can either claim £6 per week or the exact amounts (for which you'll need to provide evidence). 

I purchased an office chair specifically to work from home, it's not used for anything else (it even got moved into the shed over the Christmas Break) so i'm happy it qualifies for relief, but no matter how many times I read the info on gov.uk I can't decide if the chair is covered in the £6 per week allowance, or in addition to.

Jeremy535897

Equipment like a chair is not covered in the £6 a week allowance, but it is almost impossible to make a claim for one, because it puts you in a position to do your job, which you can't claim for, rather than being incurred as part of the performance of the duties of your job (for example printer ink).

Mahsroh

Jeremy535897 said:

Equipment like a chair is not covered in the £6 a week allowance, but it is almost impossible to make a claim for one, because it puts you in a position to do your job, which you can't claim for, rather than being incurred as part of the performance of the duties of your job (for example printer ink).

Thanks for that. I must admit I didn't think it was claimable as it's arguably not "necessary". (I could sit on a dining chair for example). The only thing that got me looking into it was that gov.uk used a chair as a specific example. The relief on it is a low cost in scheme of things though so if in doubt I won't claim for it.