Claiming expenses for working from home when partly self employed and partly employed

Galileo_Figaro

I want to do last year's self-assessment tax return asap as I'm applying for mortgages so want to get last year's income approved by HMRC. 

• I was self employed for 10 months of the year, and my actual expenses (taking into account working hours and proportion of house used) are around £15 a week, so it makes sense to me to use the actual rather than simplified costs. 
• For the last two months of 2020/2021 I was employed (again having to work from home). I'm not clear whether I can count the last two months actual expenses as an employee as being the same as the rest of the year as self employed, or whether I can only claim a maximum of £6 a week allowance for the last two months?

Any ideas in this please?

Dazed_and_C0nfused

It is Self Assessment, HMRC don't "approve" your tax return.

Are you referring to your total expenses or one specific element?

Whilst employed were you WFH due to Covid-19?

Galileo_Figaro

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

It is Self Assessment, HMRC don't "approve" your tax return.

Are you referring to your total expenses or one specific element?

Whilst employed were you WFH due to Covid-19?

I guess "approve" is the wrong term, but they respond in some way which is what mortgage lenders want to see.

I was wfh due to COVID-19 while employed. 

It is the wfh expenses I am referring to (more specifically a proportion of energy, water, council tax, buildings and contents insurance, and mortgage interest).

Galileo_Figaro

OK, I found a way to do this online. The self employed expenses go in the obvious section, and where you input details of employed income, there is a final question about expenses, and working from home is hidden in there.