Working from home tax relief - self assessment tax return question

Jeremy535897

I think the site's guidance saying you can claim for the whole year, even if you are only required to work from home for one day in it (which HMRC say you can), has given the (wrong in our view) impression that you don't need to incur any costs at all to be able to claim.

unholyangel

Jeremy535897 said:

I think the site's guidance saying you can claim for the whole year, even if you are only required to work from home for one day in it (which HMRC say you can), has given the (wrong in our view) impression that you don't need to incur any costs at all to be able to claim.

Well the sites guidance also says things like assuming you have increased costs, or if you have additional costs. 

And the microservice specifically asks you to confirm you had incurred increased costs due to WFH. 

Martin's would be easy to overlook because it's buried in a load of irrelevant sensationalist guff. But the microservice, it's the only question on the page and not in small font. So very prominent and very difficult (if not impossible) to claim you didn't see it/realise what you were answering.

Plus they normally always include a bit that you confirm you've checked you're eligible blah blah blah. 

Jeremy535897

unholyangel said:

Jeremy535897 said:

I think the site's guidance saying you can claim for the whole year, even if you are only required to work from home for one day in it (which HMRC say you can), has given the (wrong in our view) impression that you don't need to incur any costs at all to be able to claim.

Well the sites guidance also says things like assuming you have increased costs, or if you have additional costs. 

And the microservice specifically asks you to confirm you had incurred increased costs due to WFH. 

Martin's would be easy to overlook because it's buried in a load of irrelevant sensationalist guff. But the microservice, it's the only question on the page and not in small font. So very prominent and very difficult (if not impossible) to claim you didn't see it/realise what you were answering.

Plus they normally always include a bit that you confirm you've checked you're eligible blah blah blah. 

I guess people tend to read the bits they want to read. Irrelevant sensationalist guff? Sounds like BBC News!