WFH Tax Relief Question

paddyposh

Hi all

I am doing the WFH tax relief currently for the last couple of tax years, and I have filled in my old employer info and current as I moved at the start of the year. My question is relating to the page where you input the costs, Martin Lewis put that it should be left blank (£0), but before I submit I wanted to make sure as it just looks like I am claiming back for nothing. Pic below of what I mean. Is this correct? Just for the standard £6 I mean, not claiming for extra.

[Deleted User]

Not sure where that is on the employment page - you should enter 312 in ‘other expenses and capital allowances’ - manual version attached.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1062530/SA102-2022.pdf

Dazed_and_C0nfused

[Deleted User] said:

Not sure where that is on the employment page - you should enter 312 in ‘other expenses and capital allowances’ - manual version attached.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1062530/SA102-2022.pdf

I think it might be a standalone claim rather than on a tax return?

paddyposh

[Deleted User] said:

Not sure where that is on the employment page - you should enter 312 in ‘other expenses and capital allowances’ - manual version attached.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1062530/SA102-2022.pdf

I am just doing a standalone claim for WFH via the gov microsite purely for WFH tax relief.

Apparently it's a straightforward £6 per week, but on the article on MSE he does say to leave it blank - just looks a bit odd so wanted to check on here.

I am doing for the previous tax years too until 19-20, which I believe would just come as a separate rebate.

But I just wanted to make sure the above is correct really and putting £0 is fine

[Deleted User]

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

[Deleted User] said:

Not sure where that is on the employment page - you should enter 312 in ‘other expenses and capital allowances’ - manual version attached.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1062530/SA102-2022.pdf

I think it might be a standalone claim rather than on a tax return?

Indeed - Explains it!

paddyposh

Would anyone know the answer to this?

Jeremy535897

You put in what you claim, £6 a week for 2020/21 and 2021/22, so £312 for the year. In 2019/20 it was £4 a week and only for the periods that actually qualified under the rules. I think you are misunderstanding what it says in the MSE website, presumably the sentence "Assuming you're not eligible for tax relief on other work-related expenses, such as the uniform tax rebate, leave them blank." This means you leave the sections other than the WFH claim blank, not that you leave the boxes in the WFH claim blank.

paddyposh

Jeremy535897 said:

You put in what you claim, £6 a week for 2020/21 and 2021/22, so £312 for the year. In 2019/20 it was £4 a week and only for the periods that actually qualified under the rules. I think you are misunderstanding what it says in the MSE website, presumably the sentence "Assuming you're not eligible for tax relief on other work-related expenses, such as the uniform tax rebate, leave them blank." This means you leave the sections other than the WFH claim blank, not that you leave the boxes in the WFH claim blank.

Thank you for that, yes I definitely misunderstood. There isn’t a date option however so for 19/20 I’ll just calculate from when lockdown kicked in. Though it was late March so probably only a small amount. 

Jeremy535897

paddyposh said:

Jeremy535897 said:

You put in what you claim, £6 a week for 2020/21 and 2021/22, so £312 for the year. In 2019/20 it was £4 a week and only for the periods that actually qualified under the rules. I think you are misunderstanding what it says in the MSE website, presumably the sentence "Assuming you're not eligible for tax relief on other work-related expenses, such as the uniform tax rebate, leave them blank." This means you leave the sections other than the WFH claim blank, not that you leave the boxes in the WFH claim blank.

Thank you for that, yes I definitely misunderstood. There isn’t a date option however so for 19/20 I’ll just calculate from when lockdown kicked in. Though it was late March so probably only a small amount. 

I think for most people it was 2 weeks, so worth £1.60 to a basic rate taxpayer.