Home Based Contract - Tax Implications

DiscoPistol

Hi all,

I work for the NHS and have recently requested that my contract is updated to home based (I've not been in the office this year and WFH exclusively other than the odd meeting at other offices) 

Management have no issues with this but a couple of things have been flagged to me, one of which is that I'll need to look into the Tax Implications - But with no actual details.

I've googled and looked at the site but can only find stuff around hybrid working.

Does anyone know where I can look and/or what I should be looking for?

Many thanks in advance.

DullGreyGuy

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home 

Presumably they are talking about the tax relief you can claim when you are forced to work from home (which isnt claimable if you voluntarily work from home)

Dazed_and_C0nfused

I suspect it was at least on part a reference to the potential CGT implication of choosing to work from home.

https://www.ftadviser.com/investments/2020/08/12/advisers-warned-of-tax-implications-of-working-from-home/

DullGreyGuy

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

I suspect it was at least on part a reference to the potential CGT implication of choosing to work from home.

https://www.ftadviser.com/investments/2020/08/12/advisers-warned-of-tax-implications-of-working-from-home/

Reads more like click bait from the original authors especially when they admit there are few cases and it only applies if a whole room is exclusively used for business. I do have a "home office" but that room is also used for doing personal paperwork, bills, insurance renewals, hiding from the Mrs, storage of personal effects, occasional movie or game playing when Lounge TV is in use with something I'm not interested in etc.

DiscoPistol

DullGreyGuy said:

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home 

Presumably they are talking about the tax relief you can claim when you are forced to work from home (which isnt claimable if you voluntarily work from home)

Thanks for the response.

This was all I could find as well but the thought was that the tax implication would affect me adversely, rather than what I could claim back.