Working from home during lockdown

Tax relief claim for employees ??

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If, during this Corona shutdown, employees are instruced to work from home by their employers, can a tax relief claim be made on the flat rate figures of £18 / £26 per month ? 

 

 

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By bernard michael
28th May 2020 09:19

On a similar issue. I wonder how many employers are paying the extra costs of working from home eg phone, electricity

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By JCresswellTax
28th May 2020 09:37

Surely these costs are most than offset against a saving in travel costs. You would have to be pretty unreasonable to try and claim a proprortion of your £80 gas & elec bill if you are saving £150 a month on travel costs...

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By DJKL
28th May 2020 10:19

That presumes one normally has any travel costs, I live under a mile from my office.

Given the volumes of masks, wipes,liquid soap, hand gels,paper towel dispensers and disinfectant currently being delivered to my house by myriad suppliers I am actually driving to work to deliver these more frequently than I ever drove to work when I actually worked from the office, the back of my car becoming an office storeroom that gets moved every time its gets too full. (Only 24 wall mounted dispensers still to arrive and we are then hopefully sorted for a couple of months once the company disinfecting some of our buildings gets the spraying done tomorrow)

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By SteveHa
28th May 2020 10:24

JCresswellTax wrote:

Surely these costs are most than offset against a saving in travel costs. You would have to be pretty unreasonable to try and claim a proprortion of your £80 gas & elec bill if you are saving £150 a month on travel costs...

In my case, the £176 pm travel saving, plus saving the costs of lunch, and the after work beers are more than compensating for the extra costs of working from home.

I've never felt so wealthy.

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By DJKL
28th May 2020 11:14

You are lucky- with my two in the house 24/7 , eating all their meals here and not eating out, our food bills have rocketed.

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