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Employees Working from Home

Employees working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic can continue to claim tax relief on costs not reimbursed by their employer, but a new claim will need to be made for the 2021/22 tax year, HMRC has confirmed.

16th April 2021 by Chris Bond

Employees working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic can continue to claim tax relief on costs not reimbursed by their employer, but a new claim will need to be made for the 2021/22 tax year, HMRC has confirmed.

Normally, employers can pay a tax-free allowance of up to £6 per week/£26 per month to employees required to work from home. During the coronavirus pandemic, employees can claim tax relief for this amount when employers do not reimburse costs.

The allowance is to cover tax-deductible additional costs that employees who are required to work from home have incurred, such as heating and lighting the workroom, and business telephone calls.

Where employees are not reimbursed by their employers, it is not normally possible to claim tax relief for any additional costs of working from home.

However, a relaxation was announced on 27 March 2020. The change enables employees working at home because of COVID-19 to claim a deduction where they have not been reimbursed by their employer. This relaxation means employees who are not reimbursed by their employer can claim tax relief in their tax returns (self assessment return or a postal form P87) or via the government gateway to claim tax relief in-year through their PAYE code. (To find out which route to use, visit HMRC’s online claims checker.

Where claims were made in the 2020/21 tax year, these will not be automatically rolled forward. Where employees continue to work from home, a new claim will need to be made for the 2021/22 tax year.

Once the pandemic is over, these rules will revert to the previous position under which the allowance is tax-free only where paid by employers.

HMRC has previously confirmed that the £6 per week/£26 per month is available in full, even if an employee splits their time between home and office (i.e. the amount does not need to be pro-rated over the number of days spent each week at home and in the office.)

If an employee who has told HMRC that they are working from home returns to working in the office, there is no requirement for the employee to tell HMRC, so the relief can apply to the whole of the tax year.

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