Work from home allowance for employees 2021-22

Employed workers can claim working from home allowance for new tax year.

Employed workers who were forced to work from home because of the pandemic can now claim the government’s working from home allowance for the 2021/22 tax year

How much can you claim for working from home?

This gives workers a £6 per week allowance to cover home working costs and can be applied for at any time after the new tax year started.

HMRC has confirmed that employed workers can now claim the working from home allowance for the new tax year (2021/22), where they have worked at home for just one day because of the coronavirus restrictions.

How much will you save?

‘The £6 per week working from home allowance is worth £62 for basic rate (20%) taxpayers; £125 for higher rate (40%) taxpayers and £140 for additional rate (45%) tax payers for the 2021/22 tax year.

HMRC rules for working from home before COVID-19

‘HMRC relaxed the rules last year on who is eligible to claim the working from home allowance. Before the coronavirus pandemic, a worker could only claim the allowance in limited circumstances where their employer required them to work at home and for that specific period only. 

‘HMRC said that people could claim the working from home allowance for the entire 2020/21 tax year if they had worked at home for just one day because of the coronavirus restrictions preventing them from attending their place of work.’

At the start of the new tax year on 6 April, HMRC confirmed the same relaxed rule will apply for the 2021/22 tax year.

‘It’s a very welcome and early move from HMRC to allow people to easily claim the tax relief,’ said Shah. ‘People will have seen their household bills naturally go up over the last year, from increased working at home, and it’s positive that the government have recognised this.

‘HMRC’s microservice site was already up and running so it makes sense for them to extend the system for this tax year. HMRC is also likely to be wary of people making standalone claims for working at home this tax year, and the additional time and cost it would take to process these, so it makes sense from their perspective to simply let the system run for another year.

‘Those that haven’t claimed their allowance for the 2020/21 tax year can do this at the same time as claiming the current tax year.’

HMRC microservice website – Claiming the working from home allowance

Work from home allowance for employees 2021-22
Work From Home Tax Relief

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