WFH Tax relief 2022/23

[blessings2022]

Anyone know if the rules will be the same for the next tax year? Can't see anything online

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Nope believe cancelled as instead of costing 2m now it costs gov 500m

Thank you for starting this thread OP as I assumed it was just automatically something that was available every year.

Another thing to budget for then

I don't think anything is official but Martin Lewis said it would likely change to reduce eligibility.

@JackieCollinshasnoauthority

I don't think anything is official but Martin Lewis said it would likely change to reduce eligibility.

Interesting, any idea on how they will reduce eligibility?

@user1471504747

Thank you for starting this thread OP as I assumed it was just automatically something that was available every year.

Another thing to budget for then

I know :(

Boris and his cronie landlords want everyone spending their time commuting to rented offices in towns and cities so I think the relief will be cut

@linchinton

Boris and his cronie landlords want everyone spending their time commuting to rented offices in towns and cities so I think the relief will be cut

I think you may be right...

Regarding changing eligibility, they will probably say something like you must be WfH all week, every week to qualify, or alternatively that WfH must be a contractually given right. This would remove the vast majority of those who had to WfH due to the pandemic.

That's rubbish if it is. It's not massive amount of money I know, but my job has made us permanent home workers and it's a small help to the massive increase in utility bills.

@Starseeking

Regarding changing eligibility, they will probably say something like you must be WfH all week, every week to qualify, or alternatively that WfH must be a contractually given right. This would remove the vast majority of those who had to WfH due to the pandemic.

Quite difficult and expensive to administer surely?

You'd probably have to submit proof/evidence with your tax return...and the vast majority wouldn't have it. Job done for the government in one swift move.

I expect it to return to how it was before, so if your job is home based, ie there is no office option, then you can apply. If there is an office, even if it's not mandatory to attend every day, then you can't apply as you are choosing to work from home.

The tax relief was only available in the past if working from home was a necessity (which was generally not the case for employees). During the pandemic, the government wanted people to work at home, hence it was introduced more widely. Now the government has no such opinion on work from home so it has reverted to the previous rules.