Working from home allowance, how to claim?

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Tahiti said:

I get nothing from work for working from home but save on the travel costs which works out well for me.

However, I'm intrigued by this now.

Same here a day wfh saves me £550 a year on travel, I didn't used to do it much but since pay rises last few years have been nil I wfh a day a week and 2 days if I can wangle it.

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Going back a bit so maybe things have changed but one firm I worked for allowed us to claim £4 as "lunch allowance". Doesn't seem much now but that £1000 year tax free was quite significant then.

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CoolC said:

I'm PAYE and work from home.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/workin...

You claim on your tax free allowance. It's pretty simple, but you will need to complete and send through the form four times for the back dated years (IIRC you can back claim up to 6 years)

Once you've done it once though it stays on your name, so carries forward the following years.

That's what I thought too, but HMRC dropped that from my tax code in 2016-17 and can't tell me the reason. I have to submit (again) a letter explaining why I need it, along with a copy of my employment contract (again). I explained my nearest office is 1.5hrs and a PITA and they said that was only borderline acceptable to claim the allowance! Wtf. Don't think I'll bother, which probably explains why it was dropped.