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Mark59
August 31, 2020

Home expense and tax summary UK

  • August 31, 2020
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Hi, I know that I can add working from home hours to my profile, and that will automatically add appropriate 'Home Office Expenses' to my tax summary.

 

However, I actually make such a payment to my household joint account from my business account and would like this method to work. But these payments, even though marked as 'Home Office Expenses' are marked as 'disallowed' in the tax summary.

 

I don't understand why this is not allowed? Is there a way to make this work?

 

thanks

Mark

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    Ashleigh1
    September 1, 2020

    Hello Mark59, 

     

    Can you check in the main cog>tax profile and tell us how many hours you have put in there or send us a screenshot of the page.

     

    If it is more than 20 hours entered this could be why it is being disallowed rather than allowed. 

     

    Also, could you clarify this for us as well as, what do you mean by making a payment to my household joint account from my business account? Are you doing this as a transfer between the two accounts? 

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    Mark59Author
    September 12, 2020

    I currently have 0 (zero) in my tax profile for hours worked from home.

     

    I am making a regular payment from my business account to a joint personal home account, so yes, a transfer between the two accounts. I'm using the simplified expenses as allowed by HMRC, making a regular payment of £26 per month as I work over 101 hours per month from home. These do not include phone or internet expenses, they are treated seperatly.

     

    My tax summary shows these payments as non-deductable despite being marked as home working expenses.

     

    I know that if I put a number to the hours worked from home in the tax profile, this will add home expenses to my tax summary.

     

    thanks Mark

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    Ashleigh1
    September 14, 2020

    Thanks for getting back to us Mark, 

     

    With this information are you able to send us some screenshots of the different pages so we can have a look at what's going on for you.

     

    Thanks 

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