WFH agreements
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Anyone have their working from home arrangements written into their contract or just go verbally?
I have just been offered a new role and the contract has wording that says your normal place of work will be your home address. Does this cover it off as the company has an office in London which I am expected to go down to once a month.
I am guessing with my contract saying normal place of work is my home address, I can claim travel expenses going to London office?
I have just been offered a new role and the contract has wording that says your normal place of work will be your home address. Does this cover it off as the company has an office in London which I am expected to go down to once a month.
I am guessing with my contract saying normal place of work is my home address, I can claim travel expenses going to London office?
super7 said:
Yup….. i have a contract that states my normal place of work is at home.. had it for 4 years now.
Going to an office can be claimed on expenses.
Exactly this, as does mine. I've been WFH for 16ish years and all contracts have stated this clearly. If I leave the house to travel to a client or one of our offices I'm on expenses. My last trip was to to the US to Head office and I travelled clients in London twice in 2024. Other than that I've been happily sat in my home office and it's fabulous. Last year I made Director and have been practicing dominating the stairs on a regular basis. Going to an office can be claimed on expenses.
Not necessarily true that travel to an office can be ‘claimed on expenses’ if you are permanently based at home. It’s a matter of company policy. But in some circumstances HMRC will allow expenses incurred to be reclaimed against income tax if the employer doesn’t pay travel expenses
LastPoster said:
Not necessarily true that travel to an office can be ‘claimed on expenses’ if you are permanently based at home. It’s a matter of company policy. But in some circumstances HMRC will allow expenses incurred to be reclaimed against income tax if the employer doesn’t pay travel expenses
I would be interested in those circumstances?Mr E said:
LastPoster said:
Not necessarily true that travel to an office can be ‘claimed on expenses’ if you are permanently based at home. It’s a matter of company policy. But in some circumstances HMRC will allow expenses incurred to be reclaimed against income tax if the employer doesn’t pay travel expenses
I would be interested in those circumstances?https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employmen...
When our local office closed during Covid, I went from being office based on my contract to home based. My manager had a 30 second call with me to confirm I was ok with it, although I had been pretty much WFH for a while, as our local office got slowly smaller. Now I just get an annual assessment to confirm my seating position etc are all ok, but seeing as I swiped my hugely expensive office chair when the office closed down, I am very comfy, thanks. My nearest office is approx 100 miles away and I am not contractually obliged to go there at all, although I go once a year for the Christmas party, which is claimed as a travelling expense.
Collectingbrass said:
Mr E said:
LastPoster said:
Not necessarily true that travel to an office can be ‘claimed on expenses’ if you are permanently based at home. It’s a matter of company policy. But in some circumstances HMRC will allow expenses incurred to be reclaimed against income tax if the employer doesn’t pay travel expenses
I would be interested in those circumstances?https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employmen...
If you are home based and your employer asks you to come to the office for a meeting and doesn’t cover all expenses, anything you are out of pocket on can be offset against income tax. So suppose they paid the train fare but wouldn’t cover travel in your car to the station and parking, so you could offset that against income tax. Not if it’s a regular thing though, for example if you had to attend a fixed meeting every Monday. That would be a permanent arrangement.
LastPoster said:
That wasn’t quite what I meant, but you are correct for that circumstance
If you are home based and your employer asks you to come to the office for a meeting and doesn’t cover all expenses, anything you are out of pocket on can be offset against income tax. So suppose they paid the train fare but wouldn’t cover travel in your car to the station and parking, so you could offset that against income tax. Not if it’s a regular thing though, for example if you had to attend a fixed meeting every Monday. That would be a permanent arrangement.
why is this the case, simply because contract place of work is at home?If you are home based and your employer asks you to come to the office for a meeting and doesn’t cover all expenses, anything you are out of pocket on can be offset against income tax. So suppose they paid the train fare but wouldn’t cover travel in your car to the station and parking, so you could offset that against income tax. Not if it’s a regular thing though, for example if you had to attend a fixed meeting every Monday. That would be a permanent arrangement.
okgo said:
zalrak said:
Was it not established sometime ago that "Racehorse" is the new "Welshbeef" pseudonym?
I don’t think so. Both morons but different in their execution.
Just question after question after question, (almost bot-like) that could usually be answered either by googling or by speaking to the (imaginary) HR Dept.
Racehorse said:
LastPoster said:
That wasn’t quite what I meant, but you are correct for that circumstance
If you are home based and your employer asks you to come to the office for a meeting and doesn’t cover all expenses, anything you are out of pocket on can be offset against income tax. So suppose they paid the train fare but wouldn’t cover travel in your car to the station and parking, so you could offset that against income tax. Not if it’s a regular thing though, for example if you had to attend a fixed meeting every Monday. That would be a permanent arrangement.
why is this the case, simply because contract place of work is at home?If you are home based and your employer asks you to come to the office for a meeting and doesn’t cover all expenses, anything you are out of pocket on can be offset against income tax. So suppose they paid the train fare but wouldn’t cover travel in your car to the station and parking, so you could offset that against income tax. Not if it’s a regular thing though, for example if you had to attend a fixed meeting every Monday. That would be a permanent arrangement.
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