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Paying rent in cash - claiming rent relief?

  • 23-03-2012 10:15am
    #1
    Shurwhynot
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    A friend of mine lived with a friend in 2008 and paid his rent in cash. He doesn't think he can claim rent relief due to this arrangement, and his landlord would have been getting under the 10k approx in rental income during the year to have to declare it. Does anyone else see a problem with him claiming it? PAYE online doesn't even look for the landlords name or address, so i presume it's only if the Revenue come looking for it that he has to hand it over? Or does there have to be a paper trail to prove he lived in the house?


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  • #2
    nompere
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    Shurwhynot wrote: »
    A friend of mine lived with a friend in 2008 and paid his rent in cash. He doesn't think he can claim rent relief due to this arrangement, and his landlord would have been getting under the 10k approx in rental income during the year to have to declare it. Does anyone else see a problem with him claiming it? PAYE online doesn't even look for the landlords name or address, so i presume it's only if the Revenue come looking for it that he has to hand it over? Or does there have to be a paper trail to prove he lived in the house?

    If Revenue come looking, and he can't prove that he paid rent, then he'll be repaying the tax refund, plus (probably) interest and penalties.

    Verifications of PAYE returns are relatively uncommon, so in part it's down to how easy someone finds it to sleep. There's no doubt that if a person pays rent he is entitled to tax relief.


  • #3
    murphy30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭murphy30


    My Wife and I ran into this problem when we rented accomodation over the years. We couldnt prove that we had been paying the correct amount and it was impossible to claim back. As landlords ourselves now and given the PRTB and NPPR requirments I think any landlord would be wise not to accept cash from a tenant.


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