How many hours of your life have you got back since workign from home?

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

If your employer is not paying the working from home rate you can take it as an expense of employment.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/health_and_safety/working_at_home.html

'If your employer pays you an allowance towards these expenses, you can get up to €3.20 per day without paying any tax, PRSI or USC on it. If your employer pays more than €3.20 per day to cover expenses, you pay tax, PRSI and USC as normal on the amount above €3.20.

If your employer does not pay you an allowance for your expenses, you can make a claim for tax relief at the end of the year. You will get money back from the taxes you paid.'

From the way you said it, I misunderstood what you said, I thought you were getting it currently.

Although I suspect you won’t get that much back - the expenses you can claim are only those that you would not have incurred if you were working from home - so only a portion of your bills will be an allowable deduction and all the standing charges won’t be allowed as part of the portion.

We’ll see if it’s clarified later this year or if the claims just sail through when reviews are done

Thanks ðŸ‘

5 days

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

You will save tax at your marginal rate on 3.20 per day. So if you are on the higher tax rate you will be looking at €30 per month. Not a huge amount but given that I have been here for nearly 4 months it is worth making the claim

OT but it's not on 3.20 per day. It's tax relief on the EXPENSES you incur - I.e. internet, heating and electricity.

And even then it's, by default anyway, only 10% portion of them (the other 90% being left for the not working portion of being at home). And then also pro rate for number of days out of 365 worked from home.

So take less than 10% of your utility bill, then at your marginal rate. Wont be zero, won't be much either.

JimmyVik wrote: »

I just added up the time ive save since ive been working from home.
After about 106 days.
Each day there are. 1 hour getting washed and dressed for work.

You might need to start washing again, Jimmy.

https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1277703303741288448?s=19

My commute was only 10 mins so I have saved about a day since mid March.

But I've saved loads in petrol and car tax.

Was usually putting e70 a month into it, now I have not filled it since March 10th and when the tax was up at the end of May I declared it off the road until at least the end of August.