Use of Home

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

The differential seems to be whether you are required to work from home or if you chose to. If you have no choice but to work from home you can claim for a proportion of household expenses which is calculated by dividing bills by the number of rooms in your house which could be used as a home office; if it is your choice to work from home then that's where the £3 per week comes in.

I'm not sure that really comes into it; I don't remember reading anything about HMRC making that distinction.

You can claim £3 a week no questions asked but you are entitled to claim any household expenses you consider fair as long as you can provide supporting evidence that would satisfy HMRC should you ever have a query.

[d000hg]

How much you can calim depends how much you actually USE your home. I do a % of all bills and end up on £100/month but I work exclusively from home. My accountant queried the amount as very high initially before I explained the situation, if I worked on-site I would struggle to claim more than the trivial sum mentioned above... so low it hardly seems worth it.

[escapeUK]

if I worked on-site I would struggle to claim more than the trivial sum mentioned above... so low it hardly seems worth it.

Which is exactly why I dont bother.