Tax relief for agricultural workers

[DanielBennett]

Hi
Are there any tax reliefs a farm employee on PAYE basis claim?
I'm wondering if tax relief can be applied to, for example, work clothing, footwear, work use of personal mobile phone, tools......anything else?
Ta Dan

 

[betweenthelines]

Employer buys it all, it's tax deductable.

Lots of businesses insist on providing boots uniform/workwear and other ppe for employees.

 

[bitwrx]

Yeh, all deductible as business expenses. But you have to be running a business. So not possible as a PAYE employee.

Not a good enough excuse to go self employed either. Farmers don't appreciate the financial risk that SE workers take on, so don't pay accordingly. Also, most jobs don't meet the requirements of self employment anyway.

Easiest thing to do, if the boss doesn't already buy you gear, is ask if you can work something out with your employer so they reclaim the VAT and you pay them the balance. Not 100% sure on how that would be put through the books, so it may require a very amenable employer...

Our team get footwear, overalls, shirts, warm tops and coats, plus waterproofs and obviously any PPE that they or we think is necessary.

 

[DanielBennett]

I should clarify, I'm well looked after by my employer, so me providing my own work wear, phone, etc, is fine by me. Its just can I claim any of the expense I incur against tax?

 

[Wooly]

I should clarify, I'm well looked after by my employer, so me providing my own work wear, phone, etc, is fine by me. Its just can I claim any of the expense I incur against tax?

Ask your employer to buy them and reduce your wages to pay for them............then you won't pay so much tax !

Claim tax relief for your job expenses

Claiming tax relief on expenses you have to pay for your work, like uniforms, tools, travel and working from home costs.

www.gov.uk

 

[Princess Pooper]

I should clarify, I'm well looked after by my employer, so me providing my own work wear, phone, etc, is fine by me. Its just can I claim any of the expense I incur against tax?

Yes you can. I do every year. The link in the post above says how to do it.

 

[kiwi pom]

Employer buys it all, it's tax deductable.

Lots of businesses insist on providing boots uniform/workwear and other ppe for employees.

The employer buys it

 

[Goweresque]

I have a feeling that there is some allowance for washing work clothes. A friend of mine was a chef, and he always washed his own whites, because he got some sort of tax rebate for it.

Claim tax relief for your job expenses

Claiming tax relief on expenses you have to pay for your work, like uniforms, tools, travel and working from home costs.

www.gov.uk

 

[Happy]

The employer buys it

Employer is certainly required to for weather protective clothing necessary for the job.
For a stock person that means employer has to provide waterproof coat/leggings and wellies and replace when no longer fit for purpose.

 

[Highland Mule]

Yeh, all deductible as business expenses. But you have to be running a business. So not possible as a PAYE employee.

Not a good enough excuse to go self employed either. Farmers don't appreciate the financial risk that SE workers take on, so don't pay accordingly. Also, most jobs don't meet the requirements of self employment anyway.

Easiest thing to do, if the boss doesn't already buy you gear, is ask if you can work something out with your employer so they reclaim the VAT and you pay them the balance. Not 100% sure on how that would be put through the books, so it may require a very amenable employer...

Our team get footwear, overalls, shirts, warm tops and coats, plus waterproofs and obviously any PPE that they or we think is necessary.

Careful, I'm fairly sure that they are taxable benefits if they're not fitted with prominent logos. Obviously not the PPE, but general clothing would be.

 

[kiwi pom]

Employer is certainly required to for weather protective clothing necessary for the job.
For a stock person that means employer has to provide waterproof coat/leggings and wellies and replace when no longer fit for purpose.

They may be required to, it certainly never happened when I still lived there though.
Must ask my brother what he gets, as he's still a farm worker there.

 

[bitwrx]

Ask your employer to buy them and reduce your wages to pay for them............then you won't pay so much tax !

Claim tax relief for your job expenses

Claiming tax relief on expenses you have to pay for your work, like uniforms, tools, travel and working from home costs.

www.gov.uk

Well I'm buggered. Never knew that. Sorry for misinforming earlier in the thread.

 

[Agrijas]

£100 year off your paye tax code for washing clothes

 

[betweenthelines]

I should clarify, I'm well looked after by my employer, so me providing my own work wear, phone, etc, is fine by me. Its just can I claim any of the expense I incur against tax?

Well looked after but you subsidise him by using your own phone and paying for work related clothing and PPE?

Unless he never pays tax, he won't be out of pocket by buying that sort of stuff for you.