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Tax Claim Facts for teachers and other professionals working in the Education Industry
The vast majority of workers in the education industry including Head Teachers, Lecturers, Secondary and Primary School Teachers can reclaim tax relief for professional fees, sports related clothing, assets / equipment and business mileage for use of their own car for work purposes.
As an education industry professional, for example a teacher, you can claim a teacher tax rebate on the items listed below for the last five years, unless otherwise stated by HMRC. Tax Rebate Services has over 30 years professional taxation experience and is a registered HMRC agent.
To help you further in reclaiming a teacher tax rebate please find below some helpful teacher tax rebate facts: tax relief for professional fees | tax relief for sports related clothing | tax relief for assets / equipment purchased for work use | tax relief for business mileage / use of car for work purposes
Tax Relief for Professional Fees
HMRC allows tax relief on fees into many professional bodies, for example a teacher can claim for NUT tax relief or NASUWT tax relief (please find a list of the majority of allowable professional bodies). A teacher tax rebate for professional fees can be claimed for the last five tax years starting from the 2006-2007 tax year. Following your teacher tax rebate claim, the NUT tax or NASUWT tax relief claimed will be included in your tax code, resulting in you paying less tax in all future years unless your circumstances change.
Tax Relief for Sports Related Clothing
If you are contractually obliged to teach or supervise pupils for P.E. or sports lessons and you have to purchase your own sports related clothing to enable you to perform those duties tax relief can potentially be claimed.
A claim for tax back can be made for the last five years starting currently from the 2006-2007 tax year. HMRC expects receipts to be kept for all expenditure.
If you were unaware that tax relief was available for sports related clothing and therefore did not keep receipts / proof of purchase Tax Rebate Services has a very high teacher tax rebate success rate through negotiating with HMRC and claiming teacher tax relief based on using an average in each tax year.
It is important that receipts are kept for all future claims.
Tax Relief for Assets / Equipment Purchased for Work Use
HMRC allows tax relief on purchases of assets and equipment purchased for work use for example a lap-top or office desk. To qualify for tax relief the purchase has to be bought in the performance of your employment duties and not provided by your employer.
A claim can be made under the capital allowances rulings. It is generally accepted that if the purchase has a lifespan of more than two years it will permissible by HMRC. HMRC expect a receipt / proof of purchase to be kept. The time limit for such a claim is dependent on whether you have completed a self assessment tax return.
Tax Relief for Mileage for use of Car for Work Purposes
It is possible to claim tax relief for using your own car for work purposes also known as business mileage. HMRC does not recognise normal commuting to one permanent place of employment as being business mileage and therefore is not permissible. Business mileage is classified as mileage incurred in doing your job for example a Peripatetic Teacher travelling to varying schools within the community.
The mileage rate allowed by HMRC is .40p per mile up to the 5th April 2011 changing to .45p in the 2011-2012 tax year for the first 10000 miles and .25p per mile thereafter. A mileage claim is still possible even if your employer pays you a mileage allowance which is not the maximum HMRC allowed mileage rate of .40p per mile up to the 5th April 2011 and .45p per mile thereafter and also when any mileage paid by an employer is taxed.
A claim for business mileage can potentially be made for the last five tax years starting from the 2006/2007 tax year.
HMRC requires records to be kept of the locations visited with dates and the business mileage incurred.
If business mileage records have not been kept Tax Rebate Services can still potentially help further and has a high success rate in securing teacher business mileage tax rebates through negotiating with HMRC.
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