Do you work from home? You could be due over €800!

Are you a PAYE worker who works full or part-time from home? You could be in for a tax break!

Employers can make a payment of €3.20 per workday to an e-Worker employee without deducting Pay As You Earn (PAYE), Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) or Universal Social Charge (USC). So calculating that there are approximately 253 working days, when you deduct weekends, public holidays and paid holidays this could be as much as over €800 in your pocket. This payment is to cover expenses such as heating and electricity costs.

Recent statistics from the CSO show that the number of people working from home is growing by 2,000 people per year, with estimations suggesting that over 100,000 people are now "mainly working at or from home".

So who qualifies?

If you’re working part of the time at home and the remainder at a ‘normal place of work’ or working full time from home, or working on the move with visits to your ‘normal place of work’, you could be in for a Tax Rebate. Going forward it's a substantial tax relief that you may not have been aware of.

Are you an e-Worker? According to Revenue.ie an e-Worker is a person who is;

• working for substantial periods outside the normal place of work
• logging onto a work computer remotely
• sending and receiving email, data or files remotely
• developing ideas, products and services remotely.

So if the above applies to you your employer can make a payment of €3.20 per workday to you without deducting Pay As You Earn (PAYE), Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) or Universal Social Charge (USC). It may not be a fortune but it’s your entitlement and every little helps!

Your employer can also provide the following items to you for business use to without you incurring any benefit-in-kind:

• computer or laptop
• printer
• scanner
• software to allow you to work from home
• telephone, mobile and broadband
• office furniture.

Any questions or for more Information go to Revenue.ie here: https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/employee-expenses/e-working-and-home-workers/index.aspx