From: Jon S Green 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Can I claim tax back?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:06:14 GMT

"tim" <520010973502removethis@t-online.de> wrote:

> But for an employee the expenses also have to be 'necessary'.  IR will
> ask "why can you not use the facilities that your employer provides at
> his office?"  An employee will find this next to impossible to provide a
> satisfactory answer.

Hardly.  Consider the situation I found myself in, up to a month or two
ago.  My employer (actually, the client I was assigned) had closed their
Cambridge office.  The nearest office was in Saltaire, near Bradford.
Not fancying the commute, I telecommuted instead.  Without the broadband
connection, I would have been rather jobless.  In this kind of
situation, I find it hard to believe that the IR would refuse the
broadband expense.

(What I was doing required broadband speeds; dial-up would never have
worked.)


Jon
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