Hi all,
My employer is looking to change the contractual place of work from home based to office based purely due to cost of commute and other HMRC implications (which are unknown to me). They don't want people to claim return journey to the office since folks moved to places like Isle of Weight, Southampton, Margate, etc.
I looked at the HMRC guidelines and by definition your permanent place of work is were you worked continuously for over 24 months and spend over 40% of your working week so it a situation where an employee has to travel to the office that journey can be expensed .
But where I am getting confused is that it also states that working from home is employees' choice therefore the cost of commute to the office can't be refunded.
I know that our people won't be happy about this change and there is even less chance that they would travel in to the office if they won't be able to expense it.
Has anyone got any insights?
Thank you