Hey peeps,
My job means I spend a 1/3 of the year on call and as such have to have a phone for all of our offices to be diverted to me.
In the past work has paid for our home phone cost and I have paid the relevant tax contirbutions at the end of the year via the P11D.
Work in its wisdom has now changed the way they do this and now I have to pay the bill myself. The bill is then given to work who re-imburses me on my next wage.
This means though that I am now paying tax & NI contributions on this re-imbursement. Apparantly at the end of the year I can claim business calls on the P11D to offset this but think this will be little more than the outgoing calls.
So i'm now paying the vat on the bill, more income tax than I had previous, NI contributions on it (WTF) and only getting tax relief on calls made not the line rental.
I don't use the phone for out personal calls as I use my mobile (freem minutes etc) so the landline is not a benefit to me and I wouldn't have one if I didn't need it for work.
How should this be being done, Work has a history of doing things the mickey mouse way.
Oh and Before you get your pitch forks out....
I am happy to pay tax on it (The correct amount)
I also use my own mobile 1000x more than the land line which I pay for entirely.
