I have both a salaried job that was in an office and do extra self-employed work from home. I used to add a small part of utility bills as expenses in order to account for that. However, I realised my bills have increased substantially mainly because from Covid on my salaried work has downsized the office and we are asked to come only 1 day/week. So I am at home, not exactly by choice. I am a bit confused about the effect on the self-assessment, can/should I just increase the % of utility bills to account for the extra time home so it's deducted from my self employement income?
I followed the wizard from the £6/week description (not sure how that applies if you do 4 days at home, 1 office), and it pointed me to the self-assessment.
I'd have to amend last year's (I assume I can, I already amended once due to other reason), but it just occurred to me as I was "marvelling" of my new power tariff and calculating that just the electricity and just for my computer setup for a day's work from home will be about £1! Never mind heating, etc above that. Madness, but that's not for this forum.
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