So you’re leaving the house for work again, either some or all of the week: here’s what you can claim
For that reason, you may be better off sticking with the original method for claiming WFH costs, known as the fixed rate method.
“The claim is going to be quite small, because you start the depreciation in July and you’ve got to stop it in October when you’re no longer using that computer solely for work,” says Francis. “So if you’re claiming a $2,000 computer, firstly, it needs to be depreciated over probably three years. That’s already limiting your claim, then you’ve got to cap it at only the four months we were lockdown, because that’s the only time you were using it.
“Checking a few emails and doing an hour’s work at home, then travelling to the office would not normally constitute travel between two places of work,” Campbell says. “Whereas if someone was required to work from home in the morning and then required to come into the office halfway through the day, then that trip would be deductible. The emphasis would be around ‘required’.”
Similarly, if you had to buy your own PPE, masks or hand sanitiser to go to work, you can claim those expenses as well.You might be tempted to take liberties with those WFH expenses. But that’s probably not a good idea, Francis says.“A lot of people have taken the piss a little bit, claiming couches and furniture that’s not really home office-related. There’s been some people claiming athleisure wear because that’s what they wear while they’re working.
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