It is common for many teachers to wear specialist clothing in the performance of their duties. For example a physical education teacher needing to wear sports clothing to take their pupils for P.E lessons.
An allowance is available for the cost of laundering specialist clothing or uniform with a company logo. In this instance the P.E teacher will usually have to buy their own trainers, football boots and other sports related clothing, as this type of expenditure is not normally met by the School they are employed by.
What can teaching assistants claim a tax refund for?
In a similar way many teaching assistants may have to get involved in activities like games. If this is the case a uniform tax rebate should be available to claim and this can be claimed back for the last four tax years.
If you have to buy particular clothing to perform your duties it is possible to claim tax relief for the cost. This type of tax rebate can be claimed at the same time as a tax rebate for laundering of uniform and can also be backdated for the previous four tax years.
If you make a uniform tax refund claim and or claim for specialist clothing your tax code can be amended which means that you will pay less tax in the future as long as your circumstances do not change.
