More than 80% of people in Ireland's new mobile workforce could be missing out on up to €100 per year by not claiming Work from Home tax relief.
That's according to the latest Taxback.com Taxpayer Sentiment Survey, that sought to understand the sharp underutilisation of this relief among those who work from home.
They questioned the understanding of 1,200 taxpayers of how the relief works in practice, and it was found that nearly 8 in 10 do not fully understand its application when it comes to a house-share situation.
875,000 people are estimated as having been remote workers since the beginning of the covid pandemic, but just 90,000 people made a claim for tax relief for working from home expenses as of May this year - so just 10% of those who are eligible.
Barry Cahill of Taxback.com spoke to our reporter Diarmuid Pepper about the findings of the survey and cleared up some of the confusion surrounding the work from home tax relief:
