Certificate In Employment Expenses P87

Before you fill in this form, read the guidance in P87 Notes. 

If you are an employee use this form to tell us about employment expenses you have had to pay during the year for which tax relief is due. These may relate to professional subscriptions, professional fees, mileage, laundry or working from home. Include all expenses for the tax year you want to claim. Only fill in this form if your allowable expenses are £2,500 or less for the year. If your claim is more than £2,500, you will need to fill in a Self Assessment tax return. 

Who is this course for:

This course is designed for all professionals working in different fields. You can apply up to 4 years backdated not longer than that for example if you wanted to apply fill up the forms from years 2023 to 2022, 2022 to 2021 & 2021 to 2020. If you apply more than your application will be returned or rejected.

1. Security Officers and security support officers or reserve officers or Support Management who are employed and were employed 

2. Construction professionals who are employed or were employed 

3. Engineers who are employed and move around for work 

4. Health and safety officer and all other health and safety professionals 

5. Doctors who are employed and move or travel to different places for work 

6. Civil servants 

7. Anyone who is employed and works fully in London or anywhere but travels from outside London or travels from London to different locations or travel distance for work from any city or town.

If you are a high earner then fill up this form and also the self-assessment forms and send them to HMRC if you apply expenses for 4 years of 9,000 GBP then HMRC will pay  1800 GBP which is 20% of the total expenses you applied. 

Higher earner example: 

Expenses applied for 4 years of 16000 GBP and HMRC will pay 3200 GBP comes back to you which simply means Tax man only pays 20% of total expense.

Please contact the Self Assessment Helpline on 0300 200 3310 or register at www.gov.uk/log-in-register-hmrc-online-services Please use this form for multiple years and multiple employments for which you are claiming. To avoid delays in processing your form, complete every box that is appropriate to your claim. The P87 must be signed and dated. Mandatory fields are indicated with *. Forms received without this information will be rejected. If you have not paid any tax during the year no refund will be due.