Question follow-through · 85339
Remote Working and Self-employed: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review the flat rate of simplified expenses for people who (a) are self-employed and (b) work from home.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review the flat rate of simplified expenses for people who (a) are self-employed and (b) work from home.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
Self-employed people who work from home can deduct the actual cost of working from home when working out their profits, or use simplified expenses. There are three different rates of simplified expenses depending on the number of hours worked from home. A...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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