SE32825 - Other expenses: household expenses: apportionment of bills

Section 198 ICTA 1988

This guidance only applies:

  • where an employee's home is a workplace, see SE32760
  • for years up to and including 2005/06. For 2006/07 onwards, see EIM32815.

Where a number of rooms in the employee's home are exclusively used for business and are not used for any other purpose at any time, an apportionment may be made of the expenses listed in SE32815 except for telephone expenses.

A deduction should be permitted for the same proportion of the expenses as the number of rooms used exclusively for business bears to the total number of rooms in the house, but excluding any bathrooms, lavatories or entrance halls.

A typical calculation is shown at example SE32835.