As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly claim working from home tax relief.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the GOV.UK guidance on tax relief for working from home and note the tax year, eligibility wording and submission route that apply to you.
   2. Gather your employment contract or employer instruction, payslips or P60, dates worked from home, employer payments, expense records and receipts or other evidence.
   3. Write down whether you were required to work from home or chose to do so, and list any other jobs, Self Assessment income or previous claim that could affect the answer.
   4. Paste the gathered facts into the prompt, then answer the chatbot's questions without allowing it to fill gaps with assumptions.
   5. Compare every eligibility statement, rate, deadline and GOV.UK link in the response with the live GOV.UK page, and recalculate the arithmetic from your own records.
   6. Follow the verified GOV.UK submission route, enter only figures you can support, save the confirmation and evidence, and ask an accountant or tax adviser to check a complex or high-value case.

   Prompt

   Help me work out whether I may claim UK working from home tax relief for [tax year]. This is a planning and checking exercise, not a final tax decision. Use only current GOV.UK guidance and provide the relevant GOV.UK links. Do not invent rates, thresholds, deadlines or eligibility rules. Ask me for any missing facts before calculating anything.
   
   My details:
   - Employment status and job: [employee, director or other]
   - Tax year: [tax year]
   - Was I required to work from home, or did I choose to do so: [details]
   - Dates or proportion of the year worked from home: [details]
   - Employer reimbursement or allowance for homeworking costs: [amount and period, or none]
   - Homeworking costs I paid personally: [item, amount, period and evidence held]
   - Whether I use any actual-cost method or have claimed this before: [details]
   - Whether I have other employment, Self Assessment income or unusual circumstances: [details]
   
   First, explain which facts determine eligibility and separate confirmed GOV.UK rules from points that need an accountant or HMRC to confirm. Then show the calculation using only figures I supplied or figures you can verify on GOV.UK. Do not assume that working from home automatically qualifies. Do not recommend a claim if the evidence is insufficient. Produce a final checklist of documents, the GOV.UK submission route, the information I must enter, and the checks I must complete before submitting. State clearly that I remain responsible for the claim.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.