{"id":6152,"date":"2020-05-28T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-on-line-ehs.co.uk\/ehs\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:28:28","slug":"uk-covid-19-income-tax-and-social-security-contributions-reimbursed-for-home-office-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/blog\/uk-covid-19-income-tax-and-social-security-contributions-reimbursed-for-home-office-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"UK | COVID-19 | Income tax and social security contributions reimbursed for home office equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"separator separator--center separator--gradient separator--md\"><\/span>\n\n\n<h4><span class=\"has-inline-color has-color-5-color\"><strong>EHS regulatory compliance and monitoring \u2013 an expert solution to ensure your organization\u2019s compliance <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay ahead of evolving HSE requirements across 300+ jurisdictions, with daily updates curated by our in-house legal experts.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bttn-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/solutions\/regulatory-compliance-and-monitoring\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"bttn  bttn--md\"><span class=\"bttn__cont-label-icon\"><span class=\"bttn__label\">Discover Red-on-line\u2019s regulatory compliance and monitoring solution.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div>  Keep up with the rapidly evolving COVID-19 regulatory landscape with Red-on-line COVID-19 legal watch. Red-on-line\u2019s EHS legal experts track and evaluate the latest COVID-19 regulations and guidance from around the world daily.  The government published new regulations targeting employees who have spent on office equipment to enable home working necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. The two new regulations respectively provide an exemption from income tax and from social security contributions for amounts reimbursed to an employee for expenses that the employee has incurred in obtaining office equipment to enable home working necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. These Regulations will take effect for payments made on or after the day on 11 June 2020 up until the end of the tax year 2020-21.  <\/div>\n<div> Sources:<a>The Income Tax (Exemption for Coronavirus Related Home Office Expenses) Regulations 2020<\/a> published on 20 May 2020 as UK Statutory instruments.  <a>The Social Security Contributions (Disregarded Payments) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020<\/a> published on 20 May 2020 as UK Statutory instruments.  <a><img \/><\/a>  <\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[591,611],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK | COVID-19 | Income tax and social security contributions reimbursed for home office equipment - Red On line (COM)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/blog\/uk-covid-19-income-tax-and-social-security-contributions-reimbursed-for-home-office-equipment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK | COVID-19 | Income tax and social security contributions reimbursed for home office equipment - Red On line (COM)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Keep up with the rapidly evolving COVID-19 regulatory landscape with Red-on-line COVID-19 legal watch. 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