Am I getting the full tax relief for working from home?

One hybrid worker assumed his payroll had already taken care of everything — until his electricity, heating and broadband costs were reviewed properly and a working-from-home refund was still available.

If you work from home in Ireland, even for part of the week, your PAYE tax may not be fully correct unless your Remote Working Relief has actually been claimed.

Your employer may process your wages correctly, but that does not mean your home-working tax relief has been claimed for you. Your payroll does not automatically know your electricity bills, heating costs, broadband payments, or the exact number of days you worked from home.

What is working-from-home tax relief?
Remote Working Relief allows you to claim tax relief on part of your household costs when you work from home.

Revenue allows you to attribute 30% of your electricity, heating and broadband costs to remote working, and the claim is then apportioned based on the number of days you worked from home during the year. The relief is given at your highest rate of tax.

That means you are not claiming back the full bill. You are claiming tax relief on the allowable working-from-home portion.

Are you getting the full relief?
You may not be getting the full relief if:

You worked from home but never claimed Remote Working Relief
You claimed one year but forgot previous years
You did not include broadband
You did not include heating
You did not keep or upload receipts
You guessed your working-from-home days
Your employer paid no working-from-home allowance
Your employer paid less than your allowable costs
If your employer pays you up to €3.20 per day for remote working, that payment can be made without deducting tax. If your employer does not pay it, or pays less than your allowable costs, you may be able to claim Remote Working Relief yourself.

How is the relief calculated?
Revenue’s formula is based on your allowable bills, your remote working days, the number of days in the tax year, and any remote working allowance paid by your employer.

In plain English, your claim depends on:

Your electricity, heating and broadband costs
Your number of working-from-home days
Your employer’s contribution, if any
Your marginal tax rate

So if you worked from home regularly and paid your own household bills, it is worth checking properly.

What documents should you have?
To make a proper claim, you should gather:

Electricity bills
Gas, oil, or other heating bills
Broadband bills
A record of your working-from-home days
Details of any employer remote working allowance
Any Revenue receipts already uploaded
Revenue says receipts and bills can be entered using Receipts Tracker in myAccount, and prior-year Remote Working Relief claims are processed through your Income Tax Return.

How do you claim it?
For a previous year, you claim through Revenue myAccount by reviewing your tax for the previous four years, selecting the relevant year, requesting your Preliminary End of Year Statement, completing your Income Tax Return, and choosing Remote Working Relief under Tax Credits and Reliefs.

For 2026, Revenue states that you can claim the relief during the year.

Why this matters
You may have worked from home. You may have paid the household bills. You may have missed electricity, heating or broadband. You may have previous years still available.

You may be owed a refund. And you will not know unless your working-from-home relief is checked properly.

Worth 5 minutes to check what you're owed? Start the PAYE refund form.