Guides

A PPI tax reclaim is a refund of the 20% basic-rate tax that banks deducted from the interest portion of your PPI payout — tax that, for most people, was taken in error. If you received PPI compensation in the past four tax years and weren’t a higher-rate taxpayer at the time, HMRC almost certainly … Read more

A mileage allowance refund is owed to most UK employees who use their own car, motorbike, or bicycle for work journeys — and whose employer pays less than HMRC’s official rate of 45p per mile. If that’s you, you’re probably owed money. Backdated four years, the typical mileage allowance refund runs into the hundreds. For … Read more

A council tax band check is the simplest way to find out if you’ve been overcharged for years — sometimes decades. Hundreds of thousands of UK homes are in the wrong council tax band, and successful challenges can be backdated all the way to 1993 when the bands were first set. Refunds of £1,000 to … Read more

Working from home tax relief is a free HMRC tax break worth up to £624 if you’ve been required to work from home over the past four tax years. The blanket COVID-era version was scrapped, but the relief itself still exists — and millions of eligible UK workers have never claimed it. If you currently … Read more

The uniform tax rebate is a free HMRC refund for anyone who wears a recognisable work uniform and washes, repairs, or replaces it themselves. It’s worth £60 of tax relief per year for most workers, and significantly more — up to £185 — for specific industries like nursing, ambulance crews, and some trades. You can … Read more

If you’re married or in a civil partnership and one of you earns less than the other, there’s a tax break worth up to £252 a year that around 2.4 million eligible couples never claim. It takes 10 minutes to apply, costs nothing, and you can backdate it by four tax years for a one-off … Read more