Claiming back tax on your registration fees

Income tax relief on annual fees

The Inland Revenue has agreed that the annual fee payable to HPC is tax deductible and may be claimed by Registrants on their tax return or by application to their tax office. This means that the £76 annual fee is reduced by 22% (for standard rate taxpayers), reducing the fee by £16.72 to £59.28. The tax deduction will be made by an amendment to your PAYE code.

The Inland Revenue has a list (known as List 3) of organisations where such relief can be claimed, the Health Professions Council are on this list.

There are three different ways of claiming tax relief for the expenditure:

1. If you receive a tax return, relief can be claimed on that by detailing the amount paid and to whom. For the time being you should name HPC but add "successor to CPSM". Relief will be granted for the tax year in which the payment was made.

2. You can write to your own tax office. It is important that you include your National Insurance Number (for identification on the Inland Revenue computer), along with the amount, name of payee (i.e. HPC/Successor to CPSM) and date of payment.

3. You can obtain a Form P358 from your local tax enquiry office and complete it as above (remembering the NI Number is important). You should then send it to your tax office and relief should be given.
If registrants have particular problems they should refer them to their own tax office.

Finally we can confirm that registrants may also claim tax relief for subscriptions to their professional bodies, as well as to HPC, in the same tax year. This is provided that their professional body is included on List 3, which is highly likely.