Chartered accountant GAIL FREEMAN shares tips on how to help your tax return sail through. This is a sponsored post. THE 2021 tax season has started and, from interviews with some of her clients, chartered accountant Gail Freeman has noticed consistent mistakes. Here she offers hints to ensure your tax return doesn’t get held up at the Australian Taxation Office. Gail Freeman. Everyone, it seems, wants to claim 80 cents an hour for working at home this year. However, there are a few requirements to making this claim. Firstly, 80 cents an hour is all that can be claimed; no phone, no internet, no equipment. So it’s pointless providing receipts for other items if claiming the 80 cents an hour for working from home.