Tax relief allowance

When claiming for tax relief, it says that you can claim via the tax relief page as long as "your total expenses claim for each tax year is £2,500 or less — if the amount is more than £2,500, you need to fill in a Self Assessment tax return" Does this mean the total amount paid at the time of the expenses cannot exceed £2500 or the amount that will hopefully be claimed back must be less than £2500 (e.g. 20% of the cost of the expenses eligible to be claimed from)? Thank you

Hi,
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Thank you.

Not HMRC...nothing to do with n.i....it means total expenses you wish to claim must be less than £2500 to be claimed if not doing SA (complete P87 instead). If you wish to claim more than £2500 expenses against employment, i.e. total amounts for employment related expenses such as subscriptions, mileage etc then you must submit SA