Inside ir35 contract and expenses

[gisp]

I got the impression no expenses are allowed in ir35 contract.
however agency and umbrella both keep mentioning expenses recovering sheets for things like visiting client's office.
What's the story with these and am I missing something?

Each visit for me is £x00 per week.

[malvolio]

I got the impression no expenses are allowed in ir35 contract.
however agency and umbrella both keep mentioning expenses recovering sheets for things like visiting client's office.
What's the story with these and am I missing something?

Each visit for me is £x00 per week.

Probably you are. You can't have expenses to your normal place of work, which is treated as being your permanent workplace and so your journey there is a commute. However you can expense trips to another client location, which would be a temporary workplace.

From what you've said, expenses are clearly not allowable, you're merely working from home. don't ever expect an agent to know the rules. Think carefully about the umbrella because either they don't know them either or they are trying to boost your income by breaking them; both are equally bad.

Also be a little bit careful. There is a case of a GP who had two workplaces with roughly equal attendance and was done for claiming expenses, so you need to be clear that trips elsewhere are the exception rather than a routine occurrence like every Thursday and Friday.

[JustKeepSwimming]

I would imagine they are referring to the client refunding some expenses, such as travel to another office other than your base office. You're contracted office in London but you need to go to Glasgow for a few days.

As typically you submit expenses sheet to your agency/umbrella who then add it onto the invoice for time.

[northernladuk]

You can't claim expenses against your tax like you would if you had a LTD. Laptops, basic mileage, hotels etc.

You can reclaim agreed money from the client for certain stuff like agreed mileage and stays. But this is client re-imbursed expenses, not you spending to save the tax. Both are expenses but completely different things.

I'm surprised they've mentioned it because evidence we've seen on here is that they really don't like putting this stuff through.