Slapped wrist or asking for trouble

[gingerjedi]

I stopped claiming travel expenses all together as soon as I knew I would be here beyond 24 months, I never bothered claiming for food as soon as OG started saying you need to keep receipts (I'm ltd now).

Despite this there are others here who still claim for everything and say the 24 month rule doesn’t apply to them since the end client changed, I know they are wrong and I'd rather have peace of mind than a few extra quid in my pocket.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Makes me feel quite sick, 360 have basically made out to me that I can claim £10 every day and only once every so often will they check my compliance by asking for receipts for a week and then continue to alow me to claim £10 a DAY without receipts. For a 40% tax payer thats over £100 in fraudulent expenses.

I don't want to risk it but I wish I could show people around me the real risk, not the what ifs but hard fast cases where IR have investigated a meagre case (not a big bod whos done loads of fraud). Therefore giving me the satisfaction that everyone is on levelk playing field rather than the bad people being rewarded for their dishonesty!

At the end of the day ask your colleagues whether they think it likely that Gordon Brown would give them £50 a week just for going to work which is really what the £10 per day unreceipted amounts to. I think anyone would agree that it's not really very likely!

[Bluebird]

The bottom line is that you are a business - you should only claim for expenses that you have actually incurred.

If you work away from home claim the costs of stays and subsitance, if not you've got milage.

Any business costs are paid for by the business.

The rewards for using running your own company rather than doing PAYE are great enough - why risk an investigation and all that it entails for a few extra quid - if money is that important get a higher paid contract.

It does amaze me that a lot of people on here moan about expenses that other claim fraudulently, % agents take from cleints, when in fact they get recieve a lot more money than if they were doing the same job as a permie.

As Mal says time again, if you are a business, think like one - if not get yourself a perm job.

[Cowboy Bob]

I don't want to risk it but I wish I could show people around me the real risk, not the what ifs but hard fast cases where IR have investigated a meagre case (not a big bod whos done loads of fraud). Therefore giving me the satisfaction that everyone is on levelk playing field rather than the bad people being rewarded for their dishonesty!

How about our very own SallyAnne? - http://forums.contractoruk.com/threa...-expenses.html

[ssaunders]

hands in our pockets!

up to 30 years for fraud, while a nonce gets 18 months. shows how cock eyed the system is. if people want to abuse it then let them :- you pays your money and you take your chance.
If someone wants to recoup some cash from Mr Brown, then let them, he constantly has his hand in our pocket. you cant even die nowadays without it costing.
last week i paid 300 tax and NI, where does it go, NHS? NO. Roads? NO. education? NO. this (and all) goverment(s) take more and more and give less and less.
in the words of jerry mcguire
SHOW ME THE MONEY.

my rant for the day

live long and prosper

[Ardesco]

up to 30 years for fraud, while a nonce gets 18 months. shows how cock eyed the system is.

That is up to 30 years, depending on the severity of the crime. You haven't defined what you mean by nonce, and what sort of crime you are saying they have committed so it doesn't really show how cock eyed the system is.

The big problem with the british justice system is that the law has nothing to do with what is right and wrong, it is simply a game that barristers get paid lots of money to play. The biggest injustice is that most hardened criminals know how to play the game, and they play it well. This means they get away with short sentances, and even no sentance sometimes while your average Joe Bloggs who doesn't normally get into trouble and has no idea how to play the game loses out and is often made an example to discourage other average Joe Bloggs' from doing the same thing.