parasol and travel/food expenses

[catboy]

hello,

i finished a contract without claiming for travel etc. and someone at parasol said i couldn't back-claim for them and would have to deal with it through the inland revenue.

stupidly enough i did it for another contract after and asked the same question but the reply i received from that person said that i could claim back (through parasol) travel and expenses for contracts that had already ended.

anyone know which one is correct? i don't want to sit down and tot it all up to be told then that i can't!!!

[pmeswani]

hello,

i finished a contract without claiming for travel etc. and someone at parasol said i couldn't back-claim for them and would have to deal with it through the inland revenue.

stupidly enough i did it for another contract after and asked the same question but the reply i received from that person said that i could claim back (through parasol) travel and expenses for contracts that had already ended.

anyone know which one is correct? i don't want to sit down and tot it all up to be told then that i can't!!!

I would go with the answer from Parasol. It doesn't matter if they are correct or not. If you wanted to claim travel costs, you should have done so when you submitted your timesheets to them, that way everything would have been done when needed and the correct tax would have been calculated.

[catboy]

sorry, perhaps i didn't word it correctly. parasol told me i couldn't. then after the second contract i asked the same question and they told me i could (a different person at their end).

i realise i should've claimed each week's worth with my timesheets but they said i could do it all in one go whenever i liked. re. missing the second lot, the contract ended unexpectedly due to a family bereavement.

[Little'Old Me]

If you complete a tax return you could try and claim tax relief on your expenses and receive a tax rebate.

Or you can complete the form P87 instead and submit it to the HMRC - and claim tax relief on the expenses.

If you can go to a local tax office - you are supposed to be able to go in with your expenses and they can help you with it! Otherwise you should consider getting professional help to do it.

[MarkOD]

Umbrella Companies and the sort can only generally only allow expenses when there is a payment to allocate these to. If you've had all your payments then you can't do it. If you got a 3rd contract with them they may allow you to backdate it but they tend to have a limit on when you can do this

HTH

[catboy]

last one sounds good! thanks guys!