HMRC increase the Home Office allowance

[Waldorf]

What would you advise someone who actually works from home, rather than claiming they run a home office for business admin? I've nearly always worked at home - both for paying clients and on my plan B - so I expense £100/month which is 10-15% of the house's 'running costs', on the basis one room in the house is set aside as my full-time office.

This is what is on their website:

http://www.nixonwilliams.com/images/...e%20Office.pdf

seems a choice between the flat rate or setting up a rental agreement.

[xoggoth]

I believe the only people in the UK with a legal right to enter your home at any stage, is HMRC and the Customs and Excise peeps.

There was song about this decades ago, it had a chorus "We've a statutary right to enter in your home" Flanders and Swan? It was quite a long song anyway.

PS Ah no, it was Richard Stilgoe. "Statutory Right of Entry to your Home" (And he spelt stattuetary correctly)

PPS Also:

•Fire Brigade
•Gas and Electricity Suppliers
•Water Companies
•Housing
•Planning and Rating
•Mental Health
•Infectious Diseases and Illness
•Pests and Vermin
•Smoking
•Concerns about children
•Search Orders
•Bailiffs and Enforcement Officers

http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrig...ome/index.html

[d000hg]

This is what is on their website:

http://www.nixonwilliams.com/images/...e%20Office.pdf

seems a choice between the flat rate or setting up a rental agreement.

If you trade through a limited company it is possible that you can claim for more than £156 per annum, however, you will need
to set up a rental agreement between you and your company. Failure to have a formal agreement could lead HMRC to classify
the rent as extra salary with the Tax/NIC consequences of this.

Now I'm more confused, I never heard this (formal rental agreement) being advised by my current or my previous accountant.

I've previously got my information from:
Specific deductions: use of home: specific expenses
Specific deductions: use of home: examples

[Nixon Williams]

Now I'm more confused, I never heard this (formal rental agreement) being advised by my current or my previous accountant.

I've previously got my information from:
Specific deductions: use of home: specific expenses
Specific deductions: use of home: examples

It is an option, but as I said in a previous post, it is not something we would generally recommend.

However for clients who show an interest in doing it, we have the details of what they need to do in order to be successful.

Alan