parking tickets & Fines - allowable expense?

[css_jay99]

Hi, Guys

I wanted to know if parking tickets & Fines are allowable expenses when incured as a result going to the client ?


css_jay99

[ASB]

Hi, Guys

I wanted to know if parking tickets & Fines are allowable expenses when incured as a result going to the client ?


css_jay99

No.

[css_jay99]

what, not even parking meter ?

Can I charge my Co. for just driving to the station ?

[Pondlife]

There's a big difference between fines/penaties and legitimate tickets purchased.

[ASB]

what, not even parking meter ?

Can I charge my Co. for just driving to the station ?

Ah.. ,you meant tickets as in "I'll buy one of these to let me park here". That is ok.

No penalties are claimable.

[css_jay99]

cheers

[ASB]

Fines

I'm wrong again.

Advice I received was that fines are never claimable. But, thinking about this a bit more, what if you buy a 12 hour ticket at the station car park, bugger off to clients and everything goes tits up. You come back 5 hours over your limit to a car parking fine.

It does seem a bit unreasonable that this should be a personal liability.

It does seem there are circumstances where it might not be:-

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/bimmanual/BIM45101.htm
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM21686.htm
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/nimmanual/NIM05630.htm

So, if you do get a ticket put it through and see what your accountant says. [Mine said no but YMMV].

[xoggoth]

Penalties by the state (inc local government) are not claimable. Not sure that applies to penalties by private companies, NCP and and so on.

[Pondlife]

You come back 5 hours over your limit to a car parking fine.

It does seem a bit unreasonable that this should be a personal liability.

.....

So, if you do get a ticket put it through and see what your accountant says. [Mine said no but YMMV].

I suppose if you had a receipt from NCP for £xx it wouldn't really matter that some of it was a penalty - it's all just parking charges.

A ticket from a traffic warden would be different.

[TheMonkey]

Talking of which, some absolute insanely anal BASTARD got me in Camden yesterday for going 2 minutes over the paid for hour (ironically being 2 minutes late because some tosser parking attendant had crashed his moped and caused the pavement to be blocked for ages).