Can I claim Tesco food from home?

[SueEllen]

Ok, so are you saying he's better off offering the sandwiches round and putting it through as business entertainment?

I don't think a house party counts as a business expense.

[tractor]

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You could buy £500 quids worth of sandwiches in January and pretend it's the company Xmas party!

[GB9]

I collect as many receipts as I can and stuff 'em in to envelopes marked 'Exp, Mar 2013' or whatever so they are bulging with irrelevant stuff such as ATM slips, receipts and CC slip too, as much as possible in the hope that even if I do get investigated the HMRC guy will just say 'Oh, that's a lot - looks ok to me, it's fine' After I've bunged some dodgy cloudy Russian hooch-vodka I got off AtW in his tea of course...

But I'm claiming scale rates anyway...

Only downside to this is that on the one occasion I had an HMRC check, the inspector looked through my accounts, saw an expense and asked if I could show the receipt for it. At that point you hope you have got your envelopes correct. And I had made her 2 cups of tea.

[Old Greg]

I don't think a house party counts as a business expense.

But you offer them round at work and then bring the leftovers home.