Expences - Eye test and Glasses

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Glasses through the company? I guess that one is going on the hall of fame next to driving lessons, speeding fines etc. People that can't work this out for themselves should not be running a company, or at least first in line for a visit from HMRC so they will leave the rest of us that try to understand our companies alone.

Considering some companies will give employees all kinds of weird things in their package - catered gourmet meals, gym membership, private healthcare plans, I don't think this is a dumb question.

Starting a company, especially for contracting where you don't do it because you want to run a company, is a step into the unknown.

I bet loads of people didn't/don't know you can claim for eye tests for instance!

[mudskipper]

Considering some companies will give employees all kinds of weird things in their package - catered gourmet meals, gym membership, private healthcare plans, I don't think this is a dumb question.

Starting a company, especially for contracting where you don't do it because you want to run a company, is a step into the unknown.

I bet loads of people didn't/don't know you can claim for eye tests for instance!

Elf and safety, innit.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf

What do employers have to do to comply?

On request arrange eye tests, and provide spectacles if special ones
are needed

Employees covered by the Regulations can ask their employer to provide and pay
for an eye and eyesight test. This is a test by an optometrist or doctor. There is
also an entitlement to further tests at regular intervals; the optometrist doing the
first test can recommend when the next should be. Employers only have to pay for
spectacles if special ones (for example, prescribed for the distance at which the
screen is viewed) are needed and normal ones cannot be used.