London Contracts and Travel

[PerfectStorm]

Re: travel expenses - I queried this with my accountant (claiming the cost of a london travelcard)... I live in London and would be going to a London client office every day. He said as long as it's for less than 24 months it's claimable. True? Seems rather long and 'permanent' for an expense.

[TheFaQQer]

Yep its the Traveller club. I used it last time i worked in London too.
Never ever had a problem getting the tickets i want.

Last time I did it, I could never get the freebie on the Monday morning. In the end I would book a random ticket for the Monday so that I could get the Friday freebie.

Last London contract I realised that because the train I caught home on a Friday nearly always declassified the last first class carriage so I could sit in there on my standard ticket.

[captainham]

Re: travel expenses - I queried this with my accountant (claiming the cost of a london travelcard)... I live in London and would be going to a London client office every day. He said as long as it's for less than 24 months it's claimable. True? Seems rather long and 'permanent' for an expense.

Let me google that for you

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...-nutshell.html

http://forums.contractoruk.com/welco...uk-forums.html

[PerfectStorm]

Let me google that for you

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...-nutshell.html

http://forums.contractoruk.com/welco...uk-forums.html

Funnily enough after I posted my last reply I found those threads too. Couldn't see the wood for the trees - consider me thoroughly chastised.

[kal]

Travel to London works out around £250 a week for me (don't include things like lunch which although a bit more expensive isn't that much extra). My current London rate is £150 a day more than the best rate I ever got in the Midlands so its a no brainer really. Contracts closer to home pay a lot less and I may as well travel to London rather than up north as its easier to get to from Birmingham.

[Brussels Slumdog]

Travel to London works out around £250 a week for me (don't include things like lunch which although a bit more expensive isn't that much extra). My current London rate is £150 a day more than the best rate I ever got in the Midlands so its a no brainer really. Contracts closer to home pay a lot less and I may as well travel to London rather than up north as its easier to get to from Birmingham.

Are you staying at a hostel or the YMCA?
It cost me £340 hotel £150 train £120 meals in Slough.

[kal]

Are you staying at a hostel or the YMCA?
It cost me £340 hotel £150 train £120 meals in Slough.

Nope I commute every day (well 4 days a week as I WFH one day)

[kal]

Are you staying at a hostel or the YMCA?
It cost me £340 hotel £150 train £120 meals in Slough.

So you are spending all of that that every week in London from Slough, surely you can just commute every day?

[Alias]

Are you staying at a hostel or the YMCA?
It cost me £340 hotel £150 train £120 meals in Slough.

You are really doing something wrong if you are spending that much in Slough!

[Brussels Slumdog]

So you are spending all of that that every week in London from Slough, surely you can just commute every day?

No Brussels to Slough .Commuting daily would be possible but ridiculous