Claiming £5 A Day Sustience With No Receipts...

[blacjac]

Is it only if you stay away from home??

If I staying at home do I have to keep receipts for every meal I eat?? Or can I claim £5 a day sustincene?

Yes £5 per day if you are staying away from home in the UK, £10 per day if abroad.

However seeing as you are staing at home, the HMRC will let you claim £50 per day with no reciepts and no benfit in kind as you are using less resources and helping with climate change. Isn't that nice of them?

[Mr.Whippy]

Sustience

sustincene



WTF?

If I were you I'd spend the £5 on a dictionary.

HTH

[Board Game Geek]

Right, understand this.

If and when you get an HMRC investigation, receipts are necessary for proof at the time of investigation.

Keep the receipts, or HMRC will make your life even more hell than they do.

[NickFitz]

The £5-a-day allowance appears in HMRC's manual under the general heading of Travel Expenses: Accommodation and Subsistence but it isn't for subsistence as such, it's for other incidental overnight expenses.

Also it isn't strictly speaking an allowance: it's the expenditure that an employer may reimburse tax-free, which implies that it should have been incurred in the first place.

[DiscoStu]

Sustience

sustincene



WTF?

If I were you I'd spend the £5 on a dictionary.

HTH

[norrahe]

Yes £5 per day if you are staying away from home in the UK, £10 per day if abroad.

However seeing as you are staing at home, the HMRC will let you claim £50 per day with no reciepts and no benfit in kind as you are using less resources and helping with climate change. Isn't that nice of them?

depends on your accountant, I claim £10 per day

[NotAllThere]

Shouldn't these replies be in this thread?

[shaunbhoy]

At the end of the day, you may need to prove it. Be creative and slippery with your expenses and you should be OK.

FTFY

[stillooking]

I claim £20 a day subsistence when working away from home, so hope I'm allowed this... I keep all receipts to support it.

Having contracted at HMRC know for a fact that the civil servants are allowed £25 per night subsistence if away from home.

[blacjac]

depends on your accountant

Interesting....

So the Tax Laws change dependant on your accountant then?