Reply to: Office Rental - expense...?

[Craig@Clarity]

We've got a guy on at the moment asking for advice about the self employment scheme and it turns out he's via an umbrella...

Point me to the thread Scrappy and Scooby will have a looksee.

[northernladuk]

Not really.

We've got a guy on at the moment asking for advice about the self employment scheme and it turns out he's via an umbrella...

[Craig@Clarity]

That's quite an assumption with the posts we've been having over the last few months

Not really.

[northernladuk]

Of course.

It's assumed the OP is running their own biz since they made reference to "put it through the books".

That's quite an assumption with the posts we've been having over the last few months

[Craig@Clarity]

Unless under an umbrella of-course


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Of course.

It's assumed the OP is running their own biz since they made reference to "put it through the books".

[GhostofTarbera]

Use of home is even going up from £4 a week to £6 from 6 April...

Renting an office is fine unless you've been booted out of home too due to isolation etc. I don't think you're allowed to kip at the office though. Perhaps if you fell asleep at your desk you maybe ok.... Seriously though, fine to rent an office, have a company mobile phone, pay for stationery, accountancy fees etc and probably hand sanitisers for the office if you can find any. As someone has mentioned, whether any offices are open is a different situation.

Unless under an umbrella of-course


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[Craig@Clarity]

Use of home is even going up from £4 a week to £6 from 6 April...

Renting an office is fine unless you've been booted out of home too due to isolation etc. I don't think you're allowed to kip at the office though. Perhaps if you fell asleep at your desk you maybe ok.... Seriously though, fine to rent an office, have a company mobile phone, pay for stationery, accountancy fees etc and probably hand sanitisers for the office if you can find any. As someone has mentioned, whether any offices are open is a different situation.

[Lance]

In hindsight, it did sound like something for Captain Obvious...however since I've been claiming home office expenses previously to suddenly expense an office too might have seemed marginal. I've simply cut off the home expenses expenses and yes deffo put the lease in my CoName cheers

STOP THE PRESS: You can claim both.

[ApeShape]

In hindsight, it did sound like something for Captain Obvious...however since I've been claiming home office expenses previously to suddenly expense an office too might have seemed marginal. I've simply cut off the home expenses expenses and yes deffo put the lease in my CoName cheers

[ladymuck]

Could I have been paying my business accountancy fees from my business account all this time?

It depends... Do your business accountancy fees cover business accountancy for your business?

[Highland]

Could I have been paying my business accountancy fees from my business account all this time?

[Andy Hallett]

You are at risk of sounding like a contractor running at a business

[northernladuk]

Business rents office and you are asking if that is allowable? Honestly....

Unless there is something else to this we don't know as there often is with `Can I' questions... But then this could be just be a genuine but ridiculous question.

[Lance]

Basically, because of the situation working from home is not an option. I have had vulnerable family members move in and they need to use my home office for isolation purposes (they caught on har har) So yeah there goes my working from home space. What I've managed to do though is temporarily hire out a cheap office space. I've put it through the books, any chance HMRC going to go ballistic?

I'm just not even sure why you'd think this was going to be a problem. Most businesses rent commercial property You run a business don't you?

[vwdan]

Re read the question, it's a legit answer

Ah, I was reading it as an answer to the thread title!