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Previously on "Claiming back expenses (from previous financial years)"
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What happens if he hasn't been submitting dormant accounts? Does that include submitting nil Paye and NIC for the ltd?
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Its OK to claim formation and pre-trading expenses so long as they relate 100% to the business you set-up. If your company did not actually start trading back in 2009 then I would suggest you bring these into your current trading period (on the assumption no trading period has existed before - have you been filing dormant accounts for the company?). The business cards, domain names etc all sound OK so long as you found no personal use for them - the notebook??...well, your personal use of this over the past 2 years has probably been significant in relation to its business use - unless there are other factors at play here which you have not mentioned, there would be a benefit-in-kind charge to be applied. Probably better to sell the computer to your business now at market value and claim the tax deduction for that (so long as its primary purpose is business use - see HM Revenue & Customs: Computers loaned to an employee).
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Personally I would have written if off then after so long if nothing else but to avoid being a blip on HMRC's radar but would be interested to see what the accoutants say. Hopefully one will pop up tomorrow.
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I founded the business in March 2009 and got most of them items around that time. Hunted for contracts for a few months. Gave up in December and went perm for 18 months and now in August after looking for a while finally got some contracts lined up ...
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Originally posted by John Doe View PostI bought a notebook, virtual office mail redirect, fax redirect, business cards, domain names & email hosting, ...
I am being pedantic here but I appreciate you would claim you were building your business up ready for when you went contracting.... but 2 years? Will HMRC see the funny side of it over such a long period of time? The latop particularly could be out of date by now and has been used purely for personal use so BIK has to be taken in to account?
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I bought a notebook, virtual office mail redirect, fax redirect, business cards, domain names & email hosting, ...
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Just out of interest what did you pay on the company in the last 2 years while you were permie? Wouldn't buying consumables/PC's or whatever (am guessing here) for a company that isn't trading a bit iffy??
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Hi, welcome to the board
Strictly speaking you should have declared previous years as a loss, which could now be used to offset against profit. You can probably restate these returns. Might raise an eyebrow with HMRC - and cause you to appear as a blip on their radar, but as there are no monies due to HMRC, it won't cause you any problems in that respect.
However, you may be able to simply include them in this year. In the past, I have mislaid a receipt, but later found it. Accountant was happy to simply include it in the next year's returns. But that was for a one-off item - and a capital item at that, so had multi-year potential, rather than a revenue expense that is specifically tied to activities in one year.
An accountant can give a better answer, but it may be the case that some of the expenditure can be included, whereas others not, so you may need to go through item by item with an expert.Last edited by centurian; 14 August 2011, 15:44.
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Claiming back expenses (from previous financial years)
Dear All,
I founded my Limited company in March 2009. Unfortunately, because the contracting market was not very good at the time I was forced to take a permanent job for a while.
Now I finally got some contracting work lined up. I have spent about 2k on the company over the last few years (I paid everything out of my pocket).
So I was wondering whether I can still claim back the 2k as expenses even though they do not fall in this financial year? I got all receipts and I have submitted my yearly returns to company house (The accounts were submitted as 0 as I did not have any income).
So can I just claim them back through expenses?
Cheer
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