Reply to: Can I claim Tesco food from home?

[Old Greg]

I don't think a house party counts as a business expense.

But you offer them round at work and then bring the leftovers home.

[GB9]

I collect as many receipts as I can and stuff 'em in to envelopes marked 'Exp, Mar 2013' or whatever so they are bulging with irrelevant stuff such as ATM slips, receipts and CC slip too, as much as possible in the hope that even if I do get investigated the HMRC guy will just say 'Oh, that's a lot - looks ok to me, it's fine' After I've bunged some dodgy cloudy Russian hooch-vodka I got off AtW in his tea of course...

But I'm claiming scale rates anyway...

Only downside to this is that on the one occasion I had an HMRC check, the inspector looked through my accounts, saw an expense and asked if I could show the receipt for it. At that point you hope you have got your envelopes correct. And I had made her 2 cups of tea.

[tractor]

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You could buy £500 quids worth of sandwiches in January and pretend it's the company Xmas party!

[SueEllen]

Ok, so are you saying he's better off offering the sandwiches round and putting it through as business entertainment?

I don't think a house party counts as a business expense.

[Old Greg]

We have already established the intelligence of the poster so don't confuse him/her.

Ok, so are you saying he's better off offering the sandwiches round and putting it through as business entertainment?

[SueEllen]

Surely he can claim? Just declare the BIK and pay the tax on it.

We have already established the intelligence of the poster so don't confuse him/her.

[Old Greg]

Surely he can claim? Just declare the BIK and pay the tax on it.

[eek]

No, some idiot posts might be genuine. And many posters only post in the Professional forums.

Also what to me may seem to be dodgy and playing the system is often the done thing in many consultancies and umbrellas.

[cojak]

Can I claim Tesco food from home?

No, some idiot posts might be genuine. And many posters only post in the Professional forums.

[blinko]

Another person with one post, straight into the accounts and can I do XYZ,

Mods can we have a minimum of 10 posts or something before people are allowed to post in the accountancy/legal forum please

[stek]

I collect as many receipts as I can and stuff 'em in to envelopes marked 'Exp, Mar 2013' or whatever so they are bulging with irrelevant stuff such as ATM slips, receipts and CC slip too, as much as possible in the hope that even if I do get investigated the HMRC guy will just say 'Oh, that's a lot - looks ok to me, it's fine' After I've bunged some dodgy cloudy Russian hooch-vodka I got off AtW in his tea of course...

But I'm claiming scale rates anyway...

[Boo]

Personally it fell down well before then. I've never claimed for lunch as:-

1) I would be buying it regardless.
2) claiming for it as a company expense only saves me 20%. I can't face the paperwork or the investigation risk for the 60p-£1 it saves me.

I used to never claim for lunch but then I got a gig where I stayed away and it's obviously a fair expense under those circs so I did. Then I started commuting to the same place of work (about 90 minutes each way) and read the rules which seem pretty clear that you can claim under the 10 hours / 24 month rule.

So from now on I will claim just to ensure the cost goes on the correct (company) account rather than my own. But though I agree the sums are paltry and the £4 tax saving on spending £20pw on a sandwich for lunch are small, I do it on principle.

Boo

[mudskipper]

There is also an NLUK Bot account on here as well.

You should copyright yourself!

[northernladuk]

We have automated him.

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There is also an NLUK Bot account on here as well.

[mudskipper]

Think me need to clone NLUK, or find him some sockies

We have automated him.

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