Reply to: Cheeky expenses

[TCL]

Just this month I put through a £200 restraunt bill for me, the wife and two of ours friends. If push comes to shove I'll say we were discussing investement opportunites (which we did, very breifly, my friend is a pension fund manager)

[BoredBloke]

I'm putting through my recent trip to New York as I was there to spec out the place with a view to taking a long term contract at Bristol Myers Squibb - helps that I can get somebody to vouch for me there. Unfortunately I didn't like it so I won't be taking the contract.

[NetwkSupport]

car hire for my holiday in sicily

[Ardesco]

Works fine as a phone, people can use it to talk to me and I can use it to talk to them. What more do you need???

[TheFaQQer]

Why not as a phone expense......

Maybe HMRC would recognize that it's great as a gadget and carp as a phone and disallow it??

[Ardesco]

on as serious note, can i get the iphone as an mp3 expense?

Why not as a phone expense......

[css_jay99]

If you want an iPod touch, why don't you just get an iPhone?

on as serious note, can i get the iphone as an mp3 expense?

[Ruprect]

If you want an iPod touch, why don't you just get an iPhone?

[NotAllThere]

(sigh) now I see why HMRC doesn't like some of you people.

Answer: none, I am not a thief.

On the other hand, you are self-righteous. Well done!

[NotAllThere]

At one place, a new boy was summoned to the IT Directors office.

- What's this beer here?
- It was just the one, with my meal - I thought that'd be ok.
- Certainly not - we expect a much larger bar bill than that. You make the rest of us look bad. Don't do it again.

[Spacecadet]

When I was a permie, working at customer site and staying in hotels, we used to put vast quantities of booze through on expenses as "pudding".

When i worked as a permie we didn't even bother hiding the booze, just hand in the entire receipt:

Beer €5
Burger €10
Beer €5
Beer €5
Beer €5
Beer €5
Beer €5
Beer €5
Whisky €7
Whisky €7
Whisky €7

I was never once pulled up on expenses, even managed to get a case of duty free beers on the expense account once

Probably explains why they went bust

[Diver]

It's a carcinogen !! be careful .....


http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/co...and_Cancer.asp

Yes that report is very definitive isn't it

[Churchill]

I remember them. Home development PS kits? Came in a sexy black/dark grey colour as I recall.

Yup, I'm trying to get a couple of PS3's for R&D purposes - Cell processor, dontchaknow...

[OwlHoot]

Evening meal. What was very cheeky (and wrong, I wouldn't do it now - I was young and foolish ), was that there were six of us and we all put the whole bill through expenses. A net profit at the tax-payers expense.

When I was a permie, working at customer site and staying in hotels, we used to put vast quantities of booze through on expenses as "pudding".

Those must have been the most expensive, gold-leaf encrusted truffle-laden puddings ever

[zara_backdog]

MP4 player for my hubby's Xmas pressie last year - very good for downloading web-seminars for work purposes only you understand