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Tea and coffee home office
stphnstevey
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As I am a Ltd, I have read that it is perfectly exceptable for my company to provide refreshments (eg tea and coffee) to my employees - anyone use this? Do you need to keep receipts?
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Of course this is acceptable. You would need to keep receipts - presumably it would be paid from petty cash.£705,000 raised by client groups in the past 18 mths :beer:0
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It's amazing what you can legitimately claim as a small business working from home. However need to be careful with insurance and council as if they deem your home a commercial premise you get hit by higher insurance and rates!0
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Don't forget you are not claiming anything - you are making a ddeduction in your accounts for business expenses. It does not matter where the business is based - the rules are still the same - all expenditure relating to the business must be shown in the accounts. It's your business and you decide that is necessary expenditure.£705,000 raised by client groups in the past 18 mths :beer:0
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I'm so glad the OP brought this up, it's something I thought of a while ago and forgot to ask.
I don't employ anybody at home, but I do have the occasional visitor who I have to make a cuppa for.
Can I claim for the odd box of teabags/coffee/sugar/pint of milk when it's only myself? If I was working for somebody else my employer would no doubt provide these!Make £2026 in 2026
Prolific £177.46, TCB £10.90, Everup £27.79, Roadkill £1.17
Total £217.32 10.7%Make £2025 in 2025 Total £2241.23/£2025 110.7%
Prolific £1062.50, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £492.05, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £70, Shopmium £53.06, Everup £106.08, Zopa CB £30, Misc survey £10
Make £2024 in 2024 Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
You are not claiming anything - you are including a deduction in your accounts for business expenses. Business entertaining is not allowable for tax purposes, although I am sure this could be hidden in 'sundries'! Feeding yourself is also not allowable for tax purposes as we all have to eat and drink!£705,000 raised by client groups in the past 18 mths :beer:0
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Tried googling more but couldn't find anything - although I know the last company I worked for provided free tea and coffee to it's employees.0
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Just to add to fengirl's comment .... remember, you are BUYING the tea/coffee in the first place. Let's say that you spend £10 on tea/coffee. That's £10 you now don't have.Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac
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Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »Just to add to fengirl's comment .... remember, you are BUYING the tea/coffee in the first place. Let's say that you spend £10 on tea/coffee. That's £10 you now don't have.
What?
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