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SE Tax help please

I am registered as SE and have been SE previously, so the normal tax stuff I'm pretty okay with. But this time I'm also working as a volunteer. I've just been filling out my expenses forms and it dawned on me that I might have to run these expenses through the books too.

If I do how do I go about it. It's only for petrol at 40p a mile, so do I just invoice myself then put the payment through when I receive my expenses?
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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,531 Forumite
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    I'm not sure I've understood this, so I'll say what I think is the case.

    If you're claiming mileage for work done as a volunteer, that's got absolutely diddly squat to do with your self employment. You claim it, and put it in the bank. If you have a separate bank account for your self employment, your volunteer mileage goes into your personal account. If you only have one bank account, you need to be able to clearly identify what is personal and what is not.

    Now, if your self employment and your volunteering are at the same place, it could be more complicated although I stand by what I said above, as long as the two can be clearly separated.
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  • fengirl_2
    fengirl_2 Posts: 4,530 Forumite
    As Sue says, the volunteering expenses are personal income and should not be declared. Keep a paper trail of where these expenses have come from in case you are investigated.
    £705,000 raised by client groups in the past 18 mths :beer:
  • Fiver29
    Fiver29 Posts: 18,620 Forumite
    Thanks both, I wasn't sure whether the expenses from the volunteer work would be classed as income.
    Moving onto a better place...Ciao :wave:
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,531 Forumite
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    Fiver29 wrote: »
    Thanks both, I wasn't sure whether the expenses from the volunteer work would be classed as income.
    Not if it's a straight reimbursement. If the organisation pays a lunch allowance over the odds, or pays for something which isn't strictly necessary, then it all becomes more complicated, but if your situation is simple, keep it that way ...

    Says the woman who's just realised some of our staff expenses probably need to go onto the P11D ... :eek:
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  • fengirl_2
    fengirl_2 Posts: 4,530 Forumite
    Ohhh, Sue, you WILL be popular!
    £705,000 raised by client groups in the past 18 mths :beer:
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 46,531 Forumite
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    fengirl wrote: »
    Ohhh, Sue, you WILL be popular!
    Nah, I shall make the manager write the email. ;)

    It's DH who is popular. He's the one who asked the question, which made me ask the question.
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