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How much to charge lodgers gf?

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  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    klizw wrote: »
    the Direct Gov website has information about tax and says that bills, insurances, building repairs etc are allowable expenses

    Not on rent a room AFAIK
  • klizw
    klizw Posts: 47 Forumite
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    If the bills cannot be excluded for tax calculations, I will just charge a rental amount and we can pay the bills as and when they come in and split them 4 ways
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    klizw wrote: »
    Spugzbunny, he very much has a home here, he doesn't just have his room, he has the run of the house as much as myself and my husband do


    If there are now 4 of you sitting down to watch TV and use the joint facilities how much will this impact your lives.

    OK she is around a bit anyway but does he go to hers sometimes?

    I think if they have 2 rooms then that is a good amount of space for them so worth more than a double in a regular shared house.
  • spugzbunny
    spugzbunny Posts: 1,235 Forumite
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    klizw wrote: »
    the Direct Gov website has information about tax and says that bills, insurances, building repairs etc are allowable expenses


    To be honest like all direct gov sites it is very confusing. It looks like under the rent a room scheme you can't charge for 'insurance, heating, lighting'. You can only charge rent and nothing else. The allowable costs section is headed with 'expenses you can deduct from letting income (unless it's under the rent-a-room scheme'. Very confusing that!

    I think you need further advice from direct gov as well as the issue regarding what is reasonable charges to them.

    i'm off now - good luck!
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  • getmore4less
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    klizw wrote: »
    If the bills cannot be excluded for tax calculations, I will just charge a rental amount and we can pay the bills as and when they come in and split them 4 ways

    Check the rent a room scheme rules carefully.
  • BitterAndTwisted
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    If you paid tax on the additional income from the lodger's g/f over and above the Revenue's "Rent-A-Room" threshold I think you're looking at less than a grant a year if you're a higher-band tax-payer. i.e. less than twenty quid a week.
  • spugzbunny
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    klizw wrote: »
    Spugzbunny, he very much has a home here, he doesn't just have his room, he has the run of the house as much as myself and my husband do

    no I'm sure he does. It was more a general query you know. If I were a lodger I wouldnt feel comfortable putting up pictures in the living room for example. I'm not commenting on your situation at all.
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  • klizw
    klizw Posts: 47 Forumite
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    getmore4less wrote: »
    Check the rent a room scheme rules carefully.

    I will pay for mine and my husbands usage of elec and gas and they will pay for their usage, its a consumable expense like food so we can each pay what we use
  • klizw
    klizw Posts: 47 Forumite
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    spugzbunny wrote: »
    no I'm sure he does. It was more a general query you know. If I were a lodger I wouldnt feel comfortable putting up pictures in the living room for example. I'm not commenting on your situation at all.

    He is very at home here, I don't have family pictures around the house and neither does he, he does have personal things in shared rooms though
  • spugzbunny
    spugzbunny Posts: 1,235 Forumite
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    klizw wrote: »
    I will pay for mine and my husbands usage of elec and gas and they will pay for their usage, its a consumable expense like food so we can each pay what we use


    thing is - I don't think you can. I think the rent-a-room scheme is saying you can ONLY charge rent. No consumable expenses regardless of whether they increase due to them being there. I agree it seems backwards but I'm pretty sure that is what it is saying.
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