Parking charges NOT fines

pooch

Newwashingmachine wrote: »

Is that true? ...

No I made it up...:cool:

What's extreme? Having to pay tax on income? Yeah, very extreme. That and death - they say they are the 2 certainties in life don't they?

patman99

By the way, if the car park was free, then you owe nothing.
I would suggest looking at the motoring forum on here for proper advice.

One thing I used to do when parking outside a customers house was to cover my number plates with cardboard as CEOs cannot legally touch them to move them in order to read your number plate.

Mistral001

patman99 wrote: »

By the way, if the car park was free, then you owe nothing.
I would suggest looking at the motoring forum on here for proper advice.

One thing I used to do when parking outside a customers house was to cover my number plates with cardboard as CEOs cannot legally touch them to move them in order to read your number plate.

I have never been to the motoring forum. After reading the above post, I now know why.

londonTiger

zygurat789 wrote: »

Motor expenses.

i post parking and congestion chrge as travel expenses.

Pyxis

I never realised you could claim parking charges against tax! Oh well, far too late now! (The amounts involved weren't huge).

Aquamania

londonTiger wrote: »

i post parking and congestion chrge as travel expenses.

Pyxis wrote: »

I never realised you could claim parking charges against tax! Oh well, far too late now! (The amounts involved weren't huge).

It says on both the short & long versions of the self employmment parts of the return (SA103S & SA103S), that if your annual turnover was below £79,000 you may just put your total expenses in the total expenses box - which is a bit strange since if your annual turnover was not below £79,000 you should not be using the short version anyway

The notes to the long version are quite clear, I would have thought, on this:

Box - 20 [Car, van and travel expenses]
Allowable expense - Car and van insurance, repairs, servicing, fuel (if you use the business mileage rate under the simplified expenses rules, all these expenses are included in the flat rate), parking, hire charges, vehicle licence fees, motoring organisation membership; train, bus, air and taxi fares; hotel room costs and meals on overnight business trips.

Box - 35
Disallowable expense - Non-business motoring costs (private use proportions); fines; costs of buying vehicles; lease rental expenses for cars with CO2 emissions over 130g/km if purchased after 5 April 2013 (160g/km if purchased between 6 April 2009 and 5 April 2013) (15% of the amount paid); travel costs between home and business; other meals..

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/354297/sa103f-notes.pdf
(my highlighting)