Deleted - found answer elsewhere.

GreenFields

Deleted - found answer elsewhere.

Wayne_O_Mac

Don't delete questions, if you'd left it up and had it answered it could have been helpful to another user.

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I just wondered if someone could advise me about this please. I submit a very simple tax return for myself every year as I also have a full-time job, it's really just a few items - no capital allowances or anything. I am a book-keeper in my day job and used to preparing end-of-year accounts (including prepayments and accruals) for the company accountant so I know how they work.

My question is does the same accruals principle arise when you submit expenses on your tax return or do you have to submit expenses for which you have a receipt for that tax year - regardless of whether the expense relates to the following year or the previous year? I know that there are different rules for various expenses submitted on a tax return (capital allowances rather than depreciation etc) so just wondered if this was one of these cases.

Thanks in advance for any help.

GreenFields

Wayne_O_Mac wrote: »

Don't delete questions, if you'd left it up and had it answered it could have been helpful to another user.

You aren't a moderator so why are you posting back something I clearly wanted deleted? Whether you think it would benefit others or not it wasn't up to you to post back something that wasn't your post to begin with.

DCFC79

GreenFields wrote: »

You aren't a moderator so why are you posting back something I clearly wanted deleted? Whether you think it would benefit others or not it wasn't up to you to post back something that wasn't your post to begin with.

The post that Wayne has posted is on the internet anyway, someone else might have posted it if Wayne hadn't.

agrinnall

To be fair to the OP in this instance the text was deleted before anyone had answered (and indeed, nobody has since offered any answer) so it's not the same as deleting text when the thread is already under way.

I'd be inclined to ask a forum guide to delete the thread entirely.

le_loup

GreenFields wrote: »

You aren't a moderator so why are you posting back something I clearly wanted deleted? Whether you think it would benefit others or not it wasn't up to you to post back something that wasn't your post to begin with.

If I may say that shows an attitude of taking (you asked for an answer) but not giving (you deleted when you got an answer).

The best approach is to ask, and if you find an answer elsewhere to post that answer to help others.

pavane

GreenFields wrote: »

Deleted - found answer elsewhere.

GreenFields wrote: »

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I just wondered if someone could advise me about this please. I submit a very simple tax return for myself every year as I also have a full-time job, it's really just a few items - no capital allowances or anything. I am a book-keeper in my day job and used to preparing end-of-year accounts (including prepayments and accruals) for the company accountant so I know how they work.

My question is does the same accruals principle arise when you submit expenses on your tax return or do you have to submit expenses for which you have a receipt for that tax year - regardless of whether the expense relates to the following year or the previous year? I know that there are different rules for various expenses submitted on a tax return (capital allowances rather than depreciation etc) so just wondered if this was one of these cases.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I hate the "deleted, found the answer not going to tell you what/where because it might help others" attitude. HATE IT.

McKneff

Why did you actually feel the need to delete it anyway. I could understand it if the whole thread was deleted but .....


You could have used the time that it took you to delete by posting up the helpful other answer you got.

McKneff

Wayne O Mac, I have sent you a pm.