Hypno's cheaper than therapy debt diary.

redsquirrel80

Wow that was quick! I waited nearly a year to get back an overpayment once!! :eek:

Am not jealous of Venice or £1k wins either.. honest

Nah.. woohoos all round! (and a little :j for me cos I've just posted off me cheques for this month and debt is now under £9k! :j )

taxi73

Seems like we are all having a good day for a change..well done on the tax rebate ..that was really quick and well done sqirrel on being less than 9k....I like it when we all have a good day...xx

duchy

Gosh I'm inspired to sort out my tax mess now
Trying to find out where to look for figures to claim for things like heating, light-sole use of a room to work in that don't read like they've swallowed a dictionary

mizmir

yeah! Woo hoos all round. Great to have lots of positives - long may it continue :beer:

hypno06

Duchy, I was advised to do it like this:

If you have 8 rooms in your house (not including bathrooms, hall etc - just main rooms) and you use one of them for business, then allow 1/8 of your gas, electric, water, council tax, landline etc as a business cost.

If you use 2 rooms (and can justify this) then use 1/4 of your bills as a business cost, etc

So, I have 7 rooms, so I simply allocated 1/7 of my bills to the business.

Hope that helps!

Surfbabe

Afternoon all - I'm being very good and doing my accounts - DS just rang and he got on ok at his interview for lifeguarding job in Swansea. Not working tonight as ears and throat still hurt.

hypno06

Ooh, good luck to DS for his interview.

Sorry to read that you are STILL not feeling well. Have you seen your GP or pharmacist about it - it seems to have been going on FOREVER!

Seaxwyn

Hi all. So glad to read of all the good luck all around - waiting eagerly for mine now.

Hypno, Duchy, sorry to put a dampener but Hypno's advice above only applies if you use the room EXCLUSIVELY for business - and don't even store anything personal in it. If (like me) you work in a room that at other times is used by the family, you need to divide costs again, using the proportion of time that you spend in that room.

It is well explained in this thread: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=420104

Surfbabe

Right - I've done my accounts - I'm now off to upstairs computer to update DD acounts !!!!

duchy

Seaxwyn wrote: »

Hi all. So glad to read of all the good luck all around - waiting eagerly for mine now.

Hypno, Duchy, sorry to put a dampener but Hypno's advice above only applies if you use the room EXCLUSIVELY for business - and don't even store anything personal in it. If (like me) you work in a room that at other times is used by the family, you need to divide costs again, using the proportion of time that you spend in that room.

It is well explained in this thread: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=420104

You mean ironing storage doesn't count ???