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    Self Employed tax return

    Partner started being s/e last year. She delivers care services to private clients in the local area.

    So it's tax return time. Obviously I want to minimise tax, but not take the micky.

    The simplified expense regime seems suitable, given it avoids calculations of capital allowances too much etc. Though I am of course open to it if need be.

    I have identified, for the purposes of a sanity check:-

    She was active for 5 months of the last tax year (full time going forwards)

    Mileage, 3500 - 1575
    Medical parking permit - 60 year
    Other car parking - 100 year
    Subsistence 660 - here I am claiming 5/day as the single meal rate. The job is itinerant in nature. She normally leaves the house around 7 am and returns around 7pm. This pattern still seems to leave open the single meal rate.

    [For the car capital allowances, apportioning private/business seems to be only slightly better so way more hassle]

    Accountancy - just my travel costs related
    Insurance - as charged.

    Home office - 10/month based on 25-50 hours. [Total costs for property around 4k. Approx 1.5 hours / day but by the time it is scaled by rooms/ hours/24 etc it comes to about the same.

    Broadband 27/month - 50% of the cost
    stationary/ink etc - 10/month
    Mobile 40/month - 80% of contract cast [The everybody can have a mobile regime doesn't seem to apply when s/e]

    Any suggestions for things I may have forgotten, or shouldn't be claiming.

    #2
    Does she have to wear a uniform?
    Any subscriptions to professional bodies?

    Shouldn't ink etc be at cost rather than per month?

    Is her car insurance any more with business use added?
    Last edited by NCOTBAC; 14 July 2018, 14:16.

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      #3
      Uniform yes: cleaning allowance as per HMRC is claimed.

      Take the point on ink etc, claimed 70 for a couple of cartridges and paper and notepads. I am encouraging her about receipts.

      I **think** the minor addition to car insurance for business use becomes irrelevant since claiming at AMAPS rates rather than actual costs apportioned

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