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    Question about expenses

    Hi,

    Need some help, sorry this question may have been posed many times before but I am not clear.

    I’m new to contracting and have just set up a limited company (am director and am employee) and started as a worker providing IT Consultancy Services.

    I have a client for 6 months, and I will be working with them 100 miles away from home. On a 5 day week basis. I’m outside of IR35, this has been checked.

    My accountant is saying I can’t offset my travel expenses against my revenue so I would reduce my corporation tax bill. Is this really right? She is not a contractor specialist accountant.

    They are saying I either get a P11d value and tax implication or I have to pay my expenses personally and claim back through dividend (so would have already paid corporation tax).

    I always thought justifiable and appropriate travel expenses to a temporary work location were possible to offset against profit, have I been wrong?

    #2
    Your accountant is wrong - you can claim these expenses from your company. You’d be impacted by the 24 month rule however if t came to that given you’re there five days a week.

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      #3
      Firstly I'd point your accountant at threads such as these and ask her to explain herself in detail why she thinks you can't.

      Contractor Expenses: Meal Allowances

      or tell her to google it and see what she comes up with.

      Secondly...

      She is not a contractor specialist accountant.
      Based on the quote and this thread I'd go get a contractor specialist pronto...
      Last edited by Contractor UK; 12 October 2018, 21:35.
      'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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        #4
        And you're not an employee, you're a salaried officer of the company. Keep that distinction clear.
        Blog? What blog...?

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          #5
          Fire them.

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            #6
            Get a better accountant.

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              #7
              I concur with the above. The accountant is wrong.

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                #8
                Thank you...further question

                Hi all, thank for your help. Much appreciated.

                I challenged the accountant and she has come back with the following say I still don’t get relief. Does this sound right?

                The 24 month rule relates to temporary workplaces (EIM32075 & EIM32080). Although, I appreciate, it may seem that London can be treated as a temporary workplace, however, as Jack The Dogs Consultancy Services Limited is a Personal Service Company (PSC), one also needs to consider the “Employment Intermediaries” guidance (EIM32135), Section 339A ITEPA 2003, that was introduced on 6 April 2016, where it confirms, “…that each engagement undertaken by a worker who personally provides their services through an employment intermediary will be considered a separate employment for the purposes of travel and subsistence. This will mean that generally no relief will be given for home-to-work travel costs and associated subsistence…” for the employee.

                On this basis I will get no relief and I don’t agree. Other workers as contractors in my current contract (all through agencies on a similar basis) are able to offset, but I am not. Has she set me up incorrectly as a personal service organisation perhaps?

                I need a new accountant who specialises in contractors, can anyone reccomend please?

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                  #9
                  Thank you...can you recommend at all?

                  Originally posted by TheCyclingProgrammer View Post
                  Get a better accountant.
                  Can you recommend any? Ta

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                    #10
                    Help

                    Originally posted by simes View Post
                    I concur with the above. The accountant is wrong.
                    Any recommendations?

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