Umbrella Advice needed please

[Contreras]

You can claim for food only if you are working long days (i.e. > 12 hours) or having unfeasibly early starts or staying away during the week. Otherwise the working assumption is you'd have to eat anyway, so how can it be a business expense?

Because the HMRC guidelines say so. If it's associated with valid business travel and it costs you more to eat than it would normally then you may claim the full price of the meal (or the agreed rate as in this case if there is dispensation from HMRC).

We've had this discussion before (several times I think) so I don't understand why you keep saying that. Maybe repeating it enough will make it true? Next up will be that it only saves 20% so why bother.

[malvolio]

Because the HMRC guidelines say so. If it's associated with valid business travel and it costs you more to eat than it would normally then you may claim the full price of the meal (or the agreed rate as in this case if there is dispensation from HMRC).

We've had this discussion before (several times I think) so I don't understand why you keep saying that. Maybe repeating it enough will make it true? Next up will be that it only saves 20% so why bother.

"Valid business travel" agreed. I'm getting confused between lunch allowance and standard subsistence again.

However, 20% of £6 a day for a three month contract comes out to £78 max. It would cost me more than that to do the paperwork. There comes a point where scratching around for every last penny you can drag out of the tax system against what is already a very healthy income gets to be simply too much effort. YMMV

[Vipz]

If it is your intention (this is HMRC guidance on the matter) to work on more than one assignment whilst in the employment of the umbrella company then, by virtue of the over-arching contract that you will be working under, your workplaces will be viewed as temporary and therefore you will have the entitlement to travel expenses.

Thanks Lisa,

What if I have the intention but then i get offered a permanent job and decide to leave the umbrella?

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Thanks Lisa,

What if I have the intention but then i get offered a permanent job and decide to leave the umbrella?

Then at that point you would notify the umbrella and they should stop allowing the expenses