accounts / expensies...can you claim these

[Rich Rule]

How often doe's the tax man come knocking?

 

Go on then mate claim away... Whilst your on you may as well try and get a few grand off your profit, claiming for the advice you get on arbtalk. Don't worry the taxman never knocks does he?

[roseyweb]

Contemplating putting new HD telle through, might use if for tree related presentations and watching Axe men on discovery

[csservices]

I know somebody who even used to ask for a reciept off Mcdonalds if we stopped for a coffee, he'd put tit through as entertaining clients

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

Only reason i am asking is that i have spent a fortune on weights, kettlebells, training book, supplements. etc

 

tree working can hurtyour back...so you can go to chiropractor and claim that as expense..my exp shows me that back strains etc are usually caused by over development of one area of body and under development of another.

 

So do weights, kettlebells etc is for keeping my body fit enough so i can work everyday! deadlifts for lower back and chinups for climbing. lol

[Andy Collins]

How often doe's the tax man come knocking?

 

They hit every self-employed business around here, in their words "everyone tries to get one over us, so we get everyone". I dont know many people they havent investigated at some point. Believe me, you are guilty until they have proven you innocent. If you have any doubts abut what to claim, use an accountant, and if you cant afford that, ring HMRC and ask them, better to ask than get caught out.

[Rupe]

Your body is not a tool for work. Chainsaws etc. are tools.

 

Otherwise everbodies body would be a tool for work, sittign at a desk required a body that can sit at a desk, Oh, and it needs to walk to the desk so it must be a tool of the job. Walking holiday must therefore ALL be tax deductable?

 

Your body is a tool for life, and weights are a hobby/leisure activity. Of course you can't claim the tax back off the weights you have bought!

 

Medical stuff like chiros etc. can be tax deductable if you can justify it. Weights would help prevent injuries but no form of preventative medicine or treatment is tax deductabel as far as I know. Common sense does need to prevail with tax returns etc. and you would have a chance of justifying that one.

 

Maybe if you could prove that you never use any muscles for anything other than work, then you might be ok.

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

So if you can't climb trees due to being over weight...so you goto gym to build up fitness so be able to perform you job...a gym membership doesn't class as expense??

 

you can claim some money everyday towards your lunch..around 2.50 if i'm right. so why wuldn'tyou be be able to claim weights ??

[Rupe]

So if you can't climb trees due to being over weight...

 

Its not the taxmans problem if you are not fit enough for the work you do, that is your "personal" responsibility. His response would be get another job.

 

If you were employed, and not fit enough to get up a tree you would soon be unemployed.

 

Tree work is for fit people, I agree with that, but that means it suits people, like you, who go out and get weights and get fit, you still can''t claim for it.

 

Like I say some common sense is required.

 

BTW if you want the weights to be tax deductable then pay for them with cash!

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

ok..what abut climbing trees wrecks your knees and back...so you buy weights etc to do exercises to strenghten you knees and back.

 

job causes physical problems - find it hard to work due to this - so buy equipment that is scientifically proven to sort problems = business expenense!

[Rupe]

If you can justify it, and it sounds like you can, then go for it. I'm not saying what you should or shouldn't do.

 

Weights are not "equipment that is scientifically proven to sort problems"

 

It seems like you want someone to say "yes its fine go ahead" but none of us can do that, its up to the tax man. But I would stick by my first post and say no chance.

 

Otherwise I might as well put all my mountain biking gear on expenses, and hill walking stuff as well. And Beer, cos it helps me un wind so must be a business expense.

 

Do you not see the rediculousness of what your saying?

 

 

I've thought about a way that the weights could be tax deductable actually. If they were located in your work premises and for use by you and your employees while at work, even after hours (but your paying them overtime), then I think it would be acceptable.

 

If they are located at home for your use only then I would say no, they are then a leisure/hobby activity for you. same as bikes, golf clubs, wahtever you choose to do in your spare time.