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• # 72942
• Wed 13 Jul 2011 09:11 AM

Hi there. I have a sole trader client who has just given me his last months invoices/receipts etc to process.

A couple of receipts are for train travel to London to meet a customer which I have no trouble in posting to Sage, but he has also included a receipt for food for himself on the train. I told him he can`t put this through as a business expense but somebody has told him he can because he was on a business trip when he ate it.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

Steve
 

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• # 72943
• Wed 13 Jul 2011 09:24 AM

Hi Steve This is a complicated area as HMRC has very strict rules on what is / is not classed as subsistence and when it can / can not be claimed. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/managing/reclaiming/travel-subs.htm here is a HMRC guide relating to the claiming of VAT http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/relief-travel.htm and here is the tax guide. Kind regards Stuart

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• # 72964
• Wed 13 Jul 2011 08:23 PM

Thanks Stuart, found links very useful.

Steve

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