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Can I claim for my food and drink expenses?

September 23, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

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Running your own small business is tough at the best of times but trying to fathom what you can and cannot claim for your business costs and expenses can seem like an impossible task. Food and drink costs are no exception and the rules around claiming these costs as a sole trader can seem complicated […]

Filed Under: Personal taxation, Self assessment, Self employment, Working from home Tagged With: Allowable expenses, Claiming food and drink, self assessment, Self-employment, sole trader, Tax returns

Making your charitable donations go further

September 16, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

There has been a spate of charitable giving in my household recently. My girls have just come back from a 10km run, supporting a charity close to our hearts. There have been trips to Naomi House with clothes that no longer fit and toys they’ve outgrown. On the global scale, we’ve seen disaster appeals for the earthquake […]

Filed Under: Personal taxation, Self assessment, Self employment Tagged With: Personal tax, self assessment, Self-employment, tax relief charitable donations

Hobby business or self-employed? Why it’s important to understand the difference

April 25, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

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You’ve been employed or you’re working part-time. Either way you’ve had that niggling inclination to re-invent yourself, to indulge your passion in doing something creative or have a go at doing something completely new. You start selling on Etsy, take a few portrait photographs for friends, design some jewellery – you ‘re loving being able […]

Filed Under: Self assessment, Self employment, Starting Up, Working from home Tagged With: hobby business, mumpreneurs, self assessment, self employed, sole traders, solopreneurs, starting up a business

Will sole traders still need to complete a tax return?

March 20, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

Is the end of the tax return?

If you’ve seen the headlines this week you will have noted the numerous press articles on “death of the tax return”.  You might have started celebrating or you might been left wondering what it all means for you as a sole trader running a small business. I have to say that I was a little […]

Filed Under: Accounting software, Bookkeeping and accounting, Self assessment, Self employment Tagged With: budget 2015, death of the tax return, self assessment, sole traders tax return

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