Courier's hotel expenses

Courier's hotel expenses

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A client is sole director of a company and runs a courier service.  He necessarily spends all week driving up and down the country, frequently Scotland and the West Country, to deliver goods.

He has significant hotel and subsistence expenses.  There is no doubt that he needs to stay overnight on frequent occasions because of the distance travelled from home.  Do these need to be declared on his P11D?  How much of the expense relating to meals, drinks, etc, would be acceptable to HMRC?

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By geoffmw
15th May 2011 13:49

Apply for a dispensation

The important thjing is for the company to have proper receipts for all the travel and subsistence expenditure.

All bookings should be made in the name of the company. Presumably there are company credit and debit cards.

Without a dispensation the claims are no problem provided the costs are reasonable (no large aslcohol bills for instance) but could mean unnecessary NI costs.

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