Is Feng Shui allowable?

Is Feng Shui allowable?

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I am looking at a client's year end computation and note they engaged a Feng Shui consultant during the year to assess their office space.

They are a graphic design company and I'm not sure if we can therefore argue this as an allowable CT deduction on the basis of creating the right environment to allow their designers creativity to flow?

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Ian Main

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By spike418
08th Sep 2005 08:34

Hmmmmmmmmmm
Yes but is it Capital or Revenue? Maybe even within the intangibles regime?

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By ACDWebb
09th Sep 2005 10:43

Roger
which is probably what coloured my knee jerk "surely not".

Thinking too much of the old Fosters ad.

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By sue.hill
09th Sep 2005 11:10

Oh you grey suited accountants you...
We don't all live in a pin striped world. Feng Shui is a completely valid concept FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN IT. (I personally wouldn't use it, but wouldn't question the concept, as I know it's worked for associates I've known in the past).

As one respondant has already mentioned, it's a consultancy situation, and I would treat as revenue expense. No question.

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By AnonymousUser
07th Sep 2005 23:18

he say yes
Esteemed opinion here following:

In the Eastern society foong shway is tous les importanto.
But beware the followings:
if it was just a director's office, pour exemple, then I would say nay, but as it was for the company as a whole, then it should be classified as office design expenditures.

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By ACDWebb
07th Sep 2005 19:58

Surely
not

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By NeilW
08th Sep 2005 09:47

Yes - probably
The only issues are whether the expense was incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business, and whether the expense is Revenue or Capital. The issue of whether it makes any sense commercially is thankfully not something the tax law gets involved with. Duality, yes, commerciality, no.

People engage consultants to tell them how to write their marketing letters and how to wave their arms properly in meetings, so I see no reason why a consultant to tell them how to arrange their chairs should be treated any differently.

Claim it.

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By AnonymousUser
08th Sep 2005 15:23

Thanks Neil ...
I have always wondered what Feng Shui is. Does this mean that "Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic" might have been something more than the pointless excercise that history has portrayed?!

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By User deleted
08th Sep 2005 16:18

My thoughts are:

that your client is completely batty.

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