My husband is a self employed subcontracted roofer. I am assuming his main place of work would be the 'yard' as he doesn't have a single place that he works at longer than any other. He is away from the home/work for around 10-12 hours a day (often visiting 2 or 3 sites around the southeast of England per day) and buys breakfast and lunch whilst out.
I have found varied information regarding claiming the tax back on this. From what I can tell, it's either
A) he can claim the 2 meal allowance of £10 a day.
B) he can claim everything he has receipts for (basically £2000 of mainly McDonalds/subway/fuel station sandwiches - not exactly nutritious but convenient I suppose)
C) he can claim £5 a day breakfast allowance as he leaves before 6am
Or D) He's self employed and needs to eat regardless of being at work or home so can claim nothing.
I hope someone can clear this up. Thankyou.
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why won't you let the professionals do his tax return. I'm fairly sure that the £200-£250 will be reimbursed many times over by us doing the job?
You should be aiming to look at practitioners without 'gold plated plaques' on their door [my apologies if i offended anyone]. Besides, you don't necessary have to be located near your accountant. Nowadays the technology allows video calls, e-signatures, etc.
There are fair amount of accountants with experience, starting their own practice that would take CIS returns on. It's not exactly the most profitable work, if you know what i mean, especially with the AML checks and admin required for one-off £200 per year. We still do this - The way we see it - April/May work pays our rent for the year, some new equipment. But we are very efficient. It's the team work that allows us to charge less but still maintains certain amount of profits.
You DOH is a roofer - i'm sure his mates have some recommendations. If not then PM me and will sort him out good.