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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on November 17, 2016, 09:14:57 am

Title: Uniforms and workwear
Post by: AuRavelling79 on November 17, 2016, 09:14:57 am
I understand the lovely tax people let you claim for uniforms and dedicated workwear but not something that could arguably be used for general wear as well.

So if I go out and buy a quality waterproof coat that is not job specific (North Face/ Paramo etc) and get a company to stitch on a discreet company name or logo can I claim the whole item as a business expense?

Or would you claim it anyway?
Title: Re: Uniforms and workwear
Post by: Soupy on November 17, 2016, 09:16:31 am
Branded clothing has to be a business expense surely?
Title: Re: Uniforms and workwear
Post by: Dave Willis on November 17, 2016, 09:28:50 am
I claim it anyway. My boots don't have a logo. I have no company logo'd clothing at all.
Title: Re: Uniforms and workwear
Post by: Soupy on November 17, 2016, 09:31:04 am
I claim it anyway. My boots don't have a logo. I have no company logo'd clothing at all.

Boots are safety gear.
Title: Re: Uniforms and workwear
Post by: nathankaye on November 17, 2016, 10:16:27 am
I think they say you can claim it as marketing/advertising.

I think the whole process is nust to rob you and supposedly legal for them to do so  ::)roll

So work uniforms they say, you need to clothes to wear regardless. So not sure if any work wear for cleaning windows is a green light, other than advertising costs if your company name is on them.

What i dont understand is how politicians can claim wallpapering their homes as an expense and we cant claim clothes  ???

Ild like to go through books of the taxman and/or politicians
Title: Re: Uniforms and workwear
Post by: SeanK on November 17, 2016, 10:40:48 am
There is a basic allowance for work clothes even if PAYE which will include the cost of cleaning, I remember a mate
getting a tax rebate because the company he worked for supplied his work clothes and claimed the allowance meaning he
didn't get it, but he was having to wash them.