As more and more people choose to work from home the question of how you can reclaim any home office expenses is frequently asked.
Vat home office expenses. Submitted by james holt on fri 26 01 2018 11 26 it might seem like an odd question to ask your accountant but it s becoming more and more common for contractors to enquire about the financial and tax consequences of building a home office in their garden. He keeps the required records to show how he calculates his claim. There are many benefits of a home office in regards to value added tax and several things you can reclaim through hmrc. Can my limited company pay for my garden office.
But if the space is used partly as an office and partly as a video game room for instance then such division must be accounted for in apportioning the expenses. Some topics i ll cover are vat expenses capital gains tax and insurance. 17 for example if the office space accounts for 25 of the employee s home s total surface area and the employee uses the office space 80 of the time for employment activities the. Complete the calculation of work space in the home expenses portion of form t777 statement of employment expenses.
Enter on line 22900 the allowable amount of your employment expenses from the total expenses line of form t777. Linus uses his home office including the desk and chair for both work and private purposes. For example if your home has 10 rooms and you use one of the designated bedrooms as an office you can claim 1 10 of the vat suffered on gas electricity etc for your house although we don t usually recommend you use a room 100 of the time for business as you could get caught by capital gains tax you can see more about this here. Half of your mobile phone calls are private.
It is important to note that your company must be vat registered in order to reclaim vat. Enter the lower amount of line 24 or 25 of form t777 at line 9945. The general hmrc rule for claiming tax relief on business expenses is that you can only reclaim costs that have been wholly and exclusively incurred in connection with your trade. When completing his tax return linus usually claims his home office expenses using the fixed rate method.
Therefore leigh ann s home office deduction for the tax year 10 x r120 000 r36 000 r36 000 r5 000 r19 700. You work from home and your office takes up 20 of the floor. Completing your tax return. The square meterage of her home office 20m2 in relation to her house 200m2 is 20 200 which is 10.
The normal answer is that the company can recover the vat on the equipment they own it and it is for business use but the vat on any building work and decorations cannot be recovered because on the face of it it is specifically blocked. You can reclaim 50 of the vat on the purchase price and the service plan. He works out that his private use is 10.