TurningGreen
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Hi
I am a self employed (sole trader) IT contractor. Last year I got an IT contract in Dublin (living in West) and travelled up Sunday and returned Thursday or Friday to west. My accountant now doing my returns and has informed me that I should not be claiming expenses for rent and food. Is he correct in this? If this is the case I will have spent a very hard year and a half working away from home and by my calculation be lucky to have made the minimum wage? How do other contractors survive if this is the case? Any thoughts much appreciated. Thanks
Who were you planning on claiming the expenses from? The customer? I dont think a sole trader can claim mileage etc.
Why can't you just work from home?I can't see how I can make a go of IT contracting since most of my contracts would be in Dublin and not the west and would tend to last for a year. May have to reluctantly look to relocating back to Dublin so that expenses/mileage is a minor cost rather than the major cost at the moment.
Why can't you just work from home?
IT contracting is ideally suited to this.
Well that's unfortunate for you.any client i have worked for have insisted i spend the majority of my working week on-site - it is only the out of hours support that is generally suitable to working off-site
Well that's unfortunate for you.
I've had better success. I suppose it depends on how forward-thinking the client is. Surely this commuting malarkey is old hat by now.
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