{"id":1691,"date":"2017-01-26T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T09:18:54","slug":"hmrc-publishes-list-silliest-self-assessment-expense-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/hmrc-publishes-list-silliest-self-assessment-expense-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC publishes list of silliest self-assessment expense claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A list of some of the silliest expense claims featured in recent self-assessment tax returns has been published by HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Revenue has published the list as a warning for taxpayers to take their self-assessment returns seriously and ensure that they are submitted by 31 January for the 2015\/16 tax year.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, some of the most ludicrous claims in recent returns have included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Underwear \u2018for personal use\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Pet food for a Shih Tzu \u2018guard dog\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Flights to the Caribbean.<\/li>\n<li>Armani jeans as \u2018protective clothing\u2019 for a painter and decorator.<\/li>\n<li>International flights for dental treatment \u2018ahead of important business meetings\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Luxury watches as \u2018Christmas gifts for staff\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>A garden shed \u2018for private use\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Regular \u2018Friday night bonding sessions\u2019 which ran into \u2018thousands of pounds\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ruth Owen, HMRC\u2019s customer services director general, said: \u201cYear after year we receive a number of ludicrous expense claims, ranging from international holiday flights to expensive designer clothing, which we would never uphold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHMRC will only accept those claims which are genuine, such as legitimate travel expenses or the cost of tools for the job,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC has confirmed that all of the expense claims issued above were rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of some of the silliest expense claims featured in recent self-assessment tax returns has been published by HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}