Basically if an expense in the course of your work ie to work = expense to reduce tax liability.

Hi All.

Thank you for so much information. I've spent a while reading through all this. Those who offer incalls and out calls (though I think this is an obvious and I'm over thinking it) can you record mileage to the place you are working from and to out calls as well?

I've just set up my "new account" and ordered my tax relief book as well.

I plan to use my secondary for all the purchases etc, deposits ideally I want to set up a savings account to keep my pot for class 2, 4 & tax (aim for higher just incase) and then transfer a weekly or monthly amount does this sound rational?

Perfect but in theory if you do both you can claim an incall call expense and outcall fuel. Mind is boggled after a shocking nights sleep. In good news I've already started planning how much I have to save for the tax man!

If you are a council housing tenant and therefore the council is your landlord, yes you do need their permission, and no they will not give it to you - they will most likely evict you I would imagine.

Working from home (as many office based employees did during lockdowns) is practically and legally very different from running your own business from home. The former is usually allowed and you don't need your landlord's permission. The latter (running a business from home) is almost always forbidden by your tenancy agreement and doing so will result in an injunction/eviction.

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 introduced the option of having a 'home business tenancy', basically a different type of tenancy agreement to an assured short hold tenancy, which permits tenants to run a business from home with the business type specified and agreed in the contract.

I don't know anyone who has ever had or even considered one of these but trust me if you asked for one for prostituting from home the best response you could hope for is the landlord laughing in your face.

Bottom line is, get a different accountant.

Oh I see. In that case I'm assuming she was on about business rates? Most of the time you do not need to pay business rates for working from home, but there are some exceptions. One of them is 'you sell goods or services to people who visit your property' which obviously would cover sex work.

Ridiculous suggestion though, obviously sex workers don't register with the council with this, not because we don't want to pay our way but because society often doesn't accept our work and it would cause us many problems.

Your accountant may be technically right but still a completely idiotic suggestion imo.

Best of luck