£50,270 per year then it goes up to 40%

Thanks I don’t want to pay 40% esp because I’m not going to be claiming expenses

it's only 40% on the amount above £50k, not the whole thing. Also, pension contributions are tax deductible. why wouldn't you claim expenses if you are going hit more than £50k?

From Gov UK

The tax-free allowance lets you receive up to £1,000 tax-free on your trading income. If you claim this allowance, you cannot claim expenses or other allowances.

It might be useful to some who just work for holiday money.

Thanks I didn’t realise that. Not so bad as I thought

Hi, I know I can claim dinner expenses on tour, as you can't cook in a hotel, but do you think I actually need a receipt, or if a bank statement says "Uber eats" then that's enough? Ive heard if transaction is visible and described on your bank statement it can serve as receipt. And Uber eats is pretty self explanatory if HMRC asks, so I never save receipt from it, but if I use it a lot maybe I should?
The rules for food expenses and receipts are so vague, I still don't get it 

just save the email confirmation from ubereats in a folder.

You say HMRC won't care what expenses you claim well i can think of at least 2 cases where they did care. Where the expenses was not in any way contacted to their job but they put it down thinking they would never get audited or looked at and it caused the woman a lot of hassle and she ended up owing more money from putting expenses not connected to her job and took far longer looking far back into her and she seemed a liability to them. So if you are saying its fine for me to put condoms and sex toys through my expenses for a job where i am not down as a actual prostitute then i don't think i would risk it thanks from other situations i have seen happen with HMRC. Obviously that is not stopping nobody else from doing that. We can all do as we like.

I won't comment further on the tax affairs of expenses as can see it's a touchy subject and my experience of HMRC is very different to some other people on here.

Above posts moved from unrelated thread.

I'll have one more go, although why I'm doing so when it's like trying to explain Nietzsche to a shower curtain I have no idea.

Nobody is saying that people should put through expenses not connected to their job - that's tax evasion. What is a fact is that ANY expense which was incurred directly in the course of you doing your job can be put through, regardless of what you've bought/paid for or what your job is.

So if a punter asked you to paint him green and this required you to buy some paint and a paintbrush, these would be completely legitimate business expenses and would not require you to be registered as an artist or a painter and decorator, because that would be insane. Equally if I decided to do a one hour outcall to Aberdeen which would cost me double what I'd earn, I can put the travel costs through. But if you go to a gig in another town and decided to put your hotel and travel costs through on the sly that's not OK, (even if you work from hotels and put these through regularly) because you didn't book the hotel for work.

I can't simplify it any more that that. What I will say is that constantly posting anecdotes about people who are not here rather than actual first hand experience is getting tiresome - if all these friends want to contribute their experiences they can register and do so themselves.