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Tom H P


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Dear fellow bookkeepers,

A question that I should know the answer to, however I have to be 100% sure about everything!

Please could anyone tell me:- a self employed landscape gardener travels to different places to do his work, and sometimes goes to the co-op to buy a sandwich at lunch. Can he put this through his accounts as a business expense or is this classified as drawings? I just wondered as he's not at his 'place of work', but out on a business trip (of sort) to a client's garden?

Just to throw a cheeky one in there too - when employees submit expense forms for food, is it classified just as a standard expense in the books straight from the invoice?

Thanking you, as always...

Tom.

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Being a landscape gardner, s/he won't have a 'normal place of work' therefore my take on it would be that wherever s/he happened to be would be classed as 'normal place of work' and lunch should be paid for from own pocket. Also the mileage from job to co-op cannot be classed as business miles.

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Thanks guys, that's what I thought, but just thought I'd check.

Thanks,

Tom.

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