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As far as the room in the home is concerned you can claim one of three ways
1) £3 per week for each week that you traded in the tax year
2) The room method - where you add up all the habitable rooms in your home (excluding kitchen and bathroom) and then allow 1/how ever many habitable rooms against the heating and lighting bills - so if you spent £3500 during the year and had 6 habitable rooms you could claim 1/6th of the bills.
However the full 1/6th can only be claimed if you use this room all the time - so it may need to be time apportioned if you use this less than all the time
3) The third method works similar to the room method - but this is the sq footage method - you measure the whole are of the house and allow the proportion of sq footage to that one room against the total - and apply this against the heating and lighting bills
If you claim a proportion of the mortgage interest - aside that you may alert the mortgage company that you are trading from home - you also then have to consider than when you come to sell your home - that capital gains have to be considered
Council tax - again you run the risk of having business rates being applied - as the council again are going to view that you are trading from home - so you can only claim business rates from HMRC
You can claim a proportion of the household insurance - or if you have business equipment insured separately - then you can claim this
And obviously you can claim annual investment allowance of any office furniture you have purchased for your business
Thanks
Sam
Thanks for your question
As far as the room in the home is concerned you can claim one of three ways
1) £3 per week for each week that you traded in the tax year
2) The room method - where you add up all the habitable rooms in your home (excluding kitchen and bathroom) and then allow 1/how ever many habitable rooms against the heating and lighting bills - so if you spent £3500 during the year and had 6 habitable rooms you could claim 1/6th of the bills.
However the full 1/6th can only be claimed if you use this room all the time - so it may need to be time apportioned if you use this less than all the time
3) The third method works similar to the room method - but this is the sq footage method - you measure the whole are of the house and allow the proportion of sq footage to that one room against the total - and apply this against the heating and lighting bills
If you claim a proportion of the mortgage interest - aside that you may alert the mortgage company that you are trading from home - you also then have to consider than when you come to sell your home - that capital gains have to be considered
Council tax - again you run the risk of having business rates being applied - as the council again are going to view that you are trading from home - so you can only claim business rates from HMRC
You can claim a proportion of the household insurance - or if you have business equipment insured separately - then you can claim this
And obviously you can claim annual investment allowance of any office furniture you have purchased for your business
Thanks
Sam
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