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Thanks for your question

You can claim £3 a week for heating and lighting (even if you have a rooms et aside for business - the room method may not being about much more from the heating and lighting bills, unless you work all the time in this trade) and a % of the broadband costs.
To work out the % broadband costs you can claim - you need to determine what % of the time the service is used for business and for private.

Did you buy a laptop especially for this job, or was or an old one? Let me know what you paid for it, when it was purchased, and the business % of use.

Do you incur any other costs through this work, admin, stationary, telephone, travel, do you use a printer and ink cartridges, ????
I would not imagine you would incur much else - as your overheads are going to be very low, in the same way that working on Just Answer is.

However - I will stress that these costs may only reduce your tax by a small amount, as the first bill due on 31/01/2011 is the tax and Class 4 National Insurance due plus the 1st payment on account and the payment due on 31/07/2011 is the second payment on account, and these payment on accounts set you up to be paying tax in advance of the next tax bill that becomes due 31/01/2012.


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Sam Hi

Thanks for your question

You can claim £3 a week for heating and lighting (even if you have a rooms et aside for business - the room method may not being about much more from the heating and lighting bills, unless you work all the time in this trade) and a % of the broadband costs.
To work out the % broadband costs you can claim - you need to determine what % of the time the service is used for business and for private.

Did you buy a laptop especially for this job, or was or an old one? Let me know what you paid for it, when it was purchased, and the business % of use.

Do you incur any other costs through this work, admin, stationary, telephone, travel, do you use a printer and ink cartridges, ????
I would not imagine you would incur much else - as your overheads are going to be very low, in the same way that working on Just Answer is.

However - I will stress that these costs may only reduce your tax by a small amount, as the first bill due on 31/01/2011 is the tax and Class 4 National Insurance due plus the 1st payment on account and the payment due on 31/07/2011 is the second payment on account, and these payment on accounts set you up to be paying tax in advance of the next tax bill that becomes due 31/01/2012.


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Sam