Flat-rate expense allowances
Flat rate expenses relief is for employees. It is a tax back for expenses certain employees are paying, for example for buying and laundering their own uniforms (like nurses, shop assistant, hotel and hospital staff, pilot, steward, physiotherapist, pharmacist, optician etc.) or buying tools (like carpenter, plumber, motor mechanic etc.) Included are: Shop Assistants, Hotel Porters, Waiters and Waitresses. Self-employed people can reduce their gross income with anything they are considering to be a business expense for example telephone, work clothes, tools, PC, home office, travel etc. That’s the advantage to be self-employed. Employees don’t have this “freedom” and that’s...
