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September 8, 2022
September 8, 2022
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What expenses can you claim on CIS?

Mo Halabi
Mo Halabi
As a contractor or subcontractor working on CIS, you’ll have various running costs, that can be deducted from your taxable profit, if eligible.
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As a contractor or subcontractor working on CIS, you’ll have various running costs depending on the work you do. You can deduct these costs from your taxable profit as long as they’re eligible expenses. This means things that you paid out of pocket that you need for work.

So if you earn £50,000 and you claim £9,000 in expenses, you’d only be taxed on £41,000 for the year.

Note that if your expenses are under £1,000, you can claim the tax-free trading allowance, meaning that you don’t need to keep your receipts, but you won’t be entitled to claim any expenses.

Being a construction worker, you might expense things like:

Be aware that if you use the same vehicle for your own personal use then you’ll need to factor this in when any expenses are claimed. If you work out that you use your vehicle 40% of the time for personal use, then you would need to reduce any relevant vehicle running expenses by 40%. The same happens if you use your home as an office base, you should calculate which portion of your bills or phone usage can be counted as running expenses.

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