Use of personally owned equipment whilst employed (photographer)... Tax rebate?

[newmomma]

Just that really.
My friend is emplpyed but uses/purchases a lot of her own equipment and I'm sure that she should be able to reclaim some of the costs/tax related to this - can anyone help me clarify further.

I've tried looking on the HMRC website but its useless.

I think use of her own equipment is her choice. Consumables which are essential however should be reclaimable.

Not her choice - just accepted as the norm.
They don't provide anything - surely a photographer with no camera would be useless?

So - she needs to do a tax return for the reclaimable consumables?

Well I'd say it's her choice to use it or not, in an employment situation. is there any element of freelance in this?

She needs to claim full refund for expenditure soely on work related sundries under the companies 'expenses' or 'petty cash' system, surely?

My ex was a photographer and you can write off capital expenditure every year for equipment (he was self-employed though). She won't be able to write it all off, but it's similar to laptops and phones. I would strongly recommend she gets a decent accountant as it's complicated.

However if she needs it for her employment, surely her employer should be providing it?