UK: Can anyone help with Self Assessment allowable expenses such as Council tax, rent etc.

[Mackers123]

Hi, I can't find any easy to read advice on this and wonder if any of you can help.
My other half uses one of our rooms predominately as an office but only small usage. How do we work out what we can claim on rent, utilities, council tax etc.

Thanks

anyone? :-)

He needs to call HMRC's self assessment helpline. They will transfer him to a technical advisor who will advise him on the expenses he can claim for being self employed.

Take a look here: www.gov.uk/expenses-if-youre-self-employed

"Example
You have 4 rooms in your home, one of which you use only as an office.

Your electricity bill for the year is £400. Assuming all the rooms in your home use equal amounts of electricity, you can claim £100 as allowable expenses (£400 divided by 4).

If you worked only one day a week from home, you could claim £14.29 as allowable expenses (£100 divided by 7)."

@Badbadbunny

"Example You have 4 rooms in your home, one of which you use only as an office.

Your electricity bill for the year is £400. Assuming all the rooms in your home use equal amounts of electricity, you can claim £100 as allowable expenses (£400 divided by 4).

If you worked only one day a week from home, you could claim £14.29 as allowable expenses (£100 divided by 7)."

Thank you. I have read that number of rooms are all bedrooms plus living areas (bathrooms & kitchens not included), is this correct? We have a conservatory, so not sure if that's included...

If the conservatory is actually used as a room rather than a storeroom, then yes, include it. You'd also include a "living" kitchen i.e. one in which you ate or watched TV etc as opposed to kitchen that had nowhere to eat etc. You can "tailor" the general apportionment idea to whatever your home situation where there's anything other than your bog-standard typical home. HMRC accept any "reasonable" method of apportioning the total costs by the floor space and time.