UK Allowable Expenses Guide 2026/27

Why this one

Most lists of allowable expenses are a list of categories, which is exactly the information you already had. This one answers the questions people actually ask: can I claim my car, my kitchen table, my coffee with a client, the laptop I also watch films on, the course I took, the clothes I wear to work. The answers are yes, sometimes, no and it depends — and the reasons matter, because the reasons let you work out the next one yourself. Inside: every HMRC category with what is in, what is out and the borderline case people get wrong; simplified expenses against actual costs with the arithmetic done both ways; capital allowances; and an A to Z of nearly sixty common items.

What you get

• A guide in 17 chapters, as a PDF
• The rule everything else comes from
• The categories, one by one
• Vehicles, which is where most of the money is
• Working from home
• Simplified expenses against actual costs, in general
• Equipment: expense or capital allowance
• Clothing: the rule people most often get wrong
• Food and drink
• Training: the rule that changed
• The questions people actually ask
• A full expense schedule, and what it is worth
• The £1,000 trading allowance, and when to use it
• The mistakes that cost the most
• The A to Z table
• The expenses year, month by month
• What to do when you are not sure
• The one-page checklist

Need more than one? This is also in the UK Self Employed Complete Tax Bundle 2026/27 (£30.99) — the same files at a lower price than buying them one by one.

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