Expenses and being self-employed as a Webcam Model

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A word of warning about what other people claim in expenses. HMRC, because of staff cutbacks etc., don't check as much as they used to ten years ago. The fact that somebody has included an expense which hasn't been questioned by HMRC doesn't mean it's allowable for tax purposes.

I claimed for a client's guard dog once and it was allowed as part of a tax office inquiry. The justification was that there were often large amounts of money in the house, it was well known that the client would be paid in cash and therefore a burglary was more likely and finally the dog was a Rottweiler which the client offered to bring to the tax office!