Works Xmas parties - any shenanigans?

[Prizam]

Teddy Lop said:

Shnozz said:

Tim330 said:

Shnozz said:

Teddy Lop said:

I work for myself, can I just go out and get smashed/slap up meal and claim it as tax deductible?

Yep. Up to £150 per employee.

https://www.gov.uk/expenses-benefits-social-functi...

You can take one guest as well at £150.

Indeed. Amazingly my guest for Xmas parties is a mate of mine who happens to be sole director of his own business too. So two weekends for the two of us per winter celebrating Christmas. Marbella and Amsterdam were last years jaunts.

you're not stting me, I can just take the mrs for a meal plus drinks and chuck the receipt in the pile on my return and that's okay? Why has it taken me so long to learn of this.

Indeed! I am enlightened. Curry house for me and the missus friday it is then. £150 quid target each.

[geeks]

Never you mind said:

geeks said:

Never you mind said:

Tim330 said:

Never you mind said:

Haven't been to a works xmas do for years! Think this is the first time in many years I have been in a contract over December. Oh well, I'll have a xmas do on my own at the local seeing as I can claim £150 as tax deductible.

The £150 is an up to amount. You can't go for a pint and expense £150 (unfortunately)

Oh well, bag of cheese and onions and a pint of OBB for me then. That comes to a grand total of £2.75. God how sad is my life when my xmas do costs me that.

Where do you drink? That is really rather cheap for a pint and a bag of flakeys!

The pub! Sam Smiths pub in the village so the beer is cheap, think a pint of lager is £2.27. You can get a pint of mild of £1.34

You are Mark or Lard AICMFP

[Drew106]

Never you mind said:

Oh well, bag of cheese and onions and a pint of OBB for me then. That comes to a grand total of £2.75. God how sad is my life when my xmas do costs me that.

Where is your pub? 1995?

[bobtail4x4]

Sam Smiths beer is very cheap

I like the old brewery bitter

[Prizam]

I once undressed buffy at Madame Tussauds and surfed on a limo down the M4. Most of my takes really cannot be re-told.

This year I did the "team" x-mas lunch but skipped the main one. The big event consists mainly of pharmaceutical sales girls. They are bad enough sober. I have marriage and child commitments to attend too, so was in bed by 8.

I will, however, take HMRC up on their offer of a "free" Christmas party.

[Gary29]

I'd say about only 20% of these stories have any shred of truth in them.

[Vaud]

bobtail4x4 said:

Sam Smiths beer is very cheap

I like the old brewery bitter

It is cheap (I used to like it), but the owner is a sod by all (local) accounts...

Pubs sitting empty - won't allow unmarried couples to run them. Apparently allows landlords 23 months and then lets them go (to avoid paying them off)... and when the bridge collapsed in Tadcaster he wouldn't allow a temporary bridge to be put on his land. Despite being a major local employer and the subsequent damage to the towns economy.

Edited by Vaud on Tuesday 11th December 10:43

[smack]

Backtobasics said:

A Christmas party from some years ago I can talk about however that ended pretty badly. I worked in a fin serv firm and different departments rarely mixed, contact centre staff and administration staff were two such areas. No love lost between the two resulted in a few harsh words and the odd push on the hotel dance floor as the 5th pint of brave juice was sunk. I left at this point.

....

So after the 4th riot van turns up it all gets stopped, the following meetings and dismissals kept HR, Management and Union reps busy for just over a month.

It wasn't a company in Harrogate and back 7 or 8 years ago?

[simonrockman]

Never you mind said:

The pub! Sam Smiths pub in the village so the beer is cheap, think a pint of lager is £2.27. You can get a pint of mild of £1.34

Good grief, a pint of London Pride and a packet of crisps cost me nearly £6 in Hampstead.

[Shakermaker]

simonrockman said:

Good grief, a pint of London Pride and a packet of crisps cost me nearly £6 in Hampstead.

Pub crisps are getting expensive

[bobtail4x4]

Vaud said:

bobtail4x4 said:

Sam Smiths beer is very cheap

I like the old brewery bitter

It is cheap (I used to like it), but the owner is a sod by all (local) accounts...

Pubs sitting empty - won't allow unmarried couples to run them. Apparently allows landlords 23 months and then lets them go (to avoid paying them off)... and when the bridge collapsed in Tadcaster he wouldn't allow a temporary bridge to be put on his land. Despite being a major local employer and the subsequent damage to the towns economy.

Edited by Vaud on Tuesday 11th December 10:43

I know him, no music in his pubs etc, he was worried the temporary bridge would become a permanent footbridge.
He rents houses to old folk at a shilling a week.
Spends thousands on vanity projects in Tadcaster then rents them out for next to nothing,
New shop businesses get half rent for a few years to get established,

[jumare]

Tim330 said:

Never you mind said:

Haven't been to a works xmas do for years! Think this is the first time in many years I have been in a contract over December. Oh well, I'll have a xmas do on my own at the local seeing as I can claim £150 as tax deductible.

The £150 is an up to amount. You can't go for a pint and expense £150 (unfortunately)

and that's up to £150 that can be offset against tax so actually only 20 or 40% of that (unless I'm doing it wrong).

Can you really do this as a self-employed one man band Trading As non Ltd?

[anonymous-user]

A few years back, in the good old days when we had a party with free bar and hotel rooms, we had a married couple working in the office. On the night of the party they got separated so the chap called his wife to say he would stay in one of the rooms with the other lads. Only he didn't. He booked another room and spent the night with his girlfriend, who also worked with us. The chap then met up with his wife the next morning and off home they went. Wife then decided to do the washing and finds a hotel receipt in hubbies trouser pocket, for a different hotel. Monday morning in the office was entertaining to say the least

[ApOrbital]

Halmyre said:

ApOrbital said:

and a co-worker showing me how to fit a bottle of bud all the way in her foof

Proper Bud or that American rubbish?

Bud from the pub i did not question what one it was at the time.It did have a red label on and ended up in the taxi when we left plus the bottle.

[ApOrbital]

geeks said:

Smiler. said:

moneymakestheworldgoaround said:

ApOrbital said:

a co-worker showing me how to fit a bottle of bud all the way in her foof.

Wow.

Dilly dilly

^^ this didnt get enough recognition

[Mr-B]

jumare said:

Tim330 said:

Never you mind said:

Haven't been to a works xmas do for years! Think this is the first time in many years I have been in a contract over December. Oh well, I'll have a xmas do on my own at the local seeing as I can claim £150 as tax deductible.

The £150 is an up to amount. You can't go for a pint and expense £150 (unfortunately)

and that's up to £150 that can be offset against tax so actually only 20 or 40% of that (unless I'm doing it wrong).

Can you really do this as a self-employed one man band Trading As non Ltd?

Assuming you can get a receipt would hookers and/or blow be tax deductible?

[BrabusMog]

ApOrbital said:

Halmyre said:

ApOrbital said:

and a co-worker showing me how to fit a bottle of bud all the way in her foof

Proper Bud or that American rubbish?

Bud from the pub i did not question what one it was at the time.It did have a red label on and ended up in the taxi when we left plus the bottle.

I think he meant that Czech Budvar which has a gold foil covering the neck and bottle cap - I'd imagine that wouldn't be too smooth for what your colleague was doing!

[Vaud]

bobtail4x4 said:

I know him, no music in his pubs etc, he was worried the temporary bridge would become a permanent footbridge.
He rents houses to old folk at a shilling a week.
Spends thousands on vanity projects in Tadcaster then rents them out for next to nothing,
New shop businesses get half rent for a few years to get established,

I'm sure he does good stuff. He strikes me as a bit like Titus Salt, but maybe in need of an update in thinking for the wider good...

It hardly seems "right" to allow pubs to sit empty because the landlord isn't married. And yes, our local is/was Sam Smiths and can't find a landlord so it sits empty and the villager take their money elsewhere...

Anyway, I'm derailing this thread so I'll take my rant elsewhere

[Number_Six]

One I'll always remember was uneventful bar one of the very large office girls attempting to drink her weight in booze, making such a loud noise bringing it back up again in the ladie's toilets that everyone could hear through her from outside except the one lucky chap who I saw snogging her passionately ten minutes later.

Oh, and the one at the local pub where an extremely alcohol-sensitive colleague thought it would be rock'n'roll to jump up on the bar then stage-dive on to my boss who promptly clonked him and threw him outside to bleed and quietly moan to himself.

[otolith]

ApOrbital said:

Halmyre said:

ApOrbital said:

and a co-worker showing me how to fit a bottle of bud all the way in her foof

Proper Bud or that American rubbish?

Bud from the pub i did not question what one it was at the time.It did have a red label on and ended up in the taxi when we left plus the bottle.

?