Just a quick question back a few months ago I brought my son a new laptop as his old 2nd hand one gave up the ghost. His old laptop I use to use for one client who I have got Sage instants V10 on my current laptop, but because mine is Vista I have to print all the reports etc from my sons laptop as can't print them off mine. Hope I am making sense! This particular client is only an annual one, so should I claim a small proportion of the cost of my sons laptop or not claim any at all?
The inv is made out to my Soletrader name and I paid for it on a credit card. Not really sure whether to claim it or not. His Laptop is Windows 7 and it allows me to print all reports even though it is an old SAge instants. I also have QB and other Sage programmes that I could put on there if mine was to ever break and use his in the interim period if mine had to be repaired or if I had to go and buy a new one. So you could say that his is kind of my spare one?
Also lastly this might have a bearing on peoples' answers I am looking at getting a spare laptop in the next couple of months as mine is now 3 years old and has a few hiccups occasionally, probably cause it always on!
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Ps I have Sage instants V12 on my laptop as well and that one prints fine from Vista, its just the old V10 that doesn't like Vista for printing.
Many thanks
-- Edited by Amanda on Friday 13th of January 2012 10:22:09 PM
That reminds me of the Scalextric that my dad bought for my brother and i for Christmas one year that we didn't get to play with, |It even came with my dads favourite cars funnily enough lol.
Oh Amanda i didn't mean to imply you were upto anything naughty, your story just reminded me of what adults are like (mainly men) with childrens gadgets and toys. Like Steve said, i would treat the laptop as an asset and let your son have use of it, call it a perk of the job after all you probably could only afford to buy it because you had a customer who pays well but needs their reports doing on said laptop before they will release any payment to you. Now that sounds like a catch 22 situation. Understand your honesty though but i wouldn't be worried about the laptop, if it was a top of the range coffee grinder then maybe.
