I have a client that has a Tassimo coffee machine in the office. Coffee is drunk by the 3 staff and clients that they have visiting them. They also buy mineral water, biscuits etc. Would this be classed as Entertaining? And should I be claiming the VAT back? If not what do you put it under?
if available to all employees then its a legitimate business expense and exempt.
refreshments to clients would be entertaining and therein lies a problem in that if you are only giving a client coffee that was purchased for an employee whilst strictly it should be treated differently is it really worth making a song and dance about.
Think that I would go down the lines of making myself two coffee's and the swine of a client just happened to drink one of them (can't leave anything on a coaster in front of them for two mins without them making assumptions!).
Not of course to be confused with going off site for coffee which would always be entertaining.
The one that I would seperate out would be buscuits which would be snack rather then a beverage.
I'm sure that I read somwhere about there being special rules for facilitating a meeting but for the life of me cannot remember where and it seems that a search using buscuits isn't finding it (and cookies means something completely different to computers!)
That should get the ball rolling, I'll visit it again tomorrow when back hopfully I'm a bit more awake.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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