I've been looking at the percentage i can claim but i fall in between two %ages so not sure which one would be most suitable?

i worked 18hours a week so

do i claim for 17% @ 20hours a week or
12 % @ 15hours a week

any help would be great

thanks

sorry just worked it out - heard my brain go "ping"

Happy to hear you've sorted it! Here's the link for anyone who needs it... :D

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/bimmanual/bim52751.htm

Okay, are you ready? Here's my next daft question!

I'm adding up my hours worked per week at the moment but I am adding up precisely ie. using the sign in and sign out times, should I be using these or the contract hours (which would be easier!!!)?

I.e. contract hours 12.00 to 3.00 (3 hours or 180 mins)
sign in/sign out 11.59 to 2.58 (2 hours 59 mins or 179 mins)


Thank you!

I'd definately use contract times. Might be wrong though. :D

My opinion... life's too short to worry about the odd minute and it'll be much easier to add up if you do it by the contracted times!

Having said that, I am not for one moment suggesting your accounts should not be as accurate as possible and if you were consistently 10 / 15 or more minutes out, I would look at it again. :D

I'd definately use contract times. Might be wrong though. :D

I'd agree with marie but don't know if that's right :rolleyes:

miffy xx

Oh, why didn't I do this as I was going along! Ha ha!

Glad I've only been working part-time or I'd go nuts!

Thank you - I'm going to do it accurately - well, as accurately as my maths allows!

Right, all my precise hours are now added up -didn't take that long really thank goodness and I know it's all exact!

Now I'm confused! Two questions!

First one - for quite a few weeks I did less than 10 hours work so that means I have no per centage to claim I take it?

Second one - I paid £35 p/month for gas so say for w/c 3rd September I worked 15 hours (12%) I have calculated it like this but I think it must be wrong!


£35 divided by 30 days in Sept x 7 days in a week x 12% ????

Is that how you would do it or have I gone accounting barmy?

I am so sorry to be so dim! No-one else has had to ask these stupid questions!!!!!


Sorry, sorry, sorry!

Right, all my precise hours are now added up -didn't take that long really thank goodness and I know it's all exact!

Now I'm confused! Two questions!

First one - for quite a few weeks I did less than 10 hours work so that means I have no per centage to claim I take it?

Second one - I paid £35 p/month for gas so say for w/c 3rd September I worked 15 hours (12%) I have calculated it like this but I think it must be wrong!


£35 divided by 30 days in Sept x 7 days in a week x 12% ????

Is that how you would do it or have I gone accounting barmy?





I am so sorry to be so dim! No-one else has had to ask these stupid questions!!!!!


Sorry, sorry, sorry!

you are not dim hun.

you would just work out 12% of £35 and enter that figure once a month.

thats what i do anyway.

but i might not be the best person to advise you, im sending mine off to accountant tomorrow!!

I'm really, really confused.

I'm going now to watch Supernatural and look at this with fresh eyes tomorrow!

Thanks Lou.

The hours you work tell you the % you can claim... once you've got the % figure you can forget about the hours...

So you know your % is 12%... and your total = £35...

Like Lou says, 12% of £35 = £4.20

Hope that helps! :D

You say it so much better than I could! Lol

I have been trying to put that into words and have just seen you have answered

Probably because I am pretty hopeless at maths!

It has to be explained to me really well and be really obvious to me or I can't do it! :laughing:

I think I'm getting more and more confused!

In September I only worked two weeks, one works out at 20% and the other at 21% and I paid £35 for the month for gas.

So, I have done this:

£35 divide by 30 days of Sept x 7 days for a week x 20% and
£35 divide by 30 days of Sept x 7 days for a week x 21%

then added the total together which comes to £1.63 for first week and £1.72 for the second week = £2.83

Is that right for September?

That's wrong isn't it?

Your confusing me now and im sat here questioning myself!

Do you use the ncma books?I do so i work it out weekly.

Firstly i got my monthly/ yearly utility bills and worked out how much it costs for each bill per week then i look how many contracted hours i have worked that week and work out the relevant % of the weekly utility amount.

I wrote down the cost of each utility bill in a book with the figures worked out for yearly, monthly, weekly and wrote a reminder of the % for different hours worked. So now every fri i can quickly just look at my notes and work out the figures. It is usually thje same as work same hours most of the time.

Does this help? Or am I doing it all terribly wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!! x

I think, if I have read it right, I do it that way too. :thumbsup:

Firstly i got my monthly/ yearly utility bills and worked out how much it costs for each bill per week then i look how many contracted hours i have worked that week and work out the relevant % of the weekly utility amount.

I wrote down the cost of each utility bill in a book with the figures worked out for yearly, monthly, weekly and wrote a reminder of the % for different hours worked. So now every fri i can quickly just look at my notes and work out the figures. It is usually thje same as work same hours most of the time.
x

That sounds right to me as well! :D

Thank you!

I'm still confused so I'm just going to stick with my weird method and to hell with it! It's only a matter of a few pounds so I can't be too wrong!

Hours Worked
10
15
20
25
30
35
40+

Heating & lighting
8%
12%
17%
21%
25%
29%
33%

Water rates
2%
4%
5%
6%
7%
9%
10%

Council tax & housing rent
2%
4%
5%
6%
7%
9%
10%

Wear & tear
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%

Hope this will help you, sorry i can't seem to get the Figures together side by side. If you work say 20 hours aweek and need to take a % off gas look at Heating & Lighting it's 17% off.

John.

Thanks John, that must have taken ages to type up!

Had them on my PC for awhile (took me more time trying to post it on here lol so i thought i'll post it, it was done in spreed sheet but couldn't load it up as the forum don't except this file. Hope it as helped.

John.

i have used lis'a acoounts package from ebay and for £12 it does it all for you once entred hours and i loved it :) no personal relationship just deceided to buy one to make my life easier :p well worth it