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ilm wrote:Having read the 'Response to the Consultation' does anyone else feel that it is flawed? The questions seem bias towards business, students and tourists and those engaged in the consultation process seem to represent tourists, students or the business sectors? It would appear just one respondant was represented in the category of sponsor!
Read the answers to the questions and it would appear the consesus was for costs to be competative and attractive. The aim was to produce a self financing immigration system so it is no surprise that settlement, not work or student based applications, have had to be increased by a large amount to subsidise other applications. Although respondants did not agree that citizenship should be priced according to value it clearly has been increased. Interesting to know what value they would have put on a British passport had the response been more favorable?
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As a point of interest has anyone else wondered at the logic behind the wording of Q2. 'Should prices reflect a range of factors, or only those that are of value to the migrant?' Read the Qualitive summary on page 19 and see if it makes any sense to you?
Thanks for the reply! Company accountant is looking into the details. My husband is here as a spouse and not on a WP but accountant seems to think that doesn't matter and ILR fee is a legitimate expense. Fingers crossed. Will let you know what the rules are when we get to the bottom of them.Marie B wrote:
My husband is self-employed and runs his own company - are visa fees tax deductable?
Actually, yes.
Any business can write up an agreement to cover the fees necessary to bring in a worker. It is similar to relocation costs, etc.
Look into it. You'll need to study up the details, but the business can write it off as a business expense.
John wrote: I have to say that I strongly disagree with that. I see no basis whatsoever for UK tax relief to be sought on any such fees.
John wrote:Vin123, this is not the place to conduct a detailed examination of the finer points of taxation law, but there is no doubt in my mind that the visa application fees fail the "wholly and exclusively" test, let alone the "wholly, exclusively and necessarily" test applied to employees as regards their P11D expense claims.
That is, a successful applicant for say ILR not only gets the right to continue to work for their employer, but also the right to live with their family, the ability to apply for Naturalisation (maybe after the passage of a further amount of time) etc etc.. So clearly the payments cannot be "wholly and exclusively" for the benefit of the business.
Sorry, yes you have got it wrong. And again this is not the place to discuss very technical taxation points.I know little about accounting expenses or taxation so please correct me if I got it wrong. From my understanding P11D lists only those expenses incurred for the company for an employee that could be deemed as beneficial.
You are saying that I got it wrong - agreed.John wrote: Sorry, yes you have got it wrong. And again this is not the place to discuss very technical taxation points.