To back up Julian & Phillip - this is totally normal and the IRD provides advice on how to calculate the expenses you can claim while operating a business from home.
http://www.ird.govt.nz/business-income-tax/expenses/homebus-exp/ Perhaps a good link for the wiki. Cheers, Hamish On Nov 26, 9:45 am, Julian Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because I work from home, petrol and rent are irrelevant. IRD > > wouldn't let me even if I tried to include rent as a business > > expense. > > If you have a company (and frankly why wouldn't you?) and the registered > business address is your home address, then rent and other associated > expenses are absolutely a legitimate cost of doing business. > > You measure up and document what percentage of your house is occupied by > the business and it pays the appropriate share of rent, power etc. This > is the way we've been doing it for a couple of years under instructions > from the accountant. > > Cheers, > > Julian. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
