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Business Entertainment: The Deductions Most Businesses Overlook

Shared from Tax Insider: Business Entertainment: The Deductions Most Businesses Overlook
By Jennifer Adams, August 2026

Jennifer Adams considers when business entertainment is allowable and circumstances in which it is not. 

HMRC has stated that expenditure on business entertainment cannot be claimed as a deduction against profits (and is therefore also non-VAT-recoverable), even if a genuine business expense.  

However, that is not entirely correct – there are exceptions. 

What is ‘entertaining’? 

The rules are designed to

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