As you’d imagine, HMRC has some detailed rules about what is and isn’t permitted when it comes to claiming tax relief. As a general rule, it’s important that anything you’re claiming as a business expense is used entirely for business - not partly for your own personal needs.

It’s essential that you keep accurate records of anything you’re claiming for, but it’s not necessary to keep a paper copy of your bills and receipts, as long as you have a digital copies. QuickBooks securely stores these for you and organises them into categories that make sense.

If you want to upload expenses to your QuickBooks account you have three options:

1. Take a picture of it on the mobile app for iOS or Android and follow the simple steps.
2. Forward an email attachment to the email your specially created address in QuickBooks.
3. Drag & drop a file into the receipts section.

Yes. QuickBooks Self Employed accounting software has been designed to support sole traders, self-employed workers and anyone working in the gig economy who needs to complete HMRC's Self Assessment tax return.

QuickBooks Self Employed lets you manage your expenses in the same way as QuickBooks Online, so you can lose the piles of paper receipts and have all your allowable expenses in order when it’s time to complete your tax return.

Most receipts process in an instant, but they can take up to 15 minutes.

Dozens of them. You can find the full list here. We’re consistently making more upgraded bank connections available to our customers and regularly announce the availability of new links, so watch this space.

Connecting your bank and credit cards to QuickBooks is another great way to save time on manual data entry and manage your expenses. Our machine learning makes reconciliation automatic - all you have to do is approve your transactions in a single click.

No, receipt and bill capture are both included as part of your QuickBooks subscription. We’ll organise them into categories ready for tax time, or you can create your own categories if you prefer. You can even run expense reports for your limited company to see where your day to day business costs are highest. And remember, if you use QuickBooks to stay on top of your expenses all year round, tax time will be a breeze.