Can I claim accommodation and hotels when working away as a tradesperson?

Can I claim accommodation and hotels when working away as a tradesperson? Yes, when a job needs a night away from home, the room and reasonable meals are allowable in 2026-27. You cannot claim a room where you live, or where your business is based. Yes. GOV.UK lists hotel rooms and meals on overnight business trips as allowable, and HMRC's manual says the hotel and reasonable overnight subsistence are deductible on a business trip that needs nights away from home. Yes, a reasonable amount. HMRC's manual says the reasonable cost of meals taken in conjunction with overnight accommodation is allowable. Your everyday lunch on a local site usually is not, unless your trade is itinerant. There is no room to claim, but HMRC's manual says the same treatment for overnight subsistence may be extended to traders who do not use hotels, giving the example of lorry drivers who sleep in their cabs. In our reading, reasonable meals on those nights can be claimed. Read the full answer, with every source, at rightotax.co.uk.