BIM45500 | Specific deductions: insurance: contents

Whether insurance premiums are deductible from trading profits depends on what is insured and whether the insurance has been taken out for the purposes of the trade.

In most situations, if the insurance premiums are allowable deductions from trading profits, the receipts from the policy are taxable as trading income. Where no deduction is allowed, often the receipts are not taxable as revenue.

The cost of fee protection insurance is not allowable when the risks covered include the cost of negotiating additional tax liabilities resulting from careless or deliberate inaccuracies, see BIM46452.

Guidance on the tax treatment of insurance receipts is at BIM40750 onwards.

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