Generally speaking, glasses cannot be claimed as an allowable business expense. HM Revenue & Customs rules state that they will only allow expenses that are deemed to be wholly and exclusively for the business and necessarily incurred in the performance of your duties.owever, if a prescription is required for glasses that are solely to be used for business purposes and evidence can be provided that they are not used elsewhere, then the purchase of glasses can be justified as an allowable business expense. The Expert was Mark Denton, an accountant at inniAccounts.
That could make defending the nation and paying the government's bills even tougher to do in the future. [PHOTOS: The 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War] The Iraq and Afghanistan wars will together cost $4 to $6 trillion, according a new study from Harvard University's Kennedy School.
U.S. attack on Baghdad, 2003 / Getty. Last week, the Pentagon told you the costs of the war on terror had eclipsed $1 trillion. Wednesday morning, a panel of academics experienced in war accounting says thatâs only a down payment â and that its real, total cost is around $5 trillion. Five trillion dollars: thatâs $16,000 per American; $64,000 for a family of four. The final tally of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will reach at least $3.7 trillion, and could go as high as $4.4 trillion, according to a study done by Brown Universityâs Watson Institute for International Studies.