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.
Since 2003, the United States has spent $818 billion to fund the war in Iraq -- and counting. The initial fight in Iraq was meant to cost no more than $60 billion, a small fraction of the cost to date. Congress allocated $5.1 billion in 2015 for U.S. Operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). This counter represtents costs incurred since June 2014.