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Self-Employed - Claiming Business Mileage?

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  • zygurat789
    zygurat789 Posts: 4,263 Forumite
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    If you are doing over 10,000 miles on business and using the car more than 50% in the business it would be easier to treat the vehicle as business and claim everything. The the mileage log provides a ratio of business to private mileage which is applied to the total expense to provide the private add back
    The only thing that is constant is change.
  • Thanks for the information.

    At the moment I'm doing less than 10000 miles.

    However, in future this may change and I will revert to the other method, should this happen for those tax years.

    If I were to do this, when claiming for a proportion of the travel cost that equate to business use, what can be claimed for. I know a few things have been mentioned:
    Fuel
    Insurance
    MOT
    Road Tax
    Vehicle breakdown cover/recovery (e.g. AA)?
    Cost of puchase of vehicle?
    Maintenance/wear and tear?
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