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olibear18

I have done my partners tax return for the last 3 years he is SE HGV Driver who is attached to an agency who finds him the work, it has occured to us that he may be paying more tax than he needs to but i would like to clarify
1. Can he claim mileage/petrol for his journey's to/from his jobs?
2. What other home usage would he be able to claim for ie computer/phone etc?

Any help would be appreciated

therivierakid

I have a similar but related question:

I've had my own tutoring business for the last 12 months and I've done several hundred miles of driving going to and from students' homes in that time. Stupidly I haven't kept any receipts from these journeys. Can I still claim the fuel as a business expense? (BTW I didn't do a tax return for FY 07-08 - HMRC said I didn't need to as my revenue was so small at the time).

mrsmyagi

Hi olibear

1. Yes he can as long as he is working for different clients on different jobs
2. You can make a claim for home usage as long as it is "reasonable" - so make an estimate of the dedicated space in your house used for working and apportion your home costs (light and heat pretty much)


Hi the rivierakid

Yes you can claim for this but you will need to keep a record of the mileage. You can claim at 40p a mile for the first 10,000 then 25p after that.

olibear18

Thanks for the info. He generally switches between 2 or 3 different companies, would that still qualify?

lucid2008

Do you mean he works for 2-3 different agencies ? He is classed as self-employed but the agencies send him to haulage companies where he uses their vehicles and their fuel card ?

lucid2008

I was in a similiar position last year and i was told there is no way i could claim for mileage from home to place of work.I know of drivers who have used an 'umbrella company' to claim more tax relief.

BoGoF

olibear18 wrote: »

I have done my partners tax return for the last 3 years he is SE HGV Driver who is attached to an agency who finds him the work, it has occured to us that he may be paying more tax than he needs to but i would like to clarify
1. Can he claim mileage/petrol for his journey's to/from his jobs?
2. What other home usage would he be able to claim for ie computer/phone etc?

Any help would be appreciated

I cannot see that he could claim mileage expenses. A recent tax case regarding agency workers was found in favour of HMRC and that agency employees could not claim the cost of travel to/from each job as each job was deemed to be a permanent workplace and as such was ordinary commuting.

Regarding your 2nd point I doubt that a HGV driver would qualify for the working from home expenses - the substantive duties of employment must be carried out at home to qualify. And by the way HMRC will (should) no longer accept apportioning bills to justify a working from home claim.

therivierakid

Sorry about the thread hijack...

Some of my students have come via an agency. I'm not employed by the agency - it's the students (or rather their parents) that pay me and I pay a commission to the agency for each session delivered.

Does this still mean I can claim tax relief on the mileage done?

HelzBelz

therivierakid wrote: »

I have a similar but related question:

I've had my own tutoring business for the last 12 months and I've done several hundred miles of driving going to and from students' homes in that time. Stupidly I haven't kept any receipts from these journeys. Can I still claim the fuel as a business expense? (BTW I didn't do a tax return for FY 07-08 - HMRC said I didn't need to as my revenue was so small at the time).

If you work on the system of claiming back 40p/mile for the 1st 10,000 miles you can do it using something like multimaps route planner, work out the distance to each of the places you went and then log it from your records for each time you went...

...I do it this way as my car's an import and has the distance in km not miles and was told it would be Ok, but I always calculate it as 'shortest route' not 'quickest route'