Tax relief for travel to temporary place of work

bexyboo1312

Hi
Last year my husband was asked by his employer if he was willing to undertake work at another factory, on a temporary basis. My husband agreed,as it meant he kept his shift pay (if he stayed at his permanent base he would have lost it)
He travelled 50 miles more than usual, by going to his temporary workplace for 7 months.
A friend of my fathers has said he can claim tax relief for his travel costs, and sumbit a P87.
The information on the net seems a bit unclear, can he claim even though he "agreed" to go to this temporary workplace at his own expense?
He has not had any expenses paid through work.
Thanks :beer:

withabix

I suspect the OP doesn't mean that he travelled an extra 50 miles in total over 7 months...

I assume he worked 5 days a week x 4 weeks per month x 50 miles per day x 7 months, so that is at least 7000 miles or £560 at Basic Rate.

So probably IS worth it.

Plus he may be entitled to the WHOLE journey mileage and not just the difference in mileage, unless he passed near to the usual place of work on the way to the temporary one.

Some 'tax specialist' you are!

dharm999

Bexyboo

Get your OH to ask at work about tax free travel and subsistence arrangements. These would mean he gets, in a round about way (no pun intended), the costs of travel and subsistence to his temporary workplace, refunded gross of tax.

HMRC set out what you can claim for subsistence, upto £15/day, IIRC, so potentially could be worth a few hundred pounds to you.

Ms_Chocaholic

Sorry to hijack the thread; but I just wanted to know whether the tax relief would apply to me. My employer moved our work base to another office and I travel an additional 30 miles per day. My employer pays me 46p per mile for 2 years after the move - the mileage is paid with my normal monthly salary - can I claim tax relief on this?

TM1976

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread; but I just wanted to know whether the tax relief would apply to me. My employer moved our work base to another office and I travel an additional 30 miles per day. My employer pays me 46p per mile for 2 years after the move - the mileage is paid with my normal monthly salary - can I claim tax relief on this?

The key thing is the workplace must be TEMPORARY. As this appears to be a change of the permanent workplace your employers treatment appears to be correct and all the mileage is taxable.

TM1976

bexyboo1312 wrote: »

Hi
Last year my husband was asked by his employer if he was willing to undertake work at another factory, on a temporary basis. My husband agreed,as it meant he kept his shift pay (if he stayed at his permanent base he would have lost it)
He travelled 50 miles more than usual, by going to his temporary workplace for 7 months.
A friend of my fathers has said he can claim tax relief for his travel costs, and sumbit a P87.
The information on the net seems a bit unclear, can he claim even though he "agreed" to go to this temporary workplace at his own expense?
He has not had any expenses paid through work.
Thanks :beer:

Yes. The key point is that he travels to a temporary place of work and not a permanent one. As long as his time their isn't expected to be more than 2 years he should be able to claim tax relief on the whole journey at 40p per mile for the first 10,000 miles and 25p thereafter (he would typically get 20% of this amount being the tax on the expense).

It doesn't matter that whether he agreed to do it as long as it was a temporary posting.

John_Pierpoint

This might tie in with the right to "try" an alternative job and then say "I don't like it give me the redundancy" ?

bexyboo1312

thanks everyone, he didn't pass his existing work to get to the new one, which means it was 110 mile round trip, 5 days a week for 7 months. Does he claim for he full 110 miles?
Thanks for your help, fingers crossed we can get the tax back!

TM1976

bexyboo1312 wrote: »

thanks everyone, he didn't pass his existing work to get to the new one, which means it was 110 mile round trip, 5 days a week for 7 months. Does he claim for he full 110 miles?
Thanks for your help, fingers crossed we can get the tax back!

Yes. It wouldn't necessary matter if he drove past his permanent workplace but in needs to be a different journey, he couldn't claim tax relief for travelling to a location just down the road from his current location.

bexyboo1312

brilliant, can't see why he isn't entitled. putting the form and letter in the post today. thanks everyone

withabix

RJDAssociates wrote: »

Yes he can. This is what HMRC say:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim32081.htm

Shame I didn't quote your previous answer before you replaced it with this one....:cool:

The point about passing your normal place of work is valid. For example, I will take a route down the M6 to demonstrate this.

If you live in Lancaster and your normal place of work is Preston and you were moved to a temporary place of work in Warrington, the journey down the M6 from Lancaster to Preston would br classed by HRMC as your normal journey and would not attract tax relief. The proportion of the journey (return) between Preston and Warrington would attract tax relief, as this is the part of the journey related to the temporary location.

If, conversely, your temporary work location was in Carlisle, then the WHOLE journey would count, as you are not travelling towards/past your permanent work location.

Odd, but that is how it works.

Also, your employer's contribution to the mileage must be deducted.