Jobs where you use your own car

stevep123

Hi there...just joined this site, and registered an account...I would like some advice about a mileage issue, whilst I am using my own vehicle for work purposes.
Whilst I understand the HMRC recommended rate, currently 45p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, and then 25p....As an Outreach Support Worker, I and my team colleagues travel to various locations(the homes of our Service Users'),and receive the mileage allowance of 45p per mile-not a problem. The conundrum seems to come when we look at the distances that each member of staff would have to travel in order to get to the building in which our office is located....My firm have now decreed that as an Outreach worker, we should deduct the distance that would be travelled to our office, from the first/last client visit we make, even if in a totally different direction. This is not a great problem for me, as I only live just over 3 miles from my office, but I have colleagues, who are 10-15 miles and further away. As I think you may well begin to seem this causes potential unfairness in how various staff are affected in relation to where they may live from our office,in the mileage that they cannot claim? What is also perplexing, and is still being looked at, is the fact that another colleague has raised that there is a definition about where a fixed place of work will be, with regard to the amount of time spent at the location-I think it was something like 60% of time or more would be classed as a permanent place, and therefore an expectation to travel at start/end of working day,to from said place, is done at the individuals choice of place to work,hence not claimable(i.e we all have to travel to/from work). As we do not spend anywhere near 60% plus of work time at a fixed location(more like 20-25%), is there some guidance/rulings that can be referred to?Particularly as the job is largely community based?

Bobl

if your contract states the company office as your place of work you are not entitled to claim to/from it. Therefore if you travel to other sites at the start/finish of the day then you should deduct that from any mileage claimed. It is not your employers or HMRC's fault that people live further away.