Business Mileage - what am I entitled to?

jennifernil

I have always put it in box 1.32, and shown the calculation for it in 1.40 (additional information).

If you have received more than you were allowed then it goes in box 1.15, or it did last year.

This year I only had to do a "short tax return" and the box numbers are different on it.

robert_harper_2000

I do a few miles a day... by Bike; could I claim per mile for cycling to work? not a massive amount, I am a director if that makes a differenecE?

Andy_L

To & from your permanent place of work - No same as you can't with a car.

robert_harper_2000

Sorry what do you mean? Could I claim for cycling or not?

Thank you!
Rob

ctm_2

robert_harper_2000 wrote:

Sorry what do you mean? Could I claim for cycling or not?

Thank you!
Rob

No, you can't. Just as someone driving can't claim for driving to and from work.

Hoddie_2

You can claim tax relief on 25p per mile for every business journey you use your cycle for. As others have said, you cannot claim for journeys to and from work (ordinary commuting).

oldwiring

Hoddie LOng long ago I recall that there was a full accounting sxheme as well as the Fixed Profit scheme you mention? Exists still? Isn't there some complication concerning triangular(?) journeys; those where you travel direct from home to a site other than your work base?

Hoddie_2

You can no longer claim capital allowances instead of mileage allowance. This was discontinued years ago. You can claim for commuiting to a temporary place of work (is that what you mean?) but I've never actually used this so it might be best for someone else to go through the conditions (if any). This would cover going direct to a client first thing in a morning.

I suspect you'd only be able to claim for the difference between the normal and temporary journeys, and that there's bound to be a definition of what constitutes temporary.

Gadget_2

Hi,
I was coming on here to start a new thread and then seen this one and decided to post here as it is allready on topic.

My wife uses her own car for travelling between clients in her job as a private care worker, until recently she was paid 13 p/mile by her company in fuel benifet but now she is to claim it back from the Tax office.

I have been looking into this and from what I can gather is that she can claim back the Tax on 40 p/mile for the first 10,000 miles (she does no where near this amount) so at 22% this works out at just under 9 p/mile.

She has questioned her boss on this and was told that it works out at 22p/mile and she is better off claiming the Tax back on the full amount than them paying her the fuel benefit and that her Tax code should have changed to allow for this.

She has claimed back the Tax on 27 (40 - 13) pence for the previous years that she has worked in this job.

So my questions are

1. Is my calculation of 9 p/mile correct.

2. Is she better off claiming back the Tax on 40 p/mile or getting paid 13p/mile and claiming back Tax on 27 p/mile as she has been doing?

3. If her Tax code should be adjusted what is this allowance called?

4. Is there any legal obligation on companies paying for fuel benefit?

I think that she was better off before the change but I would like to know if I am correct as she is having a meeting tomorrow night with her colleagues and boss and will bring this point up if she and her colleagues are getting a raw deal.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Gadget.

Hoddie_2

The official rate is 40p/mile for the first 10,000 and 25p/mile thereafter. You can claim tax relief on the difference of what the company pays (if anything) and the official rate. If the company paid nothing, you'd be able to claim 22% of 40p/mile.

If the company paid 13p/mile, you could claim 22% of 27p/mile. This would be the better way as you'd get 19p/mile (as opposed to 9p/mile if the company paid nothing).

3. The adjustment would simply be expenses (EXP).

4. No.