Self Assessment Petrol Allowance Question

ashymark

Hi,

In the middle of doing the missus self assessment to get her petrol allowance back through hmrc as her employers didnt pay her a penny for travelling to and from her clients. She is a carer so has no fixed place of work.

Total mileage for the year was around 8800, haven't got exact figure with me but its at home on a spreadsheet.

Am I right in thinking that she is going to be due back around £800.

I got to this figure with (8800*0.45)=3960 and then working out 20% of 3960 coming to 792. That to me is £792 back from hmrc.

Have never had to do one of these before and before giving someone at the revenue a call just wanted to double check if anyone on here knew.

The story is that she was made redundant earlier in the year and then from December till now is on maternity leave. She didn't actually earn enough in 11/12 to pay any tax at all on her earnings and due to being on a w1/m1 code is due a tax rebate of £522 but I'm not 100% certain with how the refund will work out, will she get her tax refund or is the £792 from petrol supposed to be deducted from her tax that she paid in the year, question I'm going round the houses to ask is will she get the £522 tax rebate as well as the £792 or will she just get the £522. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance

Dazed_and_confused

If total taxable income in last TY (Apr 11 - Apr 12) is less than personal allowance then mileage claim will be irrelevant really, you will only get the £522 back as you get tax relief on the mileage but none has been paid (after taking into account the refund you would get anyway).
Might be better to try and persuade employer to pay something in future, even 10p/mile would be £880 on 8800 miles.