Personal car used for work... Help

piperm87

My other half started a new job in November 2012 as a mobile carer. Doing the job involves her driving around to different houses to care after the elderly. She uses her own car with business insurance and puts all her own fuel in, the company DONT reimburse her for
any fuel she uses for work so I was hoping to get intouch with the hmrc to see if they'd offer anything.

Before doing so I wanted to ask on here to see if people are in a similar situation to her and how they get on with claiming any money back. Ie where did you write to. What records do you need to keep and how much you roughly get in a week/month

Regards

Matt

princessdon

She can claim 45p per mile from HMRC

marlot

princessdon wrote: »

She can claim 45p per mile from HMRC

I don't think this is quite right. I believe she can claim tax relief on 45p/mile (for the first 10,000 miles).

So if she pays 20% tax, she'll end up with 20% of the 45p.

gingergee

Princess is right, if the employer doesnt pay anything towards fuel, HMRC will. There is a long form you can get from the tax office, which includes other things like uniforms/footwear. If work pay anything (eg mine used to pay 35p), id then claim the difference from HMRC.
Or at least thats how it worked until last year as i used to claim for my fuel for nearly 10 years whilst working in Dom care.

Dunroamin

I'm with Marlot. HMRC give you tax relief, they don't actually pay you for the petrol.

https://www.hmrc.gov.uk/mileage/employee-factsheet.pdf

princessdon

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/p87.pdf


The way I have always understood it is this

Under the approved amount the tax relief is 100% (ie they get the full 45p off their tax code), over the approved amount it's tax relief . Ie they are both relief but the rate is set as "no tax paid".

Happy to be corrected if wrong.

piperm87

Ok... I'll get that printed off and send it off. Does she need to keep any records of mileage etc? As all she's kept is receipts of the petrol she's bought

Regards

Matt

closed

If hmrc (ie us) paid for 100% of everyones business mileage, no employer would bother.

It's tax relief, ie, you don't have to pay tax on a business expense.

Any employer who doesn't pay for such expenses is having the employee for a mug.

comeandgo

She would be advised to keep a diary of her journey's and mileage of each day. Receipts are not much help i'm afraid.

She will get back 20% of the total miles x 45p for the first 10,000 miles.

Dunroamin

princessdon wrote: »

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/p87.pdf


The way I have always understood it is this

Under the approved amount the tax relief is 100% (ie they get the full 45p off their tax code), over the approved amount it's tax relief . Ie they are both relief but the rate is set as "no tax paid".

Happy to be corrected if wrong.

I'd also be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong but why would any organisarion pay for travelling expenses if an employee could just get it paid by HMRC? Companies would be shelling out thousands for no reason.