Reclaim car mileage from HMRC

agrinnall

Zukkini wrote: »

Technically this is not my permanent place of work. I am contracted from my company to an airline company.

Is there solicitors or something that have expertise in these fields that I could talk to? And if I could pay them to do it for me if I just give them everything they need?

Then your employer should be paying your travel expenses, or covering the cost through a pay rise.

However, it's not really very clear what your employment situation is, so if you spell it out it might help people to suggest ways you can get some money back.

And it would be a tax accountant that you'd need to speak to if you decided to seek professional advice.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

Basics here:

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

which points out that I am way out of date: if you have not been paid, you can claim mileage tax relief.

System

Technically this is not my permanent place of work. I am contracted from my company to an airline company.

You need to find out how long this contract is for. If it is going to be greater than 2 years and that was the case from the start, then it will be classed as a permanent work place for tax purposes

neilmcl

Zukkini wrote: »

Technically this is not my permanent place of work. I am contracted from my company to an airline company

"Technically" any site your use (or intend to use) for more than 2 years becomes your permanent place of work as far as HMRC are concerned.

And as IanMSpencer correctly mentions it's not how much you can "reclaim" from HMRC, it's how much you (if you are the employer) can pay yourself for business mileage and get tax relief from.

Zukkini

This is getting confusing. I am in a temporary work location (because it has been under 2 years). I can fill out a SA form and start reclaiming? Well, let me try it and see how it goes. I wish I could just pay someone to do it. Honestly, this may become a very long and tedious task.

System

But have you been told how long this temporary relocation is for?

Zukkini

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But have you been told how long this temporary relocation is for?

2 years. 6 months remain.

Ebe_Scrooge

Zukkini wrote: »

I wish I could just pay someone to do it.

Any accountant will be able to do this for you.

macman

As advised on your other thread, your company should be paying your expenses/and or adjusting your salary for the additional travelling time-and you should have checked that when you agreed to be contracted out to LHR. It's not tax deductible, as you are not self employed, and even if you were, you can't claim for the journey to work-only for the journeys from your place of work to your client's offices.
If your company is in the habit of contracting people out to distant locations for long periods, then surely their HR or legal people should be better able to advise you on this?

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

Zukkini wrote: »

This is getting confusing. I am in a temporary work location (because it has been under 2 years). I can fill out a SA form and start reclaiming? Well, let me try it and see how it goes. I wish I could just pay someone to do it. Honestly, this may become a very long and tedious task.

No you cannot if you do not understand what arrangements you already have with your employer. It may be that your salary was paid with an allowance to cover your travel, in which case your employer will have made the necessary tax adjustments. If you claim again, you could be claiming twice for the same money.

Before you go of and do anything, you need to talk to your employer. They should sort this out for you, it's run of the mill stuff to an HR department.

Next time you get a work placement offsite, you need to agree these things up front.