CLaiming Mileage allowence

tmw7573

Can anyone help me, as the GOV do seem interested. My husband is a lorry driver and registered as a Ltd co. He works mainly through an agency. He doesn't own his own lorry. Where can I find out if he can claim mileage for travelling to an from the different companies he works for.


Thanks all

InsideInsurance

So this is use of his personal car to get to his clients sites?

General_Grant

tmw7573 wrote: »

Can anyone help me, as the GOV do seem interested. My husband is a lorry driver and registered as a Ltd co. He works mainly through an agency. He doesn't own his own lorry. Where can I find out if he can claim mileage for travelling to an from the different companies he works for.


Thanks all

So he is a lorry driver and owns a private limited company which employs him?

paddyrg

General_Grant wrote: »

So he is a lorry driver and owns a private limited company which employs him?

If this is the case (and it sounds like it is) then he can claim from his employer... which is the company he owns... so from himself.

If he expects to claim anything from the company that engages his company to provide drivers, that needs to be by negotiation separately, and most likely billed through his own limited company.

w211

You can set yourself up as a limited company, offering services as lorry driver, and sign up to an agency who finds you work.

It's similar to what some chauffeurs do. They set up a limited company, offering their services, and make themselves known/available to agencies who find them work, driving their client's car (which is really the same job, except driving a different vehicle and driving people around rather than goods).

Mistral001

If it is "claiming" it as an expense against tax, then it is simple, he just claims so much per mile.


If it is "claiming" it as an expense from the companies he works for, it is not so much a claim as a charge so it will have to be factored into the price he charges the company for his services. Companies will generally take the lowest price no matter how far their drivers have to drive to pick up their lorry.

TheTracker

tmw7573 wrote: »

Can anyone help me, as the GOV do seem interested. My husband is a lorry driver and registered as a Ltd co. He works mainly through an agency. He doesn't own his own lorry. Where can I find out if he can claim mileage for travelling to an from the different companies he works for.


Thanks all

Your OP says he wants to claim the cost of travelling to and from work. Replies have also talked about the cost of driving as part of his job. Did you mean both cases? I think you only mean the former and repliers have confounded the rather irrelevant fact his job is a driver. He can't claim tax relief on the mileage performed driving a client's car. He can claim tax relief on the mileage performed driving to and from client sites in his own car, subject to mileage allowances.

The situation to me sounds like he is a lorry driver who drives to and from client sites in his own car and he drives client lorries once on site to and from the clients customers sites, and he provides the driving service (not a lorry service) through a limited company which he owns. If this is the case then his job is rather irrelevant, he could be a driver or a turkey plucker or accountant or doctor for the difference it makes to mileage allowance.