Full time employed but self employed second job - Can anyone help??

bmd1980

I currently have a full time job (who sort out paying my tax) and have in the last year started doing some self employed work to help make ends meet.

I am due to put a tax return in and believe i can claim for mileage getting to and from the second job (its always at the same location)
do i need to have petrol receipts for this? and am i right in thinking i can claim at £0.45p per mile?

its the first time I've ever had to put a return in so any advice will be gratefully received!!

many thanks in advance!

WHA

bmd1980 wrote: »

believe i can claim for mileage getting to and from the second job (its always at the same location)

Not automatically, no. HMRC may regard your destination as your "permanent workplace" if you do all your self employed work there, in which case no travel is claimable.

There have been cases where travel has been disallowed, such as a milkman's journey from home to his depot to collect his milk float, and a doctor who had his claim disallowed from his home to his consulting rooms. The grounds for refusal of both were that the "work" couldn't & wasn't done from home.

You do need to be doing something substantive at home for it to be your "permanent workplace" and then your travel to the client can be a "temporary workplace" and claimable for. So if you do some work at home before/after you've been to the client, i.e. writing up a report or planning for your next visit, then that helps, as does doing a significant amount of admin, marketing, etc at home.

But, realistically speaking, if all you do at home is the occasional phone call and an hour of book-keeping every month, and all your "work" is done on the client premises, the same premises you attend all the time, then your chances of a travel expense claim being allowed are pretty much zero.

CLAPTON

bmd1980 wrote: »

I currently have a full time job (who sort out paying my tax) and have in the last year started doing some self employed work to help make ends meet.

I am due to put a tax return in and believe i can claim for mileage getting to and from the second job (its always at the same location)
do i need to have petrol receipts for this? and am i right in thinking i can claim at £0.45p per mile?

its the first time I've ever had to put a return in so any advice will be gratefully received!!

many thanks in advance!

presumably 'the last year' means you earned some SE before 5th april 2015

polymaff

bmd1980 wrote: »

I currently have a full time job (who sort out paying my tax) and have in the last year started doing some self employed work to help make ends meet.

I am due to put a tax return in and believe i can claim for mileage getting to and from the second job (its always at the same location)

I agree with WHA - virtually no chance. What I really want to comment on is your "who sort out paying my tax". You, and only you - and, particularly now that you are completing SA forms as a self-employed person - definitely you, are responsible for getting your income tax "sorted" and paid.