Fuel Tax Relief

Darksparkle

lisa110rry wrote: »

No, there was a new set of rates published 1 December 2016, although the old rates can be allowed to continue for one month.

Did you open the link?

scottkeene

This is the text from the link.......

Using a company car for business

You can claim tax relief on the money you’ve spent on fuel or electricity for business trips in your company car. Keep records to show the actual cost of the fuel or electricity you’ve bought or used.
If your employer reimburses only some of the money, you can claim relief on the difference.


Link below from the gov website (cannot post a link on here for some reason).


tax-relief-for-employees/business-mileage-fuel-costs

Darksparkle

scottkeene wrote: »

This is the text from the link.......

Using a company car for business

You can claim tax relief on the money you’ve spent on fuel or electricity for business trips in your company car. Keep records to show the actual cost of the fuel or electricity you’ve bought or used.
If your employer reimburses only some of the money, you can claim relief on the difference.


Link below from the gov website (cannot post a link on here for some reason).


tax-relief-for-employees/business-mileage-fuel-costs

So pays for fuel? You? Or the company?

Is it diesel or petrol? What's the engine size?

scottkeene

Me. And I just claim back the mileage of business trips (twice or three times a week) to client sites. Current rate is 9p a mile I think.

Diesel - 1.6.

dori2o

As per the link Darksparkle has given, if its a company car, diesel, 1600cc or less, and you are already being paid 9p per business mile by your employer then there is no additional relief due.

Jiames1949

Can anyone help me understand?
I have waded through websites and this forum and I'm still lost.
My wife is a carer and uses her own car for work travelling to peoples homes. She is paid nothing by her company for using her car. It seems if you claim 45p per mile against tax that this is only worth 20% of 45p i.e. 9p. Can this be right? It's less than it costs in petrol never mind servicing, tyres, depreciation etc. She does about 5000 - 6000 miles a year. Please help as it's not the best paid job without losing money on fuel as well.

Dazed_and_confused

And don't forget you only get a refund of tax actually paid so if it's "not the best paid job" or she's part time then is she actually paying any tax? If not then there isn't going to be any tax refund due.

Goodform

Hi, we have a slight variation of this issue that is causing confusion when assessing what tax relief we can claim. Grateful for any advice/comments:
My wife leases a vehicle via her employer (NHS) and pays a monthly discounted cost for this out of her wage.
Her P11D shows; the "List price of the car", the "Amount paid by employee for private use of the car" and "Total cash equivalent of all cars made available in 2016 to 2017". No other figures are presented on the form.
The lease contract covers; maintenance costs, road tax and servicing, but NOT insurance, which she has to purchase at her own cost.
She uses the car mainly for business purposes (community nurse visiting patients etc), but it is also used privately. She is given a business mileage allowance of 10p a mile.
Given the circumstances above - is her car (for the purposes of claiming business mileage tax relief) considered a company vehicle? or a private vehicle? i.e. as she has to purchase her own insurance, can she claim tax relief on the approved mileage rate of 45p (minus the 10p her employer pays)?

Tom99

Jiames1949 wrote: »

Can anyone help me understand?
I have waded through websites and this forum and I'm still lost.
My wife is a carer and uses her own car for work travelling to peoples homes. She is paid nothing by her company for using her car. It seems if you claim 45p per mile against tax that this is only worth 20% of 45p i.e. 9p. Can this be right? It's less than it costs in petrol never mind servicing, tyres, depreciation etc. She does about 5000 - 6000 miles a year. Please help as it's not the best paid job without losing money on fuel as well.

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Its up to your wife's employer to pay her from using her own car. Up to 45p a mile will be tax free.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Since your wife gets 0p per mile its assumed the mileage allowance is part of her basic salary hence the tax relief on 45p.[/FONT]

Goodform

Goodform wrote: »

Hi, we have a slight variation of this issue that is causing confusion when assessing what tax relief we can claim. Grateful for any advice/comments:
My wife leases a vehicle via her employer (NHS) and pays a monthly discounted cost for this out of her wage.
Her P11D shows; the "List price of the car", the "Amount paid by employee for private use of the car" and "Total cash equivalent of all cars made available in 2016 to 2017". No other figures are presented on the form.
The lease contract covers; maintenance costs, road tax and servicing, but NOT insurance, which she has to purchase at her own cost.
She uses the car mainly for business purposes (community nurse visiting patients etc), but it is also used privately. She is given a business mileage allowance of 10p a mile.
Given the circumstances above - is her car (for the purposes of claiming business mileage tax relief) considered a company vehicle? or a private vehicle? i.e. as she has to purchase her own insurance, can she claim tax relief on the approved mileage rate of 45p (minus the 10p her employer pays)?

In reply to my own post
I have just been on the HMRC web chat and gave them this query. At first they stated we could not use the "Approved mileage rate" because the car was not privately owned. However, after then being transferred to a Technical Officer for clarity, I have had it confirmed that my wife's car "is not technically a company car" and that "she can claim the 45p per mile and deduct the 10p she gets from her employer"
Hopefully this will now clear up the approved mileage issue for the other lease car employees that have enquired about this issue on this and numerous other threads!
I'm certainly keeping the transcript of my webchat conversation with the HMRC on this!