Claiming travel costs

MrBananas

Got it. No free bananas for me it seems at least I’m still saving several thousand on rail tickets though!

Andy_L

MrBananas wrote: »

Let me rephrase. My company has two offices in a London. I am employed at, and usually travel to the East London office. If I travel to the West London office for the day (I do this approx once every eight weeks) can I claim that?

Yes, although you can only claim the tax back (ie 20/40%) on the amount not all of it

Andy_L

agrinnall wrote: »

How much of your jurney to West London would be the same as your journey to East London? If there's a big overlap (which I suspect there may be) then I'd suggest that the tax man might well either see them as the same destination, so ineligible to claim, or only the part of the jurney that's different could be claimd (for example, tube fare from mainline station to West London)..

THe "triangular rule" was abolished ~20 years ago. The employer can still impose it (although it seems like they don't pay any travel costs anyway) but HMRC don't care

Pennywise

Andy_L wrote: »

THe "triangular rule" was abolished ~20 years ago. The employer can still impose it (although it seems like they don't pay any travel costs anyway) but HMRC don't care

The old triangulation is not what they were referring to. These days, HMRC will disallow a "temporary workplace" if the overall journey is too similar to their normal "commute". There are specific instances in their manual referring to this. Such as where a person usually works in one office in the City, but then goes to a different office a few blocks away - HMRC regard the overall journey as the same and now allowable if it's only part of the journey that's fundamentally different from the usual commute, such as getting off the tube a stop later or walking a couple of blocks from the station East instead of West.