Travel Expenses rate - Is mine reasonable?

Swampmonster

I work as a school dinner lady taking dinners, plates etc for up to 50 children from one school to another and back. I get paid 40p per mile and travel 17 miles a day in my 1.4 petrol car.

The thing is it makes my little car very heavy and gets alot of wear and tear from the bumpy country roads. When I started work in november last year 40p per mile seemed a good deal but with rising petrol prices do you think this is reasonable? Starting to struggle a bit at the moment so don't want to be ripped off.

I'd be grateful of your opinions as I have no previous experience of travel expenses.

SM

katyw

I think this would be better posted on the tax advice site, but I can say that the 40p a mile (for the first 10,000 miles and 25p thereafter) is HMRC's tax free mileage allowance and is correct. If the school paid you any more it would be taxable.

Swampmonster

Thanks for that info. Just looked at HMRC site. I see what you mean, the rate is set it stone isn't it.

Do you think they're likely to increase it soon? As they say 'every little helps'.

itsnever2lateisit?

The rates have not changed since 2002/03 when they went DOWN:eek: The chancellor wishes to discourage travel by car for business hence the introduction of a rate of 20p for a bicycle:D , but I guess the dinners would be cold if you used that method of transportation:rotfl: :rotfl: