Petrol Expenses

lionelflare

Hello,

I get paid by my company 30p per mile for going to visit customers at their homes. This is paid on to my payslip and I get taxed on this. Should I be getting paid tax on expenses? I have also been told that because I dont get 40p per mile I can claim something back from the taxman is this correct? if so how do I go about getting it?

Hope someone can help

CIS

This may help

http://www.quayaccounting.com/forms/ir/ir125.pdf

lionelflare

thanks.

looks like ive got plenty of reading to do at some stage tonight!

Savvy_Sue

Personally I don't think you should have tax deducted from your mileage expenses - or indeed any other expenses, I sometimes buy stationery for work and pay for it myself and then reclaim the money, and I'd take a dim view of it if I had tax deducted! To save a lot of bedtime reading you could phone your local tax office and ask them?

shiprob195

i am a care assistant, i visit people in their own homes. i too get 30p per mile, but is on my wage slip as untaxed/NI.

i only work part time so do not pay tax/NI. but the full timers gan get an allowance of an extra 10p per mile from the tax office.

Rebecca22

You definitely shouldn't get taxed on expenses whatever rate of tax you pay

Savvy_Sue

Rebecca22 wrote:

You definitely shouldn't get taxed on expenses whatever rate of tax you pay

I'm not sure that's strictly true.

If the expenses relate directly to money you have spent, then no, you shouldn't pay tax when you are reimbursed. Same with mileage, as long as you are not paid MORE than the official HMRC rate (which someone is saying is 40p per mile).

However, IF your employer pays a flat rate of expenses for meals and accommodation when you are out of the office, whether or not you spend that money, then I believe this MAY be taxable. And there are other expenses which may be taxable as well.

I did a quick search for expenses on the HMRC website and there are a lot of notes and guides there, I got bogged down ...

MarkyMarkD

Sue's quite right. But just because something is paid through your payslip doesn't mean it's necessarily being taxed - my expenses are paid gross, but through the payslip.

To check if the expenses are actually being treated as taxable, check the cumulative taxable amount from one payslip to the next and see whether the normal gross pay is all that's in there - or whether the expenses are also being included. If so, they shouldn't be.

scheming_gypsy

think we get taxed as the company i work for pays 49p a mile (probably to compensate) on engines over 1.6.

Pink.

I visit patients in their homes and get paid 32p per mile.

The mileage allowance appears under Travel on my pay advice and has never been taxed.


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lionelflare

Thanks for all theinfo,

regards the extra 10p, does that mean i get 10p from the taxman for every mile that i do? or do i get the tax on the extra 10p? so 1.75p per mile? Also how do I go about getting this back do i just ring my tax office and ask for a form?

Sorry for been a bit dim on this!