Claiming mileage

[DaveReading]

That's uncharacteristivally generous of HMRC, not reducing the bike rate if you go over 10,000 miles a year.

 

[BrumJim]

My company doesn't. However I can claim it back through HMRC, as I have to complete a tax return every year.

 

[pjd57]

30 miles around Glasgow today.
Deduct the nonsensical " home to office " bit .( I start and finish at home and don't go near any office)
20×20p = £4.

 

[ricnott]

Is that even legal, assuming that the employee is paying for the bike & it's not been covered by the firm.

Isn't this around the fact that that until you pay the final market value payment for the bike your employer owns it and you are leasing it form them and as such no mileage can be claimed as you are not using your own vehicle and are receiving a benefit in kind with the tax saving?

 

[User16625]

My company pays cycling miles.

You're correct that commuting miles (to your normal place of work) are not claimable, but travel to other locations definitely is.
If I remember correctly there are some gotchas- temporary sites eventually become unclaimable if you visit them often. You can be deemed to have two places of work too, so watch out for that one. Worth a good look at the Inland Revenue rules, and KEEP RECORDS of your journeys.

Note, you can claim from the Inland Revenue if our company doesn't pay travel expenses.

Is there a logical reason why you cant claim for the regular commute? You need to be at work, and you need to get there. It costs both time and money to commute, time that is not compensated for but should be IMO.

 

[iandg]

The NHS does. I used to claim cycle mileage when on-call and when I travelled between buildings for meetings.

20p per mile

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandb...ce/section-17-reimbursement-of-travel-costs-1

 

[Drago]

@User. Will you please stop saying sensible things that I agree with. Its very disconcerting. Thank you

 

[summerdays]

I do know one co-op which paid the motoring rate for cycling because they don't agree with paying more for motoring. They said they'd write it off as good publicity if HMRC challenges them for it

At one point Bristol City Council used to pay an almost similar rate for cycling and cars, but then they chopped the cycle mileage rate in half to the normal rate.

 

[Drago]

At one point Bristol City Council used to pay an almost similar rate for cycling and cars, but then they chopped the cycle mileage rate in half to the normal rate.

That backward. They should chop the car rat in half, encourage some folk on to their bikes.

 

[Milkfloat]

That backward. They should chop the car rat in half, encourage some folk on to their bikes.

Car rat?

 

[mustang1]

The company should pay a fixed amount for distance the it should be up to the person to use whatever is appropriate.

If the company has different tiers for cycles, motorcycles, cars and so on, then they need to have something for gas guzzler cars too.

 

[Bazzer]

Is there a logical reason why you cant claim for the regular commute? You need to be at work, and you need to get there. It costs both time and money to commute, time that is not compensated for but should be IMO.

As @User says, where you live is personal choice. Travelling to work merely puts you in a position to undertake your work, whereas relief is available for expenditure incurred in undertaking your work.

 

[lazybloke]

Yes any commute from home to your usual place of work is considered personal mileage (or was when I was a mobile Tefal-head).
It's was only unusual journeys (home to customer and back) or an onward journey from base to other location (and back) that qualified as business mileage.

Haven't done business miles for a while , but can remember various quirks of the system like HMRC could consider TWO offices to be your base location simultaneously. Nasty if you were depending on the expense claims.

 

[mgs315]

Funnily enough I get funny looks for leaving the work van in the depot and cycling to/from work on my own bike when I’m perfectly entitled to take the van home and use the fuel card for it. Pay my own wear and tear on the bike, nothing on the van.

Still, gets me a bit extra exercise that day. Saves gym bashing.

 

[pclay]

I can claim 20p a mile from the company I work for. There is a training centre 17 miles away form where I live, that I sometime go to, so I don't mind getting paid for the privilege of cycling there and back.