Expenses

[Downward]

Uh Oh

I claimed for Business miles on Bike and Excess Miles - Half the price of my Car expenses and my Bike cost the same as my car !

We can still claim 20p a mile. Funny how no-one bats an eyelid when people claim 43p a mile for Cars.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...MPs-claim-20p-mile-expenses-riding-BIKES.html

 

[mr_cellophane]

he stopped claiming the allowance because it did not cost him anything to ride his bicycle

I wish riding my bike didn't cost me anything

 

[Mo1959]

I wish riding my bike didn't cost me anything

Me too. I've never been so poor since I took up this cycling malarky!

 

[helston90]

If anything I wish the system was reversed- 40p or whatever for going by bike and 20p per mile by car, call it an incentive tax.

 

[Mo1959]

If anything I wish the system was reversed- 40p or whatever for going by bike and 20p per mile by car, call it an incentive tax.

That's actually a really good idea. Why didn't the government think of that in their efforts to get more people cycling!

 

[Downward]

I feel a bit vindicated ! I used to get £20 a month in expenses.

 

[Mr Celine]

I occaisionally use my bike for work and claim 20p a mile, but always get paid 45p a mile because no one in personnel knows what to do with a bike claim. The rest of my business mileage is done in an 11 year old Polo 1.2E for which I get 45p a mile, though the marginal cost to me is closer to 20p. The marginal cost to me of using the bike is around 10p a mile, so the profit to me of using the car is double that of using the bike.

I doubt the DM or their numpty readership would understand this.

 

[DCLane]

My work pays 20p / mile for work-related mileage by bike but nothing if you have a C2W bike, which I do.

 

[steveindenmark]

That's actually a really good idea. Why didn't the government think of that in their efforts to get more people cycling!

In the UK you have the most terrible cycling infrastructure in Europe with probably the most fatalities every year. Do you really think you need a big influx of cyclists on the road while at the same time giving cyclists more money and taking it away from car drivers?

They would be using you for target practice.

If you got a good cycling infrastructure and then implemented it. Then it would be a good idea.

How you get to that stage is a mystery.

Steve

 

[Archie_tect]

Claims for taxis and car mileage are uncontested, presumably Oyster Cards, bus, Underground and train journeys are also uncontested.... yet claims for cycling generate a witch-hunt. How much more stupid can these people get, are they incapable of any rational thought?

 

[theclaud]

Do you really think you need a big influx of cyclists on the road while at the same time giving cyclists more money and taking it away from car drivers?

Er... yes.

 

[steveindenmark]

Er... yes.

Now put it back in context Claud...you little cheat.

Steve

 

[4F]

In the UK you have the most terrible cycling infrastructure in Europe with probably the most fatalities every year. Do you really think you need a big influx of cyclists on the road while at the same time giving cyclists more money and taking it away from car drivers?

They would be using you for target practice.

If you got a good cycling infrastructure and then implemented it. Then it would be a good idea.

How you get to that stage is a mystery.

Steve

Yes a big influx would be good. The more cyclists there are, the more cars will be used to them and then that follows that the safer it should be for all parties without having to resort to separated lanes. We are traffic.

 

[theclaud]

Now put it back in context Claud...you little cheat.

Steve

Your original context is there for everyone to read. I quoted the bit I was answering. The desirability of "a big influx of cyclists" and the need to offer incentives for cycling and walking and disincentives for driving ought not to be controversial on a cycling forum.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

In the UK you have the most terrible cycling infrastructure in Europe with probably the most fatalities every year. Do you really think you need a big influx of cyclists on the road while at the same time giving cyclists more money and taking it away from car drivers?

They would be using you for target practice.

If you got a good cycling infrastructure and then implemented it. Then it would be a good idea.

How you get to that stage is a mystery.

Steve

I think you may have overestimated the number of people and journeys where work mileage expenses are a factor. I also think in this day and age of austerity and pathetic mealy mouthed politico lip service to promoting cycling that a minor shift in a minor expense wouldn't really be a seismic shock, the knobbers that would use us as target practice (~0.001% - don't believe the negative hysteria) won't be waiting for any sort of veneer excuse for their actions.

as for do we want an influx of cyclists on the roads - hell yeah, it is the only way we'll get sensible serious infrastructure in most of our lifetimes.