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Company Mileage Expenses (Private Car) Advice Please?

RK76
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Joined:Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:06 pm

Postby RK76 » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:27 am

Hello. I am new to this forum so i hope someone will be able to assist me with some basic tax advice.

I am currently working for an IT Consultancy firm based just outside London. My role is a field based role, i often spend 75%-90% of my time at our client sites, which are located in and around London. The job is a higher rate tax basic salary with a £450pcm gross car allowance.

My company pay 20 pence per mile for business mileage. I am currently doing between 10-15k business miles per year.

Due to the amount i travel, and the rarety that i am in the office my manager has agreed that i will now be based permanently based from home. I will have to travel to the office weekly for meetings but generally i wont work there.

I have been told that i can change my default location with the inland revenue, so that i can claim mileage expenses from home to wherever i am working. Is this correct? Does anyone have a link to a good but readable (in plain english) guide to the rules associated with this and what i would have to do to change etc?

I would appreciate any advice, as i am fairly new to this game, and dont want to lose out.

Thankyou.

Richard

Bob Jones
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Joined:Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:43 pm

Postby Bob Jones » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:40 pm

Hi Richard

You can claim home to site anyway - being based at home would enable you to claim home to office but HMRC are taking a strict view ont his these days - there has to be an objective reason requiring you to work at home and nowhere else before you can claim home as your place of work ...

Bob


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