Company Car Mileage - Advice Please

These are the rules as I understand them yes.

(The converse is that someone who doesn't normally commute by car, is allowed to claim the full mileage)

tim

My understanding is that you can claim from home to another location only if the mileage is less than from your office to that place. If it is further from home to the alternative location you have to deduct the home to work mileage or the difference between the home to other location and office to other location, whichever is less.

Neb

Correct, as far as the IR are concerned (your company's policy may be different

- but if it is you can get tax relief).

IIRC there are execptions like if the other location is very close to your usual place of work, eg an office in the same town.

You might do for your expense claim - that'll depend on your company's expenses policy. But as far as the IR are concerned, the full journey is business mileage and if your company don't pay it in full, claim tax relief on the difference.

"Different location" isn't enough. Start here:

Having looked this up

I am sure that it didn't use to be like this - Oh well! (And I an absolutely certain that the old web site containing eveything in a flat format was a million times easier to use that this 'modern' linked thing that they now have, where finding a proper top level menu is next to impossible.)

tim

I'm pretty sure it's been like this for at least 20 years, I've always claimed expenses on this basis.

The logic is that many people have a season ticket or share lifts to their usual place of work. For such people the full journey is additional expense, not just the additional mileage over and above their usual commute.

I will read up on the web site links - thanks to all that have replied.