company car mileage claim
company car mileage claim
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kejoma

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12 posts

165 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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My husband has a car leased through his company. He gets paid 12ppm for his mileage but has been told (by other employees) that he can claim additional mileage via his tax return. from what i can tell, the only additional he can claim is to match the HMRC Advisory Fuel Rates (therefore, possibly 1-3 pence per mile).

Does anyone know if this is correct? he gets tax relief on 34p. im not sure that he is entitled to anything else but if he is....i want to get his (my) hands on it!

Deva Link

26,934 posts

275 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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Who pays for the lease? If it's his employer then he can't claim anything else. You can only claim if it's your own car.

Don't understand this bit:
kejoma said:
he gets tax relief on 34p.

sumo69

2,164 posts

250 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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Nor do I!

kejoma

Original Poster:

12 posts

165 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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Deva Link said:
neither do i! lol. he fills in his mileage and they send it back showing the amount paid, a tax relief amount and a differential amount.

bogie

17,094 posts

302 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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HMRC says you can have 45p a mile tax free for 10K miles and 25p thereafter

so if you are paid by employer 15p a mile, you get tax relief on the other 30p

theres a thread every week on this, and its a documented HMRC system, you just fill out your self assessment, keep records and get a tax rebate each year or they build it into your tax code if its regular enough

jwo

989 posts

279 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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You can only get tax relief if your own car - if company provided you can't claim the tax relief (well you could but it's fraud) and would be obvious as p11d would show company car!

Deva Link

26,934 posts

275 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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kejoma said:
neither do i! lol. he fills in his mileage and they send it back showing the amount paid, a tax relief amount and a differential amount.
It sounds like he might have an ECO - employee car ownership - scheme in which case the car is technically his own, but all the tax relief should be worked out by the scheme operator.

kejoma

Original Poster:

12 posts

165 months

Sunday 13th January 2013
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Thanks, i'll try and find out more from him. it might help if he talks to others at work in the same situation.

Thanks again guys.

Eric Mc

125,768 posts

295 months

Monday 14th January 2013
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If the company leases the vehicle, it is deemed to be a "Company Car" and therefore he cannot make a claim at the 45p level. The 45p claim relates to employees who use their own personal car for work related journeys.

In the case of a company car, there are often two aspects to the car - the Benefit in Kind on the car itself, and the Benefit in Kind on the provision of fuel by the employer.

If the employer does NOT provide fuel for the car and the employee DOES make work related trips, that is when he can claim 12p per mile to recover the cost of fuel paid for on those business trips (if claiming from the employer or to obtain tax relief on the business mileage (if claiming tax relief from HMRC).

ArmaghMan

2,802 posts

210 months

Monday 14th January 2013
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kejoma said:
My husband has a car leased through his company. He gets paid 12ppm for his mileage but has been told (by other employees) that he can claim additional mileage via his tax return. from what i can tell, the only additional he can claim is to match the HMRC Advisory Fuel Rates (therefore, possibly 1-3 pence per mile).

Does anyone know if this is correct? he gets tax relief on 34p. im not sure that he is entitled to anything else but if he is....i want to get his (my) hands on it!
Right, lesson 1 ..he cannot claim additional mileage. That would be fraud!!
What he can do is downloadable V87 form from HMRC and claim back the tax on the difference between what his employer pays him per mile (12p) and what HMRC allows them to pay ( currently 18p) per mile.
If he is a 40% tax payer he will get that returned.

Deva Link

26,934 posts

275 months

Monday 14th January 2013
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ArmaghMan said:
Right, lesson 1 ..he cannot claim additional mileage. That would be fraud!!
What he can do is downloadable V87 form from HMRC and claim back the tax on the difference between what his employer pays him per mile (12p) and what HMRC allows them to pay ( currently 18p) per mile.
If he is a 40% tax payer he will get that returned.
If there was an award for the most amount of wrong information in the smallest amount of space, then that post would surely win.

Absolutely everything written there is wrong.

ArmaghMan

2,802 posts

210 months

Wednesday 16th January 2013
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Deva Link said:
ArmaghMan said:
Right, lesson 1 ..he cannot claim additional mileage. That would be fraud!!
What he can do is downloadable V87 form from HMRC and claim back the tax on the difference between what his employer pays him per mile (12p) and what HMRC allows them to pay ( currently 18p) per mile.
If he is a 40% tax payer he will get that returned.
If there was an award for the most amount of wrong information in the smallest amount of space, then that post would surely win.

Absolutely everything written there is wrong.
Oh. I must be doing everything wrong then. Still, as long as HMRC keep sending the cheques !!!!