mileage from home to office

[tjl]

My current employment contract says I am office based but, following a change of role, I've just calculated that I only travelled to the office on 66 days during 2017 - 5.5 days per month. If I managed to persuade my employer that I should change to a home based contract, do you think that I could get mileage paid to the office without getting into hot water with the tax man, given the clear majority of the time I'm working from home or travelling in Europe ?

[Gio G]

If you have a home based contract, I believe you have the right to charge mileage for any visits to the office. I would ask your local HR team for clarification. I am on a home based contract and often asked to travel to our offices for customer meetings etc..

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[tankplanker]

If you travel to a regular place of work you can't claim it as far as I'm aware. If they can prove a regular pattern of travel to somewhere for more than 24 months elapsed time then you shouldn't claim it.

Expenses for travel to a temporary place of work is allowed: https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/travel...

I think the limit is still 24 months to count as temporary: https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employmen...

[Eric Mc]

The daily commute is never eligible for tax relief.

[Doofus]

If your employer refuses to pay then it's irrelevant. You should be asking them, not us.

[Zigster]

Eric Mc said:

The daily commute is never eligible for tax relief.

But it wouldn't be the daily commute? His daily commute would be the few steps from his bed to his desk in his study at home (or something like that). Travelling to an office other than his home location wouldn't be commuting, would it?

[tankplanker]

Zigster said:

But it wouldn't be the daily commute? His daily commute would be the few steps from his bed to his desk in his study at home (or something like that). Travelling to an office other than his home location wouldn't be commuting, would it?

Its commuting to a regular place of work, which is defined by HRMC (link in my previous post) as somewhere you have been travelling to for more than 24 months or set as your regular place of work.

Edit: It makes no distinction how many times you need to go to said place of work for it to count as such, just the time period.

[Eric Mc]

Zigster said:

But it wouldn't be the daily commute? His daily commute would be the few steps from his bed to his desk in his study at home (or something like that). Travelling to an office other than his home location wouldn't be commuting, would it?

I am pretty sure HMRC would see otherwise.

Read the Dr Samadian case.

https://www.accountancylive.com/implications-hmrc-...