Business mileage
Discussion
If an employee spends a few days away from home for work, driving a company vehicle which is declared to the tax man as unavailable for private use.
If the employee needs to use the vehicle in the following scenarios would either be seen by the taxman as private use:
1. To drive to a nearby supermarket to buy food for an evening meal while staying away from home for work.
2. To drive to a beach for some exercise while staying away from home for work.
In both cases the employee would be several hours away from home so it's not as easy as using their own vehicle.
Interested in your thoughts?
If the employee needs to use the vehicle in the following scenarios would either be seen by the taxman as private use:
1. To drive to a nearby supermarket to buy food for an evening meal while staying away from home for work.
2. To drive to a beach for some exercise while staying away from home for work.
In both cases the employee would be several hours away from home so it's not as easy as using their own vehicle.
Interested in your thoughts?
surveyor said:
If an employee spends a few days away from home for work, driving a company vehicle which is declared to the tax man as unavailable for private use.
If the employee needs to use the vehicle in the following scenarios would either be seen by the taxman as private use:
1. To drive to a nearby supermarket to buy food for an evening meal while staying away from home for work.
2. To drive to a beach for some exercise while staying away from home for work.
In both cases the employee would be several hours away from home so it's not as easy as using their own vehicle.
Interested in your thoughts?
I think both would be reasonable considered to be incidental to the trip. It may become questionable however if:If the employee needs to use the vehicle in the following scenarios would either be seen by the taxman as private use:
1. To drive to a nearby supermarket to buy food for an evening meal while staying away from home for work.
2. To drive to a beach for some exercise while staying away from home for work.
In both cases the employee would be several hours away from home so it's not as easy as using their own vehicle.
Interested in your thoughts?
1. Employee was picking up a takeaway to take to a friends house who lives in the area they were working.
2. Employee was meeting others on the beach to play a group sport.
IANA..whoever makes up the rules about this sort of stuff.
StevieBee said:
Absolutely not. The employee has been sent away on company business - that time determined by when he left the office / home and when he returned.
This, provided it is reasonable and not excessive. There is no opportunity for the employee to park up the van and get into his/her privately owned vehicle.I used to do lot of on site assignments - usually 3 days to a week long staying in a hotel and take a pool car.
I'd record my mileage for Office - Customer Site, any mileage I did whilst I was away I just recorded as "Local", then my mileage back to the office. I'd often drive out to get some dinner, go to the cinema, drive out for a walk, occasionally visit friends who were local etc. All my colleagues did the same.
Ask the Accountant this: Why would your evening meal be allowed as a tax free expense when working away, but driving a company vehicle to go somewhere to buy it not be?
HMRC never had a issue with it and they did check our pool car records on more than one occasion.
I'd record my mileage for Office - Customer Site, any mileage I did whilst I was away I just recorded as "Local", then my mileage back to the office. I'd often drive out to get some dinner, go to the cinema, drive out for a walk, occasionally visit friends who were local etc. All my colleagues did the same.
Ask the Accountant this: Why would your evening meal be allowed as a tax free expense when working away, but driving a company vehicle to go somewhere to buy it not be?
HMRC never had a issue with it and they did check our pool car records on more than one occasion.
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