15p isn't exactly great. I was paid 40p at my last place of work, but that only covered business mileage, not home to work. 15p is poor yeah, but at least they are covering 60 miles of my daily.
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15p isn't exactly great. I was paid 40p at my last place of work, but that only covered business mileage, not home to work. 15p is poor yeah, but at least they are covering 60 miles of my daily.
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He means you get X per month as an "allowance" on top of your salary to maintain a road-worthy vehicle (has business insurance is for example, my criteria) which you can do anything with. This can be exchanged for a company car in many places or you can take the money, buy a private car and maintain it yourself etc...
On top of this, for any journey to a destination that is not your primary work location, you usually get paid a per mile figure of roughly 15p. Any travel to your primary location and back again is not usually covered.
If you receive no car allowance than it's more common to get 45p or so because it's paying for fuel + maintaining a car etc.... this is what you're getting 15p for and why people are commenting on it, it's shockingly low.
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Brand new Pixo 100k warranty, £5k, drive it till it dies.
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Funny.
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That's nice of them to give you £9 to get to work and back.
But if you were to travel 300 miles per month for purely business use (excluding home to office). Then 15p x 300 miles is not going to cover the expense of a BMW. £45 wouldn't even get me 300 miles in my car!!
Costs me about £22 to get to work and back.
At the end of the day, it's my choice to live so far away from work, they don't even need to contribute £9 towards a personal commute.
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Absolutely, but I would take that £9 they are giving you as a pure bonus, and not put it in your equation when thinking about funding a BMW for work purposes.
They can easily pull that £9 from you at any given moment, I'd be surprised if it was written in your contract, it's more of a goodwill gesture?
I'd be scrapping the BMW idea, and getting a £2k mondeo equivalent running it to the ground.
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If the 15p they pay is for home/work/home then won't this cause problems if trying to claim the extra from the tax man?
Not written in my contract, purely a goodwill gesture.
The latter is sounding like the best idea.
15p is the standard, so business mileage too.
Seriously, my mate has just done 35k in a year and half in his Pixo and he's not dead or damaged or has back ache or suffering some mental damage, the Pixo runs still, nothing wrong with it, service is pennies and it's fairly economical.
Drive it to death then leave something massive on the drive for the weekends
Me no but then I don't do that mileage at my cost or part of my cost, if it were all my cost then I'd be thinking about it.
Then again I just read
I don't think a 3 cylinder tin box would suit.
Unless.......
Put a hybrid / eco / recycle sticker on the back, et voila there's one image
Soldato
What I'm saying is that the tax man won't look kindly on trying the claim the difference if they find out that the miles are in fact commute to work, unless your work have you as say being home based?
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Home to a fixed office cannot be claimed as business mileage AFAIK.
I hope you get a corking salary and have an awesome job as thast a huge amount of miles unless you are a in a driving type job.
I hope you get a corking salary and have an awesome job as thast a huge amount of miles unless you are a in a driving type job.
Soldato
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/mileage/employee-factsheet.pdf
It's a protected PDF so no copy and paste, but if you are paid a contribution to milage for your journey to work (what HMRC class a non-work journey), you should pay tax and NICs on that money.
A work journey is delivery goods or visiting a customer, not your drive to work (even if you visit a customer unless the journey is "significantly different" from your usual commute).
It's a protected PDF so no copy and paste, but if you are paid a contribution to milage for your journey to work (what HMRC class a non-work journey), you should pay tax and NICs on that money.
A work journey is delivery goods or visiting a customer, not your drive to work (even if you visit a customer unless the journey is "significantly different" from your usual commute).
hahahhaha
Soldato
I wouldn't even be thinking about a BMW at such a comically low pence per mile allowance and most of being commute anyway. Get a Mondeo or something at half or less the budget otherwise it will cost you a fortune.
I don't claim my home to work as business mileage, as that is obviously illegal. What I meant by 3200 work miles is that they relate to work in some way, i.e. from my fixed place of work to another location, or home to work commute. That probably doesn't even make sense now haha.
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Doesn't count as business use
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