P87 Form For Mileage

[jesmond]

hope i should put this here, when claiming for refund of mileage on a p87 form at end of tax year i dont get paid for all travelled miles to do my job, so can i add this amount of miles to the miles claimed on the same form, first time i have had to do this due to it being quite a new job, also other staff have said there is somewhere on the form where i can claim back rebate for the items i have had to buy to do the job, like tunics shoes etc, many many thanx

[boxtops]

The notes at the top of the form are pretty clear - section 2 is for your business miles. You don't get relief or reimbursement on the miles you don't get paid (very few of us get paid for travelling to and from a regular place of work each day!) and the other items go in under section 4.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/p87.pdf

[boxtops]

PS you will need to send in receipts for the items under section 4.

[1eyedjack]

You can't do much better than to have a read of the P87 form and supporting guidance notes, at least as a starting point, both to be found here:
http://search2.hmrc.gov.uk/kb5/hmrc/forms/view.page?record=lNKqI3HRKkQ&formId=769

As regards the mileage, you can claim 45p per business mile for the first 10000 business miles per tax year, 25p per mile for excess, less amounts paid to you for mileage by the employer. You don't get the full amount back from HMRC at that rate of course, you simply get an allowance of this amount as a deduction from your taxable income. There are supplements for taking passengers on busines journeys.

A significant risk in relation to mileage is that what YOU regard as "business" mileage and what HMRC regard as "business" mileage may not coincide. If your employer pays for some miles and not others then I speculate that the risk of different interpretations here is heightened.

[jesmond]

i did have a very quick look at the form but i am sure it only asked for how many miles you had done not if these were paid to you, then asked what you had actually been paid for further down the form, so rightly or wrongly i would presume that even if i had not been paid for some miles,then i would include them with the paid miles. i have been advised by others to claim as my work does not cover a permanent place of work so i basically dont go to the same place, as i work for an agency, so hopefully that will clear up the confusion that we dont claim for travelling to work, which i knew, but will have a proper look at the form many thanx all

[1eyedjack]

I did not intend to say that you could NOT claim for them. The potential for those other miles to qualify does exist. I only suggest that it is dangerous so to assume without care. If you are confident that every mile that you enter in the claim would pass HMRC's tests for "business" mileage, then by all means go for it.

[boxtops]

Where I work, we can only claim for "going to work" miles if it's not our usual work base. You need to check the T&Cs with your agency, where they consider to be your base - IMO.

[jesmond]

thanx all. just got to make time to sort it out x