Travel tax allowance? Any info please

samsemtex

Sorry to stick this in motors but not really sure where to put it. Feel free to move to an appropriate section.

Am i entitled to a travel expense allowance? I'm spending roughly €4000 a year on traveling to work when petrol, road tax and tolls are included. Am i entitled to a tax credit for some of this?

Paying a toll of €1.90 each way to go 30miles really pisses me off. I (and the other road users obviously) am basically paying twice the tax of anyone else in the country to use a 12km stretch of road. Sickening really.

Could anyone fill me in on what if anything i can claim back from the revenue? Thanks in advance.

Redsoxfan

In short, no, you are not entitled to anything. If you travel from home to a client's premises or to a company meeting held outside your normal place of work, your employer can re-imburse you for the cost without attracting tax (as long as it's vouched, otherwise limits apply).

Surely you don't have to use a tolled road to get to work?

If public transport is an option and your employer is willing to sign up to the scheme, the cost of annual/monthly tickets is an allowable expense against your PAYE, PRSI and levies.

samsemtex

Thanks for the reply. Well no I dont have to use it but going the old road is a much less pleasant experience. I have to get up at 6.20am as it is and i dont get home till 7.30pm so I dont feel like making my day any longer than it has to be. However I do not think I should have to pay €740 more in road tax than other road users for the privilege of using a bog standard stretch of motorway.

There should definitely be some allowance for tolls considering how bloody expensive they are here.

Public transport an option?! Ha, public transport? What is that? I am completely unfamiliar with this concept. Please elaborate as to the meaning of this phrase.

A utterly pointless letter to a TD is in order me thinks.

colm_c

There are literally 100,000+ people paying tolls to go to work in this country so you're not really exceptional.

The M50 is 3 euro each way, that's 6 euro a day which is 1560 a year (5 days a week, 52 weeks a year).

Get one of those eflow tags they can work out cheaper.

samsemtex

colm_c wrote: »

There are literally 100,000+ people paying tolls to go to work in this country so you're not really exceptional.

The M50 is 3 euro each way, that's 6 euro a day which is 1560 a year (5 days a week, 52 weeks a year).

Get one of those eflow tags they can work out cheaper.

I never said i was the only one paying. I just think there should be a tax break for people paying tolls. The M50 toll is a disgraceful price. I suppose with the Greens in power there isnt a hope of a tax break being introduced as it "encourages" people to use public transport.

That means there are 2,400,000 road users NOT paying tolls to go to work.

Seth Brundle

You are making choices about how to get to work and unfortunately those choices involve spending money. Writing a letter to your TD would more than likely do sweet FA in the normal course of events but in this situation will just give them a laugh!

If there were tax breaks for toll payers, whats the point in having tolls then?

Victor

Oi really hate having to pay taxes and then to pay €1.60 on the bus. Loike Oi've paid for the bus already.

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You decide to use 100km of road per day, I use 8km. You drive by yourself, I car share with 50 people. You "paid less" for your property, pay for your tolls out of your savings on housing costs.

samsemtex

kbannon wrote: »

You are making choices about how to get to work and unfortunately those choices involve spending money. Writing a letter to your TD would more than likely do sweet FA in the normal course of events but in this situation will just give them a laugh!

If there were tax breaks for toll payers, whats the point in having tolls then?

why do you get rent allowance? Whats the difference? Im intrigued to know why people living near their place of work deserve a tax break yet people who drive to work dont deserve one?

samsemtex

Victor wrote: »

Oi really hate having to pay taxes and then to pay €1.60 on the bus. Loike Oi've paid for the bus already.

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You decide to use 100km of road per day, I use 8km. You drive by yourself, I car share with 50 people. You "paid less" for your property, pay for your tolls out of your savings on housing costs.

Ive paid taxes in petrol and road tax already. What tax have you paid for using the bus?

Cionád

samsemtex wrote: »

Ive paid taxes in petrol and road tax already. What tax have you paid for using the bus?

Income tax is one.

There is no road tax, there is a motor tax. And revenue from motor tax is not used exclusively for roads, in fact some of it will end up to subsidise public transport.

Victor

kbannon wrote: »

If there were tax breaks for toll payers, whats the point in having tolls then?

To subsidise toll companies, just like we subsidised bankers and property developers. Its not who receives the tax breaks, its who benefits from it.

samsemtex wrote: »

why do you get rent allowance? Whats the difference? Im intrigued to know why people living near their place of work deserve a tax break yet people who drive to work dont deserve one?

Because you are doing something that is considered economically undesireable.

samsemtex

Victor wrote: »

To subsidise toll companies, just like we subsidised bankers and property developers. Its not who receives the tax breaks, its who benefits from it.


Because you are doing something that is considered economically undesireable.

Yes, living in the countryside is so undesirable :rolleyes:

BillyBoyBad

Victor wrote: »

To subsidise toll companies, just like we subsidised bankers and property developers. Its not who receives the tax breaks, its who benefits from it.


Because you are doing something that is considered economically undesireable.

samsemtex wrote: »

Yes, living in the countryside is so undesirable :rolleyes:

Could we put away the handbags ladies?

The OP's question has been answered I think.