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Mileage Question

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  • 21-04-2016 2:37pm
    #1
    whatnext
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭


    I cant really see the answer to this on the revenue site

    Its a simple mileage question.

    I call into a site 3 time a week on my way home from my regular place of work. This only involves an extra 3km on my journey.

    But over the year that amounts to c. 360km or a little over €200 in mileage.

    Now as the journey was on my way home I never claimed mileage on it, but after 2 years and a possible further 2 years of the same coming up it begins to stack up.

    If I were to return to the office after each visit the mileage would be 24km per visit (round trip) or 2880km per annum (€1700 per year). Not the best use of time, but a lot of money none the less. My home is a further 45km from the site.

    Are there any guidance notes regarding mileage en-rout to the office. I tend to do meetings on the way to work or the way home to save on time and therefore would not have much mileage. But I seem to be missing out on a trick here.

    I am self employed - if that makes a difference.

    All I can find on revenue.ie is:
    Business Travel involving travel directly to/from home

    Where an employee proceeds on a business journey directly from home to a temporary place of work (rather than commencing that business journey from his/her normal place of work) or returns home directly, the business kilometres should be calculated by reference to the lesser of -

    the distance between home and the temporary place of work; or
    the distance between the normal place of work and the temporary place of work.


    I'm sure I cant be the first person to ask this, opinions sought among peers seem to imply that I can charge mileage at a rate of from the office and back as this is less than office to site then home.


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    #2
    Lockedout2
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭Lockedout2


    I am self employed!!!!

    You can't claim mileage!!!!

    You can claim for the costs incurred in running a motor vehicle for a year and then add back the personal element.


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    #3
    whatnext
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭whatnext


    Lockedout2 wrote: »
    I am self employed!!!!

    You can't claim mileage!!!!

    You can claim for the costs incurred in running a motor vehicle for a year and then add back the personal element.

    well that puts that to bed fairly quickly.


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