[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":2753},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-directors-claiming-mileage":3,"blog-related-directors-claiming-mileage":138},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":119,"date":120,"description":121,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":124,"imageAlt":125,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":127,"navigation":128,"path":129,"readTime":130,"seo":131,"stem":132,"tags":133,"__hash__":137},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fdirectors-claiming-mileage.md","Claiming mileage as a company director","The Milesheet Team",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":109},"minimark",[10,14,17,22,25,28,32,35,38,42,45,48,52,55,59,62,66,100,103],[11,12,13],"p",{},"If you run a limited company and drive your own car on its business, the company can pay you the approved mileage rates — 45p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, then 25p — and that payment is tax-free in your hands and deductible for the company.",[11,15,16],{},"It is one of the more efficient ways to take money out of a company. It is also one of the easiest to do sloppily.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"you-are-an-employee-here","You are an employee here",[11,23,24],{},"A director is an office holder, and for these purposes the same rules apply as to any employee. The car is yours, the company reimburses you for business journeys, and the approved rates are what it can pay without creating a tax charge.",[11,26,27],{},"Pay more than the approved rate and the excess is earnings, reportable and taxable. Pay less and you can claim relief on the shortfall personally, exactly as an employee would.",[18,29,31],{"id":30},"the-record-is-the-whole-thing","The record is the whole thing",[11,33,34],{},"Because you are both sides of this transaction, nobody else is checking your figures — which is precisely why the record needs to stand on its own.",[11,36,37],{},"What is expected is a journey-level log: date, from, to, purpose, distance. A monthly transfer from the company account described as \"mileage\" with no underlying detail is not a record, it is a payment. If the detail is missing, the payment starts to look like undeclared salary, and that is an expensive reclassification.",[18,39,41],{"id":40},"commuting-is-still-commuting","Commuting is still commuting",[11,43,44],{},"Owning the company does not change the rule. Travel from home to your permanent workplace is ordinary commuting whether the workplace belongs to your employer or to you.",[11,46,47],{},"If you genuinely work from home and the company has no other premises, the position is different — but \"the company is registered at my house\" does not by itself make every drive claimable. This is worth getting right, because it applies to a lot of journeys repeated a lot of times.",[18,49,51],{"id":50},"company-car-versus-your-own","Company car versus your own",[11,53,54],{},"If instead the company buys the car, none of the above applies: the vehicle is a benefit in kind with its own charge, and fuel is handled through Advisory Fuel Rates rather than approved mileage rates. Which is better depends on the car's value, its emissions and your mileage, and it is one of the few genuinely worthwhile conversations to have with an accountant.",[18,56,58],{"id":57},"keeping-it-simple","Keeping it simple",[11,60,61],{},"Record every journey as it happens, mark it business or personal, tag home and any permanent workplace so commuting is excluded automatically, and export the year as a CSV. Then the mileage the company paid you and the mileage you can evidence are the same number, which is the whole point.",[18,63,65],{"id":64},"sources","Sources",[67,68,69,79,86,93],"ul",{},[70,71,72],"li",{},[73,74,78],"a",{"href":75,"rel":76},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fexpenses-and-benefits-business-travel-mileage",[77],"nofollow","HMRC — Business travel mileage for employees' own vehicles",[70,80,81],{},[73,82,85],{"href":83,"rel":84},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fpublications\u002Frates-and-allowances-travel-mileage-and-fuel-allowances\u002Ftravel-mileage-and-fuel-rates-and-allowances",[77],"HMRC — Travel, mileage and fuel rates and allowances",[70,87,88],{},[73,89,92],{"href":90,"rel":91},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fguidance\u002Fadvisory-fuel-rates",[77],"HMRC — Advisory fuel rates",[70,94,95],{},[73,96,99],{"href":97,"rel":98},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fpublications\u002F490-employee-travel-a-tax-and-nics-guide",[77],"HMRC — 490: Employee travel, a tax and NICs guide",[101,102],"hr",{},[11,104,105],{},[106,107,108],"em",{},"General information, not tax advice. Director remuneration has knock-on effects: take proper advice on the whole picture.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":112},"",2,[113,114,115,116,117,118],{"id":20,"depth":111,"text":21},{"id":30,"depth":111,"text":31},{"id":40,"depth":111,"text":41},{"id":50,"depth":111,"text":51},{"id":57,"depth":111,"text":58},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"HMRC & tax","2026-02-12","Your own car, your own company, and the paperwork that keeps 45p a mile out of the taxman's definition of salary.",false,"md","\u002Fblog\u002Fplaceholder.svg","Placeholder image",null,{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fdirectors-claiming-mileage",4,{"title":5,"description":121},"blog\u002Fdirectors-claiming-mileage",[134,135,136],"limited company","directors","hmrc","nlwHsnGbG83jqpY1PsZmOdh1irnXjy4_7LAj-U1GVps",[139,354,508,690,845,960,1110,1244,1388,1514,1648,1775,1879,1994,2111,2210,2337,2411,2515,2641],{"id":140,"title":141,"author":6,"body":142,"category":119,"date":341,"description":342,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":343,"imageAlt":344,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":128,"meta":345,"navigation":128,"path":346,"readTime":347,"seo":348,"stem":349,"tags":350,"__hash__":353},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhmrc-mileage-rates-explained.md","HMRC mileage rates explained: 45p, 25p and the 10,000-mile line",{"type":8,"value":143,"toc":333},[144,147,151,205,213,217,224,227,231,234,237,254,257,264,268,275,279,282,285,287,326,328],[11,145,146],{},"If you use your own car for work, HMRC lets you be paid a set amount per mile without any of it counting as taxable pay. These are the Approved Mileage Allowance Payments, and they have not changed since 2011.",[18,148,150],{"id":149},"the-rates","The rates",[152,153,154,170],"table",{},[155,156,157],"thead",{},[158,159,160,164,167],"tr",{},[161,162,163],"th",{},"Vehicle",[161,165,166],{},"First 10,000 business miles",[161,168,169],{},"Above 10,000",[171,172,173,185,195],"tbody",{},[158,174,175,179,182],{},[176,177,178],"td",{},"Cars and vans",[176,180,181],{},"45p per mile",[176,183,184],{},"25p per mile",[158,186,187,190,193],{},[176,188,189],{},"Motorcycles",[176,191,192],{},"24p per mile",[176,194,192],{},[158,196,197,200,203],{},[176,198,199],{},"Bicycles",[176,201,202],{},"20p per mile",[176,204,202],{},[11,206,207,208,212],{},"There is also a ",[209,210,211],"strong",{},"passenger rate",": 5p per mile for each colleague you carry on the same business journey. It is one of the most commonly missed parts of a claim, partly because you have to be able to say who was in the car and where you went.",[18,214,216],{"id":215},"the-10000-mile-line-is-per-tax-year-not-per-car","The 10,000-mile line is per tax year, not per car",[11,218,219,220,223],{},"This is where people slip up. The threshold resets on 6 April each year, and it counts ",[209,221,222],{},"all your business miles across every car and van you use",", not each vehicle separately. Two cars doing 6,000 business miles each is 12,000 miles: the first 10,000 at 45p, the last 2,000 at 25p.",[11,225,226],{},"The other subtlety: a single journey can straddle the line. If you hit 10,000 miles halfway through a 40-mile drive, the first 20 miles are worth 45p and the rest 25p. Any log worth keeping should split that trip rather than round the whole thing one way or the other.",[18,228,230],{"id":229},"what-if-your-employer-pays-less-than-45p","What if your employer pays less than 45p?",[11,232,233],{},"Very common, and worth money. If your employer pays you 25p a mile, you can claim tax relief on the difference between what you were paid and the approved rate. That is Mileage Allowance Relief, and you claim it through your Self Assessment return or a P87 if you do not file one.",[11,235,236],{},"Say you drove 4,000 business miles and were paid 25p:",[67,238,239,245,248],{},[70,240,241,242],{},"Approved amount: 4,000 × 45p = ",[209,243,244],{},"£1,800",[70,246,247],{},"Actually paid: 4,000 × 25p = £1,000",[70,249,250,251],{},"Relief due on: ",[209,252,253],{},"£800",[11,255,256],{},"You do not get £800 back. You get tax relief on £800, so a basic-rate taxpayer sees around £160. Still worth the ten minutes it takes to claim, and considerably more if your mileage is higher.",[11,258,259,260,263],{},"If your employer pays you ",[209,261,262],{},"more"," than the approved rate, the excess is taxable and should appear on your P11D.",[18,265,267],{"id":266},"if-you-drive-a-company-car-these-rates-are-not-yours","If you drive a company car, these rates are not yours",[11,269,270,271,274],{},"Approved mileage rates apply to your own vehicle. If the car belongs to the company, fuel is handled through ",[209,272,273],{},"Advisory Fuel Rates"," instead, which are lower, vary by engine size and fuel type, and are revised quarterly. Mixing the two up is the single most expensive mistake we see people make on a claim.",[18,276,278],{"id":277},"what-actually-needs-recording","What actually needs recording",[11,280,281],{},"For each business journey: the date, where you went and where from, why it was business, and how far it was. Keep the running total for the tax year so the banding is right, and hold on to the records for at least 22 months after the end of the tax year if you are employed, or five years after the filing deadline if you are self-employed.",[11,283,284],{},"That is precisely the job Milesheet does in the background: it records the journey as you drive, bands each trip against your running total for the year, and keeps the whole lot exportable as a PDF or CSV.",[18,286,65],{"id":64},[67,288,289,294,299,306,313,319],{},[70,290,291],{},[73,292,85],{"href":83,"rel":293},[77],[70,295,296],{},[73,297,78],{"href":75,"rel":298},[77],[70,300,301],{},[73,302,305],{"href":303,"rel":304},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Ftax-relief-for-employees\u002Fvehicles-you-use-for-work",[77],"HMRC — Claim tax relief for your job expenses: vehicles you use for work",[70,307,308],{},[73,309,312],{"href":310,"rel":311},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fguidance\u002Fclaim-income-tax-relief-for-your-employment-expenses-p87",[77],"HMRC — Claim Income Tax relief for employment expenses (P87)",[70,314,315],{},[73,316,318],{"href":90,"rel":317},[77],"HMRC — Advisory fuel rates (company cars)",[70,320,321],{},[73,322,325],{"href":323,"rel":324},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fself-assessment-tax-returns\u002Fkeeping-records",[77],"HMRC — Self Assessment: keeping your records",[101,327],{},[11,329,330],{},[106,331,332],{},"Rates and thresholds are correct at the time of writing and apply to the UK. This is general information, not tax advice: check with HMRC or your accountant before you file.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":334},[335,336,337,338,339,340],{"id":149,"depth":111,"text":150},{"id":215,"depth":111,"text":216},{"id":229,"depth":111,"text":230},{"id":266,"depth":111,"text":267},{"id":277,"depth":111,"text":278},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-08-12","What the approved mileage rates actually are, how the 10,000-mile threshold works across a tax year, and the bit almost everyone gets wrong.","\u002Fshots\u002Finsights.png","The HMRC claim for the tax year in Milesheet, with progress towards the 10,000-mile threshold",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhmrc-mileage-rates-explained",5,{"title":141,"description":342},"blog\u002Fhmrc-mileage-rates-explained",[136,351,352],"rates","claims","JrLyZLsIYzNCT37LGRuGgNBPr7IFEQH5m1_4sC_zWZA",{"id":355,"title":356,"author":6,"body":357,"category":119,"date":496,"description":497,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":498,"imageAlt":499,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":128,"meta":500,"navigation":128,"path":501,"readTime":347,"seo":502,"stem":503,"tags":504,"__hash__":507},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-counts-as-a-business-mile.md","What actually counts as a business mile?",{"type":8,"value":358,"toc":487},[359,362,366,373,376,380,387,398,402,419,423,437,441,444,448,451,454,456,480,482],[11,360,361],{},"Most underclaimed mileage is not fraud in reverse, it is uncertainty. People are not sure which drives count, so they leave off the ones they could have claimed and add up the rest badly. Here is the line, in plain terms.",[18,363,365],{"id":364},"the-commute-does-not-count","The commute does not count",[11,367,368,369,372],{},"Travel between your home and your ",[209,370,371],{},"permanent workplace"," is ordinary commuting, and it is never business travel. It does not matter that you left at six in the morning, or that you carried equipment, or that you went in on a Sunday.",[11,374,375],{},"A permanent workplace is somewhere you attend regularly for your work, in a way that is not temporary or one-off.",[18,377,379],{"id":378},"temporary-workplaces-do-count","Temporary workplaces do count",[11,381,382,383,386],{},"Travel to a ",[209,384,385],{},"temporary workplace"," is business travel, and this is where the claims live. A workplace is temporary if you go there to do a task of limited duration, or for a temporary purpose.",[11,388,389,390,393,394,397],{},"The catch is the ",[209,391,392],{},"24-month rule",". If you expect to spend more than 40% of your working time at a site for more than 24 months, it stops being temporary. Importantly, it stops the moment you ",[106,395,396],{},"expect"," that to be true, not when the 24 months elapse. A contract extension can retrospectively change what you should have been claiming.",[18,399,401],{"id":400},"journeys-that-usually-count","Journeys that usually count",[67,403,404,407,410,413,416],{},[70,405,406],{},"Driving to a client, a customer, a supplier or a site",[70,408,409],{},"Travelling between two workplaces on the same day",[70,411,412],{},"Going from home directly to a temporary site, if you are not going via the office",[70,414,415],{},"Driving to a conference, training course or trade show your work requires",[70,417,418],{},"A trip to the bank, the post office or the wholesaler for the business, if you are self-employed",[18,420,422],{"id":421},"journeys-that-usually-do-not","Journeys that usually do not",[67,424,425,428,431,434],{},[70,426,427],{},"Home to your usual office, in any circumstances",[70,429,430],{},"A detour for something personal, for the personal part of the distance",[70,432,433],{},"Taking a colleague home after work, unless it is part of a business journey",[70,435,436],{},"Driving somewhere purely social, even with people from work",[18,438,440],{"id":439},"the-awkward-middle-home-as-a-workplace","The awkward middle: home as a workplace",[11,442,443],{},"If you genuinely work from home as a requirement of the job, journeys from home to a client can be business travel. But HMRC looks carefully at whether home is a workplace by objective necessity or just where you choose to sit. Working from home three days a week by preference does not turn your Thursday commute into a business mile.",[18,445,447],{"id":446},"why-the-recording-matters-more-than-the-rules","Why the recording matters more than the rules",[11,449,450],{},"Two people can drive identical routes and only one of them can claim, because only one of them can say what the journey was for. A date, a start, an end, a distance and a reason is what turns a drive into a claim. Reconstructing that from memory in April is where accuracy goes to die.",[11,452,453],{},"That is why Milesheet asks one question and only one: business or personal. It already knows the date, the route, the distance and how long you were stopped. You just tell it what the drive was for, ideally on the same day, when you can still remember.",[18,455,65],{"id":64},[67,457,458,463,470,475],{},[70,459,460],{},[73,461,99],{"href":97,"rel":462},[77],[70,464,465],{},[73,466,469],{"href":467,"rel":468},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fhmrc-internal-manuals\u002Femployment-income-manual\u002Feim31815",[77],"HMRC — Employment Income Manual EIM31815: temporary workplace",[70,471,472],{},[73,473,305],{"href":303,"rel":474},[77],[70,476,477],{},[73,478,78],{"href":75,"rel":479},[77],[101,481],{},[11,483,484],{},[106,485,486],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. If your situation is unusual, particularly around temporary workplaces, take proper advice.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":488},[489,490,491,492,493,494,495],{"id":364,"depth":111,"text":365},{"id":378,"depth":111,"text":379},{"id":400,"depth":111,"text":401},{"id":421,"depth":111,"text":422},{"id":439,"depth":111,"text":440},{"id":446,"depth":111,"text":447},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-08-05","The commute trap, the temporary workplace rule, and the everyday journeys people wrongly leave off their claim.","\u002Fshots\u002Flocations.png","Tagging places as home, workplace, business or personal in Milesheet",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-counts-as-a-business-mile",{"title":356,"description":497},"blog\u002Fwhat-counts-as-a-business-mile",[136,505,506],"business travel","commuting","xZ4aBmQ9736Uj-pHbKk-M239GtWQbk44v-L0bdKvi8E",{"id":509,"title":510,"author":6,"body":511,"category":119,"date":678,"description":679,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":680,"imageAlt":681,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":128,"meta":682,"navigation":128,"path":683,"readTime":347,"seo":684,"stem":685,"tags":686,"__hash__":689},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fmileage-log-that-stands-up.md","How to keep a mileage log that stands up",{"type":8,"value":512,"toc":670},[513,516,520,523,553,556,560,574,577,581,584,590,596,602,606,609,612,616,619,634,637,639,663,665],[11,514,515],{},"A mileage claim is only as good as the record behind it. If someone asks you to justify 8,400 business miles two years after the fact, you want a log that answers the question rather than a number you once believed.",[18,517,519],{"id":518},"what-a-record-should-contain","What a record should contain",[11,521,522],{},"For every business journey:",[67,524,525,531,536,542,547],{},[70,526,527,530],{},[209,528,529],{},"The date"," it happened",[70,532,533],{},[209,534,535],{},"Where you started and where you finished",[70,537,538,541],{},[209,539,540],{},"Why it was business",", in enough words to jog a memory",[70,543,544],{},[209,545,546],{},"How far you went",[70,548,549,552],{},[209,550,551],{},"Which vehicle"," you used, if you have more than one",[11,554,555],{},"Add a running total for the tax year and you can prove the 45p and 25p banding is right, which is the part reconstructed logs almost always get wrong.",[18,557,559],{"id":558},"how-long-to-keep-it","How long to keep it",[67,561,562,568],{},[70,563,564,567],{},[209,565,566],{},"Employees"," claiming Mileage Allowance Relief: at least 22 months after the end of the tax year the claim relates to.",[70,569,570,573],{},[209,571,572],{},"Self-employed",": at least five years after the 31 January filing deadline for that tax year.",[11,575,576],{},"Keep the record in a form you can still open. A note on a phone you no longer own is not a record.",[18,578,580],{"id":579},"why-the-april-spreadsheet-is-the-weak-version","Why the April spreadsheet is the weak version",[11,582,583],{},"Three things go wrong when you write it all up at the end of the year.",[11,585,586,589],{},[209,587,588],{},"Memory."," You remember the big trips and forget the twenty-mile round trip to a supplier in October. Those are the miles you paid for and never claimed.",[11,591,592,595],{},[209,593,594],{},"Distance."," Postcode-to-postcode estimates are not the same as the route you drove. Sometimes that is in your favour, sometimes it is not, and either way it is not evidence.",[11,597,598,601],{},[209,599,600],{},"Banding."," Fill in the mileage in one lump and the 10,000-mile threshold gets applied to the total rather than to journeys in date order. If your driving is at all seasonal, that number is wrong.",[18,603,605],{"id":604},"the-habit-that-fixes-it","The habit that fixes it",[11,607,608],{},"Record as you go, and sort promptly. Anything that captures the drive at the time — an app, a notebook in the glovebox, a note dictated at the traffic lights — beats a perfect spreadsheet built from memory.",[11,610,611],{},"If you use Milesheet, this is the whole design: the journey is recorded while it happens, and the only question left is business or personal. It bands each trip against your running total for the tax year, keeps a per-trip and per-month record, and exports the lot as a PDF or CSV that reads like something you could hand to an accountant, because that is what it is for.",[18,613,615],{"id":614},"a-quick-self-test","A quick self-test",[11,617,618],{},"Pick a random week from three months ago. Can you say, without guessing:",[620,621,622,625,628,631],"ol",{},[70,623,624],{},"Which drives you made for work?",[70,626,627],{},"Where each one started and ended?",[70,629,630],{},"How far each one was?",[70,632,633],{},"Why it was business?",[11,635,636],{},"If the answer is no, your log is not a log yet. That is entirely fixable, and the fix takes about ten seconds a day.",[18,638,65],{"id":64},[67,640,641,646,651,656],{},[70,642,643],{},[73,644,325],{"href":323,"rel":645},[77],[70,647,648],{},[73,649,85],{"href":83,"rel":650},[77],[70,652,653],{},[73,654,99],{"href":97,"rel":655},[77],[70,657,658],{},[73,659,662],{"href":660,"rel":661},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fexpenses-if-youre-self-employed\u002Fvehicles",[77],"HMRC — Expenses if you're self-employed: vehicles",[101,664],{},[11,666,667],{},[106,668,669],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":671},[672,673,674,675,676,677],{"id":518,"depth":111,"text":519},{"id":558,"depth":111,"text":559},{"id":579,"depth":111,"text":580},{"id":604,"depth":111,"text":605},{"id":614,"depth":111,"text":615},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-07-24","What HMRC expects a mileage record to contain, how long to keep it, and why the spreadsheet you fill in every April is the weakest version of it.","\u002Fshots\u002Ftrips.png","A month of journeys in Milesheet, each with date, route and distance",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmileage-log-that-stands-up",{"title":510,"description":679},"blog\u002Fmileage-log-that-stands-up",[136,687,688],"records","self assessment","6-viIgkfTI1X921fbLpHvzPNCVeHkShgg93lQQOAKDU",{"id":691,"title":692,"author":6,"body":693,"category":119,"date":835,"description":836,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":837,"navigation":128,"path":838,"readTime":130,"seo":839,"stem":840,"tags":841,"__hash__":844},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fparking-tolls-and-charges.md","Parking, tolls and charges: what else you can claim",{"type":8,"value":694,"toc":828},[695,698,702,734,737,741,771,775,778,781,784,788,799,802,804,821,823],[11,696,697],{},"The approved mileage rate covers the cost of running the car: fuel, wear, servicing, insurance, depreciation. It does not cover what you spend on the way. Those are separate, claimable, and routinely forgotten.",[18,699,701],{"id":700},"costs-that-usually-go-on-top","Costs that usually go on top",[67,703,704,710,716,722,728],{},[70,705,706,709],{},[209,707,708],{},"Parking"," at the destination of a business journey",[70,711,712,715],{},[209,713,714],{},"Tolls"," and bridge charges",[70,717,718,721],{},[209,719,720],{},"Congestion charge",", where the journey was business",[70,723,724,727],{},[209,725,726],{},"Clean-air and low-emission zone charges"," for a business trip",[70,729,730,733],{},[209,731,732],{},"Ferry crossings"," where they form part of the journey",[11,735,736],{},"Each of these is claimable in its own right, in addition to the pence-per-mile. Keep the receipt and note which journey it belongs to.",[18,738,740],{"id":739},"costs-that-do-not","Costs that do not",[67,742,743,749,755,765],{},[70,744,745,748],{},[209,746,747],{},"Parking fines and speeding tickets."," Never allowable, however the ticket came about.",[70,750,751,754],{},[209,752,753],{},"Anything on your commute."," If the journey is not business travel, its parking is not either.",[70,756,757,760,761,764],{},[209,758,759],{},"Fuel, on top of mileage."," You cannot claim the approved rate ",[106,762,763],{},"and"," the petrol. The rate already includes it. Claiming both is a genuine and expensive error.",[70,766,767,770],{},[209,768,769],{},"Personal detours."," If you paid to park while doing something personal, that is yours.",[18,772,774],{"id":773},"the-evidence-problem","The evidence problem",[11,776,777],{},"Parking is where records fall apart, because so much of it is now a card tap or an app payment with no paper at all. Three months later you have a bank line that says \"RingGo\" and no idea which site it was or why you were there.",[11,779,780],{},"The fix is to capture it at the moment of payment. A photo of the receipt or the machine, attached to the journey it belongs to, does the job. If there is no paper, note the amount and the reason while you are still standing there.",[11,782,783],{},"Milesheet keeps these against the trip itself: pick the type, enter the amount, and add a photo if you have one. The photo is copied into the app's own storage, so it survives you clearing out your camera roll. The totals then flow through into your monthly and tax-year statements, and appear as their own section in the exported PDF, clearly separated from the mileage claim.",[18,785,787],{"id":786},"if-you-are-self-employed","If you are self-employed",[11,789,790,791,794,795,798],{},"You have a choice per vehicle: ",[209,792,793],{},"simplified expenses"," (the flat pence-per-mile) or ",[209,796,797],{},"actual costs"," (a business proportion of fuel, insurance, servicing, capital allowances and so on). You cannot mix the two for the same vehicle, and once you have chosen for a particular car you must keep to that method for as long as you have it.",[11,800,801],{},"Parking, tolls and charges sit outside that choice: they are claimable either way.",[18,803,65],{"id":64},[67,805,806,811,816],{},[70,807,808],{},[73,809,662],{"href":660,"rel":810},[77],[70,812,813],{},[73,814,78],{"href":75,"rel":815},[77],[70,817,818],{},[73,819,305],{"href":303,"rel":820},[77],[101,822],{},[11,824,825],{},[106,826,827],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Check anything unusual with HMRC or your accountant.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":829},[830,831,832,833,834],{"id":700,"depth":111,"text":701},{"id":739,"depth":111,"text":740},{"id":773,"depth":111,"text":774},{"id":786,"depth":111,"text":787},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-07-02","Mileage is not the whole claim. The out-of-pocket costs that ride along with a business journey, and the ones that never qualify.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fparking-tolls-and-charges",{"title":692,"description":836},"blog\u002Fparking-tolls-and-charges",[136,842,843],"expenses","receipts","Ogwrou2t6YXlFGKiOC1x66f-rhmJbWsvXG5QGB8cfGQ",{"id":846,"title":847,"author":6,"body":848,"category":119,"date":949,"description":950,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":951,"navigation":128,"path":952,"readTime":953,"seo":954,"stem":955,"tags":956,"__hash__":959},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fmotorcycle-and-bicycle-mileage-rates.md","The 24p and 20p rates almost nobody claims",{"type":8,"value":849,"toc":942},[850,853,855,872,879,883,886,889,892,896,903,906,910,913,916,918,935,937],[11,851,852],{},"Everyone knows the 45p car rate. Far fewer know that HMRC publishes approved rates for motorcycles and bicycles too, and that they behave differently in a way that works in your favour.",[18,854,150],{"id":149},[67,856,857,862,867],{},[70,858,859,861],{},[209,860,178],{}," — 45p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, then 25p",[70,863,864,866],{},[209,865,189],{}," — 24p a mile, flat",[70,868,869,871],{},[209,870,199],{}," — 20p a mile, flat",[11,873,874,875,878],{},"The important word is ",[106,876,877],{},"flat",". The 10,000-mile threshold that drops car mileage to 25p does not apply to motorcycles or bicycles. Ride 15,000 business miles on a motorbike and every one of them is 24p.",[18,880,882],{"id":881},"why-the-bicycle-rate-gets-ignored","Why the bicycle rate gets ignored",[11,884,885],{},"Because it sounds trivial. It is worth doing the arithmetic before you decide that.",[11,887,888],{},"A four-mile round trip to a client twice a week is roughly 400 business miles a year. At 20p that is £80 of allowance for journeys most people would never think to record. If you are an employee whose employer pays nothing, that becomes tax relief on £80 — not life-changing, but it costs you nothing to have counted it.",[11,890,891],{},"For couriers, tradespeople doing local calls, or anyone in a city where the bike genuinely is the sensible vehicle, the numbers get considerably more interesting.",[18,893,895],{"id":894},"the-same-rules-still-apply","The same rules still apply",[11,897,898,899,902],{},"None of this changes what counts as business travel. A cycle commute from home to a permanent workplace is ordinary commuting and is not claimable, exactly as it would be in a car. The journey has to be travel ",[106,900,901],{},"in the performance of your duties",", or to a temporary workplace.",[11,904,905],{},"You also cannot claim the bicycle rate for a bike provided through Cycle to Work, on journeys where the employer is already covering the cost.",[18,907,909],{"id":908},"recording-them","Recording them",[11,911,912],{},"The evidence HMRC expects is the same whatever you were riding: the date, where you went and came from, why it was business, and the distance. That is the awkward part on a bike, because there is no odometer to photograph and nobody wants to stop and write things down.",[11,914,915],{},"Milesheet records the journey by GPS regardless of what you were on, so a bike trip logs itself the same way a drive does. Set the vehicle up with its own rate and the claim adds up correctly against the flat rate rather than the banded car one.",[18,917,65],{"id":64},[67,919,920,925,930],{},[70,921,922],{},[73,923,85],{"href":83,"rel":924},[77],[70,926,927],{},[73,928,305],{"href":303,"rel":929},[77],[70,931,932],{},[73,933,99],{"href":97,"rel":934},[77],[101,936],{},[11,938,939],{},[106,940,941],{},"General information for UK drivers and riders, not tax advice.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":943},[944,945,946,947,948],{"id":149,"depth":111,"text":150},{"id":881,"depth":111,"text":882},{"id":894,"depth":111,"text":895},{"id":908,"depth":111,"text":909},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-05-28","Motorcycles and bicycles have their own approved mileage rates, they are not banded at 10,000 miles, and most people who could claim them never do.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmotorcycle-and-bicycle-mileage-rates",3,{"title":847,"description":950},"blog\u002Fmotorcycle-and-bicycle-mileage-rates",[136,957,958],"motorcycle","cycling","JFKsoX2q8VKAcOz0nWSUgUEn8MfgYV9fcoijkAqVeeQ",{"id":961,"title":962,"author":6,"body":963,"category":119,"date":1101,"description":1102,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":498,"imageAlt":1103,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":128,"meta":1104,"navigation":128,"path":1105,"readTime":347,"seo":1106,"stem":1107,"tags":1108,"__hash__":1109},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-24-month-rule-explained.md","The 24-month rule, in plain English",{"type":8,"value":964,"toc":1093},[965,973,977,991,994,998,1005,1012,1019,1022,1026,1029,1032,1036,1039,1042,1046,1049,1064,1067,1069,1086,1088],[11,966,382,967,969,970,972],{},[209,968,385],{}," is claimable. Travel to a ",[209,971,371],{}," is ordinary commuting and is not. The 24-month rule is how HMRC decides which one you are looking at, and it catches people out because it works on expectation rather than hindsight.",[18,974,976],{"id":975},"the-rule","The rule",[11,978,979,980,983,984,986,987,990],{},"A workplace stops being temporary when you have attended it, or expect to attend it, for ",[209,981,982],{},"more than 24 months",", ",[106,985,763],{}," your attendance is for a ",[209,988,989],{},"significant part"," of your working time.",[11,992,993],{},"Both halves matter. Two years on a site three days a week is caught. Two years popping in once a quarter is not.",[18,995,997],{"id":996},"the-part-that-surprises-people","The part that surprises people",[11,999,1000,1001,1004],{},"It is not \"you can claim for the first 24 months and then stop\". The test is about ",[209,1002,1003],{},"expectation",".",[11,1006,1007,1008,1011],{},"If you take an assignment that everyone knows from day one will run for three years, the workplace is permanent from the ",[106,1009,1010],{},"first day",". There is no 24 months of allowable travel followed by a cut-off. It was never temporary.",[11,1013,1014,1015,1018],{},"Conversely, if a six-month contract keeps being extended and at month 20 it becomes clear it will run past two years, the travel stops being claimable ",[209,1016,1017],{},"from the point your expectation changed"," — not from month 24.",[11,1020,1021],{},"That is the trap. The clock is not counting your journeys. It is measuring what you reasonably expected.",[18,1023,1025],{"id":1024},"significant-part-of-your-working-time","\"Significant part of your working time\"",[11,1027,1028],{},"HMRC does not fix a percentage in the legislation, but 40% of your working time is the figure used in practice as the rule of thumb. Below that, a workplace can remain temporary even beyond 24 months.",[11,1030,1031],{},"This is what makes the occasional-visit case genuinely different from the four-days-a-week case, and why two people on the same contract can get different answers.",[18,1033,1035],{"id":1034},"why-it-is-worth-getting-right","Why it is worth getting right",[11,1037,1038],{},"The sums are not small. Someone driving 30 miles each way to a site four days a week covers roughly 12,000 business miles a year. At the approved rates, that is a little over £5,000 of allowance. Claiming it when the workplace was in fact permanent is the kind of error that gets expensive if it is repeated across several years.",[11,1040,1041],{},"Getting it wrong the other way — assuming a site is permanent when it qualified as temporary — is just money left behind.",[18,1043,1045],{"id":1044},"what-to-do-about-it","What to do about it",[11,1047,1048],{},"Keep the record either way. A journey you did not log cannot be claimed later if it turns out you were entitled, and a journey you logged but did not claim costs you nothing.",[11,1050,1051,1052,1055,1056,1059,1060,1063],{},"In Milesheet, tag a genuinely permanent workplace as ",[209,1053,1054],{},"Workplace"," and your house as ",[209,1057,1058],{},"Home",": those journeys are then recognised as ordinary commuting and kept out of your claim automatically, while staying in your records. Tag a temporary site as ",[209,1061,1062],{},"Business"," instead, and it counts.",[11,1065,1066],{},"If the status of a site changes — an extension lands, the expectation shifts — change the tag from that date. The history stays intact and the claim adjusts.",[18,1068,65],{"id":64},[67,1070,1071,1076,1081],{},[70,1072,1073],{},[73,1074,99],{"href":97,"rel":1075},[77],[70,1077,1078],{},[73,1079,469],{"href":467,"rel":1080},[77],[70,1082,1083],{},[73,1084,305],{"href":303,"rel":1085},[77],[101,1087],{},[11,1089,1090],{},[106,1091,1092],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. The 24-month rule turns on the facts of your case: if a site is close to the line, take proper advice.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1094},[1095,1096,1097,1098,1099,1100],{"id":975,"depth":111,"text":976},{"id":996,"depth":111,"text":997},{"id":1024,"depth":111,"text":1025},{"id":1034,"depth":111,"text":1035},{"id":1044,"depth":111,"text":1045},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-05-21","When a temporary workplace quietly becomes a permanent one, why the clock can start before you notice, and what it costs when it does.","Tagging a regular site as a workplace in Milesheet",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-24-month-rule-explained",{"title":962,"description":1102},"blog\u002Fthe-24-month-rule-explained",[136,385,505],"cl58ZQaCFpYrQv8Hk1osdmc_K2CRioO71E3ehoCVYzk",{"id":1111,"title":1112,"author":6,"body":1113,"category":119,"date":1235,"description":1236,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":1237,"navigation":128,"path":1238,"readTime":953,"seo":1239,"stem":1240,"tags":1241,"__hash__":1243},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fpassenger-payments-5p-a-mile.md","The 5p a mile almost every claim misses",{"type":8,"value":1114,"toc":1227},[1115,1122,1126,1129,1132,1136,1139,1150,1157,1160,1164,1167,1171,1189,1192,1196,1199,1202,1204,1221,1223],[11,1116,1117,1118,1121],{},"If you carry a colleague on a business journey, HMRC's approved rates include an extra ",[209,1119,1120],{},"5p per passenger per mile",". Almost nobody claims it, for two reasons: it is easy not to know about, and it works differently from the main rate.",[18,1123,1125],{"id":1124},"how-it-works","How it works",[11,1127,1128],{},"The passenger payment is 5p a mile for each fellow employee who is also travelling on business. It is not banded — the 10,000-mile threshold that drops your car rate to 25p does not touch it. Every passenger mile is 5p, all year.",[11,1130,1131],{},"Two colleagues in the car for a 120-mile round trip is £12 on top of the mileage itself. Do that fortnightly and it is over £300 a year that most people never record.",[18,1133,1135],{"id":1134},"the-catch-employees-need-to-know","The catch employees need to know",[11,1137,1138],{},"Here is where it differs from the main rate, and why it is worth understanding before you rely on it.",[11,1140,1141,1142,1145,1146,1149],{},"If your employer pays you a passenger payment, up to 5p a mile is tax-free. But if your employer pays you ",[209,1143,1144],{},"nothing"," for carrying passengers, you ",[209,1147,1148],{},"cannot"," claim tax relief on the difference the way you can with the main mileage rate.",[11,1151,1152,1153,1156],{},"Mileage Allowance Relief covers the gap between what you were paid and the approved rate for the ",[106,1154,1155],{},"vehicle",". It does not extend to passenger payments. If the employer does not pay it, there is nothing to claim.",[11,1158,1159],{},"That makes this one worth raising with your employer rather than saving up for your tax return. Many will pay it once asked, because it costs them little and is tax-free up to 5p.",[18,1161,1163],{"id":1162},"for-the-self-employed","For the self-employed",[11,1165,1166],{},"Different picture. If you are self-employed and using simplified expenses, the mileage rate you claim is for the vehicle and its running costs — there is no separate passenger element to add, because you are claiming your own costs rather than being reimbursed by an employer.",[18,1168,1170],{"id":1169},"the-conditions","The conditions",[67,1172,1173,1179,1186],{},[70,1174,1175,1176],{},"The passenger must be a ",[209,1177,1178],{},"fellow employee",[70,1180,1181,1182,1185],{},"They must also be travelling ",[209,1183,1184],{},"on business",", not being dropped somewhere convenient",[70,1187,1188],{},"It applies to the same journey, in your own vehicle",[11,1190,1191],{},"A spouse, a client or a friend does not count, however useful the lift was.",[18,1193,1195],{"id":1194},"recording-it","Recording it",[11,1197,1198],{},"The evidence is the journey plus who was in the car. Milesheet lets you add passengers to a trip, works out the payment at 5p a mile per head, and shows it alongside the mileage claim — so if your employer does pay it, the number is already there rather than being reconstructed from memory at year end.",[11,1200,1201],{},"The same passenger count also drives the fuel split for personal journeys, which is a different calculation for a different purpose, but the same question: who was actually in the car.",[18,1203,65],{"id":64},[67,1205,1206,1211,1216],{},[70,1207,1208],{},[73,1209,85],{"href":83,"rel":1210},[77],[70,1212,1213],{},[73,1214,78],{"href":75,"rel":1215},[77],[70,1217,1218],{},[73,1219,305],{"href":303,"rel":1220},[77],[101,1222],{},[11,1224,1225],{},[106,1226,669],{},{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1228},[1229,1230,1231,1232,1233,1234],{"id":1124,"depth":111,"text":1125},{"id":1134,"depth":111,"text":1135},{"id":1162,"depth":111,"text":1163},{"id":1169,"depth":111,"text":1170},{"id":1194,"depth":111,"text":1195},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-05-14","HMRC pays extra for carrying colleagues on business journeys. It is optional for employers, invisible to most people, and adds up faster than you would think.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fpassenger-payments-5p-a-mile",{"title":1112,"description":1236},"blog\u002Fpassenger-payments-5p-a-mile",[136,1242,505],"passengers","uTTzzmWdULf3lF9_ZIJS8sf5a8sWpvhcw5ZCgsOYRoQ",{"id":1245,"title":1246,"author":6,"body":1247,"category":119,"date":1379,"description":1380,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":1381,"navigation":128,"path":1382,"readTime":347,"seo":1383,"stem":1384,"tags":1385,"__hash__":1387},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsimplified-expenses-vs-actual-costs.md","Mileage rate or actual costs: which is worth more to you",{"type":8,"value":1248,"toc":1372},[1249,1252,1256,1262,1268,1272,1279,1282,1285,1289,1292,1306,1309,1323,1326,1330,1336,1339,1341,1365,1367],[11,1250,1251],{},"If you are self-employed, you can deduct the cost of business driving one of two ways. Choosing well is worth real money, and the choice is stickier than most people realise.",[18,1253,1255],{"id":1254},"the-two-options","The two options",[11,1257,1258,1261],{},[209,1259,1260],{},"Simplified expenses (the mileage rate)."," Claim a flat 45p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year and 25p after that. That figure is meant to cover everything: fuel, insurance, servicing, repairs, road tax, depreciation. You claim nothing else for the vehicle.",[11,1263,1264,1267],{},[209,1265,1266],{},"Actual costs."," Work out what the vehicle really costs you across the year, then claim the business proportion of it. You also claim capital allowances on the purchase price. This means keeping receipts for everything and knowing your business-use percentage.",[18,1269,1271],{"id":1270},"the-rule-that-catches-people","The rule that catches people",[11,1273,1274,1275,1278],{},"Once you have used the mileage rate for a particular vehicle, ",[209,1276,1277],{},"you must keep using it for that vehicle"," for as long as you own it. You cannot claim 45p a mile for three years and then switch to actual costs when the car needs a new gearbox.",[11,1280,1281],{},"It also runs the other way: if you claim capital allowances on a vehicle, the mileage rate is closed to you for that vehicle.",[11,1283,1284],{},"So the decision is made once, early, and lives with the car.",[18,1286,1288],{"id":1287},"which-usually-wins","Which usually wins",[11,1290,1291],{},"The mileage rate tends to win when:",[67,1293,1294,1297,1300,1303],{},[70,1295,1296],{},"The car was cheap, or was already yours",[70,1298,1299],{},"You drive a lot of business miles in it",[70,1301,1302],{},"It is economical, so 45p comfortably exceeds what the mile actually cost",[70,1304,1305],{},"You would rather not keep every receipt",[11,1307,1308],{},"Actual costs tend to win when:",[67,1310,1311,1314,1317,1320],{},[70,1312,1313],{},"The vehicle was expensive, so the capital allowances are substantial",[70,1315,1316],{},"Business use is a high proportion of total use",[70,1318,1319],{},"Running costs are genuinely high — a van, something thirsty, something old and needy",[70,1321,1322],{},"Your annual business mileage is modest, so the flat rate does not add up to much",[11,1324,1325],{},"The rough test: estimate your business miles for the year, multiply by the rate, and compare it against your real annual running costs times your business-use percentage. If the answer is close, the mileage rate is usually the better deal simply because it takes an afternoon less to administer.",[18,1327,1329],{"id":1328},"you-still-need-the-mileage-log-either-way","You still need the mileage log either way",[11,1331,1332,1333,1335],{},"This is the part people miss. Choosing actual costs does not free you from recording journeys — it makes the record ",[106,1334,262],{}," important, because your business-use percentage has to be justified from somewhere. \"About 60%\" is not a figure HMRC can check, and neither can you.",[11,1337,1338],{},"Whichever route you take, the underlying evidence is the same: date, from, to, purpose, distance. That is what Milesheet records, and why the log is worth keeping before you have decided which method you are using.",[18,1340,65],{"id":64},[67,1342,1343,1348,1355,1360],{},[70,1344,1345],{},[73,1346,662],{"href":660,"rel":1347},[77],[70,1349,1350],{},[73,1351,1354],{"href":1352,"rel":1353},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fsimplified-expenses-checker",[77],"HMRC — Simplified expenses checker",[70,1356,1357],{},[73,1358,85],{"href":83,"rel":1359},[77],[70,1361,1362],{},[73,1363,325],{"href":323,"rel":1364},[77],[101,1366],{},[11,1368,1369],{},[106,1370,1371],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. The choice between methods has long-term consequences: worth an hour of an accountant's time before you commit.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1373},[1374,1375,1376,1377,1378],{"id":1254,"depth":111,"text":1255},{"id":1270,"depth":111,"text":1271},{"id":1287,"depth":111,"text":1288},{"id":1328,"depth":111,"text":1329},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-05-07","Self-employed drivers get a choice, it is effectively permanent for that vehicle, and the right answer depends on how much the car cost and how far you drive.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsimplified-expenses-vs-actual-costs",{"title":1246,"description":1380},"blog\u002Fsimplified-expenses-vs-actual-costs",[1386,793,136],"self-employed","W9wPBbFTkGuXp0yTR7E9jF1NOEUNzDnwFqopnDZLrqk",{"id":1389,"title":1390,"author":6,"body":1391,"category":119,"date":1504,"description":1505,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":1506,"navigation":128,"path":1507,"readTime":130,"seo":1508,"stem":1509,"tags":1510,"__hash__":1513},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fcompany-car-or-your-own.md","Company car or your own: what you can actually claim",{"type":8,"value":1392,"toc":1497},[1393,1396,1400,1407,1410,1414,1424,1427,1441,1444,1448,1451,1458,1462,1465,1468,1471,1473,1490,1492],[11,1394,1395],{},"There are two entirely separate systems here, they use different numbers, and mixing them up is the most expensive routine mistake on UK mileage claims.",[18,1397,1399],{"id":1398},"if-the-car-is-yours","If the car is yours",[11,1401,1402,1403,1406],{},"You use ",[209,1404,1405],{},"Approved Mileage Allowance Payments",": 45p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, 25p thereafter. That rate is meant to cover everything the car costs you — fuel, insurance, servicing, depreciation, the lot.",[11,1408,1409],{},"If your employer pays you less than that, you can claim tax relief on the shortfall. If they pay more, the excess is taxable.",[18,1411,1413],{"id":1412},"if-the-car-belongs-to-the-company","If the car belongs to the company",[11,1415,1416,1417,1420,1421,1423],{},"Approved mileage rates do not apply. The company already owns the car and bears its costs, so there is nothing to reimburse you for except ",[209,1418,1419],{},"fuel",". That is what ",[209,1422,273],{}," are for.",[11,1425,1426],{},"Advisory Fuel Rates are:",[67,1428,1429,1432,1438],{},[70,1430,1431],{},"Much lower — pence per mile figures that vary by engine size and fuel type",[70,1433,1434,1437],{},[209,1435,1436],{},"Revised quarterly",", so last year's figure is not this year's",[70,1439,1440],{},"Used both for reimbursing employees for business fuel, and for employees repaying the cost of private fuel",[11,1442,1443],{},"The practical consequence: someone with a company car claiming 45p a mile is claiming something they are not entitled to, usually without realising, and often for years.",[18,1445,1447],{"id":1446},"electric-company-cars","Electric company cars",[11,1449,1450],{},"There is a separate advisory electricity rate for fully electric company cars, published alongside the fuel rates and revised on the same cycle. It is not the same as the 45p rate, for the same reason: the company owns the car.",[11,1452,1453,1454,1457],{},"An electric car that is ",[106,1455,1456],{},"yours"," is different again — approved mileage rates apply at the normal 45p and 25p, regardless of the fact you are charging rather than filling up.",[18,1459,1461],{"id":1460},"why-the-record-still-matters","Why the record still matters",[11,1463,1464],{},"Under both systems the underlying evidence is identical: which journeys were business, when, where from and to, and how far.",[11,1466,1467],{},"The difference is only in what you multiply the miles by. Get the log right and switching between the two — a new job, a company car arriving or going away — is a change of rate rather than a change of habit.",[11,1469,1470],{},"Milesheet keeps each vehicle separate, with its own economy and running costs, so a company car and your own car do not end up in the same total.",[18,1472,65],{"id":64},[67,1474,1475,1480,1485],{},[70,1476,1477],{},[73,1478,92],{"href":90,"rel":1479},[77],[70,1481,1482],{},[73,1483,85],{"href":83,"rel":1484},[77],[70,1486,1487],{},[73,1488,78],{"href":75,"rel":1489},[77],[101,1491],{},[11,1493,1494],{},[106,1495,1496],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Advisory Fuel Rates change quarterly — check the current table before you claim.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1498},[1499,1500,1501,1502,1503],{"id":1398,"depth":111,"text":1399},{"id":1412,"depth":111,"text":1413},{"id":1446,"depth":111,"text":1447},{"id":1460,"depth":111,"text":1461},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-04-30","Advisory Fuel Rates, approved mileage rates, and the expensive habit of confusing the two.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcompany-car-or-your-own",{"title":1390,"description":1505},"blog\u002Fcompany-car-or-your-own",[1511,1512,136],"company car","advisory fuel rates","pzy13bz2sarrDYXIT-pGGvi6Yk6lOe-V7cjH49AXzv8",{"id":1515,"title":1516,"author":6,"body":1517,"category":119,"date":1638,"description":1639,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":1640,"navigation":128,"path":1641,"readTime":347,"seo":1642,"stem":1643,"tags":1644,"__hash__":1647},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fworking-from-home-mileage.md","If you work from home, where does business travel start?",{"type":8,"value":1518,"toc":1630},[1519,1522,1526,1533,1536,1540,1551,1554,1557,1561,1564,1567,1571,1574,1585,1588,1592,1595,1604,1606,1623,1625],[11,1520,1521],{},"Hybrid working broke a rule that used to be simple. When everyone went to an office five days a week, home was home and the office was the permanent workplace. Now the line moves, and a lot of people are guessing.",[18,1523,1525],{"id":1524},"the-default-answer","The default answer",[11,1527,1528,1529,1532],{},"Your home is ",[209,1530,1531],{},"not"," automatically a workplace just because you work in it. HMRC's starting position is that where you live is a personal choice, and travel from it to your employer's premises is ordinary commuting — not claimable — whether you go five days a week or one.",[11,1534,1535],{},"That is the answer most hybrid workers do not want, and it is the answer that applies to most of them.",[18,1537,1539],{"id":1538},"when-home-genuinely-is-a-workplace","When home genuinely is a workplace",[11,1541,1542,1543,1546,1547,1550],{},"It can be, but the bar is meaningful. Broadly, the duties you perform at home must be ",[209,1544,1545],{},"substantive"," — real work, not just admin you could have done anywhere — and there must be an ",[209,1548,1549],{},"objective requirement"," to do them at home, rather than a personal preference or an employer being relaxed about it.",[11,1552,1553],{},"\"My employer lets me work from home three days a week\" does not clear it. \"There is no office within a hundred miles and my role requires a base\" is much closer.",[11,1555,1556],{},"If home does qualify as a workplace, travel from there to another workplace is business travel, and the picture changes considerably.",[18,1558,1560],{"id":1559},"the-trap-in-the-middle","The trap in the middle",[11,1562,1563],{},"The most common hybrid mistake is treating office days as claimable because they are occasional. Frequency is not the test. A permanent workplace visited once a fortnight is still a permanent workplace, and the drive to it is still commuting.",[11,1565,1566],{},"Equally, people under-claim: a drive from home straight to a client, on a day you would otherwise have been at home, is business travel and often goes unrecorded because it did not feel like a \"work trip\".",[18,1568,1570],{"id":1569},"triangular-journeys","Triangular journeys",[11,1572,1573],{},"Home → office → client → home is three legs and they are not all the same.",[67,1575,1576,1579,1582],{},[70,1577,1578],{},"Home to office: commuting, not claimable",[70,1580,1581],{},"Office to client: business travel, claimable",[70,1583,1584],{},"Client to home: usually claimable, though if you detour somewhere personal on the way, that part is not",[11,1586,1587],{},"The practical answer is to record all of it and classify each leg for what it was, rather than deciding at the end of the month that the whole day was or was not \"business\".",[18,1589,1591],{"id":1590},"why-the-record-helps-here-more-than-anywhere","Why the record helps here more than anywhere",[11,1593,1594],{},"This is precisely the area where a claim gets challenged, because the facts vary person to person and month to month. A contemporaneous log — recorded on the day, not reconstructed in April — is the difference between a defensible position and an argument.",[11,1596,1597,1598,1600,1601,1603],{},"Milesheet records each leg separately, so a day like the one above arrives as three journeys you can sort individually. Tag home as ",[209,1599,1058],{}," and the office as ",[209,1602,1054],{}," and the commuting legs are recognised and kept out of the claim automatically, while still sitting in your records where you can see them.",[18,1605,65],{"id":64},[67,1607,1608,1613,1618],{},[70,1609,1610],{},[73,1611,99],{"href":97,"rel":1612},[77],[70,1614,1615],{},[73,1616,469],{"href":467,"rel":1617},[77],[70,1619,1620],{},[73,1621,305],{"href":303,"rel":1622},[77],[101,1624],{},[11,1626,1627],{},[106,1628,1629],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Whether a home qualifies as a workplace is fact-specific: if you are relying on it, get it confirmed.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1631},[1632,1633,1634,1635,1636,1637],{"id":1524,"depth":111,"text":1525},{"id":1538,"depth":111,"text":1539},{"id":1559,"depth":111,"text":1560},{"id":1569,"depth":111,"text":1570},{"id":1590,"depth":111,"text":1591},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-04-16","Whether your house counts as a workplace, when the drive to the office becomes claimable, and why hybrid working makes this harder rather than easier.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fworking-from-home-mileage",{"title":1516,"description":1639},"blog\u002Fworking-from-home-mileage",[136,1645,1646],"working from home","hybrid","nD2OCkLBnu6o3Ec1BTtvzEJriXwShgVnG3dxXHog8tE",{"id":1649,"title":1650,"author":6,"body":1651,"category":119,"date":1765,"description":1766,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":343,"imageAlt":1767,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":128,"meta":1768,"navigation":128,"path":1769,"readTime":130,"seo":1770,"stem":1771,"tags":1772,"__hash__":1774},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftax-year-end-checklist-for-drivers.md","A tax year end checklist for anyone who drives for work",{"type":8,"value":1652,"toc":1756},[1653,1660,1664,1667,1670,1674,1681,1684,1688,1691,1694,1698,1701,1704,1708,1711,1715,1726,1728,1750,1752],[11,1654,1655,1656,1659],{},"The UK tax year ends on ",[209,1657,1658],{},"5 April",". Nothing dramatic happens on the day, but a few things get considerably harder once it has passed. Here is the short list.",[18,1661,1663],{"id":1662},"_1-sort-anything-still-unclassified","1. Sort anything still unclassified",[11,1665,1666],{},"An unclassified journey is in no total. If you have a backlog of trips you never got round to marking business or personal, that is money sitting in a queue.",[11,1668,1669],{},"Do it now while you can still remember what a Tuesday in November was for. In six months you will be guessing, and a guessed log is a weak log.",[18,1671,1673],{"id":1672},"_2-check-your-business-mileage-against-the-10000-line","2. Check your business mileage against the 10,000 line",[11,1675,1676,1677,1680],{},"The rate drops from 45p to 25p once you pass 10,000 business miles ",[209,1678,1679],{},"in the tax year",", and the counter resets on 6 April.",[11,1682,1683],{},"This matters for planning if you are close to it. Nobody is suggesting you invent journeys — but if you have discretion over when a long trip happens, and you are at 9,800 miles in late March, the same drive is worth 45p a mile in April rather than 25p now.",[18,1685,1687],{"id":1686},"_3-reconcile-your-odometer","3. Reconcile your odometer",[11,1689,1690],{},"This is the one people skip and later regret. Compare what your odometer says against what your log accounts for. If the car has covered 14,000 miles and your journeys add up to 11,000, then 3,000 miles went unrecorded — and unrecorded business miles cannot be claimed.",[11,1692,1693],{},"You will not recover all of it, but a gap between two known dates is a far better prompt for your memory than a blank year. Milesheet does this comparison for you from your fill-up odometer readings and flags stretches where the two disagree.",[18,1695,1697],{"id":1696},"_4-collect-the-out-of-pocket-costs","4. Collect the out-of-pocket costs",[11,1699,1700],{},"Parking, tolls, congestion and clean-air charges on business journeys are claimable separately from mileage — the mileage rate covers running the vehicle, not what you paid to leave it somewhere.",[11,1702,1703],{},"Receipts are easier to find in April than in January. If you photograph them onto the journey as you go, this step is already done.",[18,1705,1707],{"id":1706},"_5-export-before-you-need-it","5. Export before you need it",[11,1709,1710],{},"Produce the CSV and the claim PDF for the year while everything is fresh, and put them somewhere that is not only your phone. If you file in January, the version of events you want is the one you assembled in April.",[18,1712,1714],{"id":1713},"_6-check-how-long-to-keep-it","6. Check how long to keep it",[11,1716,1717,1718,1721,1722,1725],{},"Records need keeping for ",[209,1719,1720],{},"at least 22 months after the end of the tax year"," if you are employed, and ",[209,1723,1724],{},"five years after the 31 January filing deadline"," if you are self-employed. Deleting last year's log to tidy up is a bad trade.",[18,1727,65],{"id":64},[67,1729,1730,1735,1740,1745],{},[70,1731,1732],{},[73,1733,325],{"href":323,"rel":1734},[77],[70,1736,1737],{},[73,1738,85],{"href":83,"rel":1739},[77],[70,1741,1742],{},[73,1743,312],{"href":310,"rel":1744},[77],[70,1746,1747],{},[73,1748,662],{"href":660,"rel":1749},[77],[101,1751],{},[11,1753,1754],{},[106,1755,669],{},{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1757},[1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764],{"id":1662,"depth":111,"text":1663},{"id":1672,"depth":111,"text":1673},{"id":1686,"depth":111,"text":1687},{"id":1696,"depth":111,"text":1697},{"id":1706,"depth":111,"text":1707},{"id":1713,"depth":111,"text":1714},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-04-09","What to do in the fortnight before 5 April, and the three things that are much harder to fix afterwards.","The tax-year claim and business mileage total in Milesheet",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftax-year-end-checklist-for-drivers",{"title":1650,"description":1766},"blog\u002Ftax-year-end-checklist-for-drivers",[1773,688,687],"tax year","hYtSg5vrzqN3ROqbj-jFLYBTJOQaOvmifPYm-nXFJFg",{"id":1776,"title":1777,"author":6,"body":1778,"category":119,"date":1870,"description":1871,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":1872,"navigation":128,"path":1873,"readTime":130,"seo":1874,"stem":1875,"tags":1876,"__hash__":1878},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Felectric-cars-and-the-45p-rate.md","Electric cars and the 45p rate",{"type":8,"value":1779,"toc":1863},[1780,1783,1787,1794,1797,1800,1803,1807,1814,1817,1820,1824,1827,1831,1834,1837,1839,1856,1858],[11,1781,1782],{},"The rules here are simpler than people expect, but they land in a way that surprises everyone the first time.",[18,1784,1786],{"id":1785},"if-the-ev-is-yours","If the EV is yours",[11,1788,1789,1790,1793],{},"You claim the ",[209,1791,1792],{},"same approved mileage rates as any other car",": 45p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, then 25p.",[11,1795,1796],{},"There is no separate electric rate, no reduction for the fact you are charging rather than filling up, and no requirement to work out what the electricity cost. The rate is the rate.",[11,1798,1799],{},"This is quietly one of the better deals in the tax system. The approved rate is designed around the running costs of an average car — including petrol at petrol prices. If you charge mostly at home on a cheap overnight tariff, your actual cost per mile can be a small fraction of 45p, and you keep the difference.",[11,1801,1802],{},"Charge exclusively on the rapid network at motorway prices and the gap narrows considerably. It can close entirely.",[18,1804,1806],{"id":1805},"if-the-ev-belongs-to-the-company","If the EV belongs to the company",[11,1808,1809,1810,1813],{},"Different system. Approved mileage rates do not apply, because the company owns the car and bears its costs. What applies instead is the ",[209,1811,1812],{},"advisory electricity rate",", published by HMRC alongside Advisory Fuel Rates and revised on the same quarterly cycle.",[11,1815,1816],{},"It is a pence-per-mile figure for reimbursing business mileage in a company EV, and it is a lot lower than 45p, for exactly the reason it should be: you are being reimbursed for electricity, not for running a car you own.",[11,1818,1819],{},"Claiming 45p for a company EV is the same error as claiming it for a company diesel — common, and expensive if it runs for years.",[18,1821,1823],{"id":1822},"home-charging-and-company-cars","Home charging and company cars",[11,1825,1826],{},"Reimbursement for charging a company car at home has its own treatment and has changed in recent years. If that is your situation, check the current guidance rather than relying on what was true when you got the car.",[18,1828,1830],{"id":1829},"what-to-record","What to record",[11,1832,1833],{},"Identical to any other vehicle: date, from, to, purpose, distance. The rate you apply differs; the evidence does not.",[11,1835,1836],{},"If you run an EV alongside a petrol car, keep them as separate vehicles in your records. They may be on different systems entirely, and the 10,000-mile threshold is counted across all your own vehicles rather than per car — which is a detail worth getting right when two cars are in play.",[18,1838,65],{"id":64},[67,1840,1841,1846,1851],{},[70,1842,1843],{},[73,1844,85],{"href":83,"rel":1845},[77],[70,1847,1848],{},[73,1849,92],{"href":90,"rel":1850},[77],[70,1852,1853],{},[73,1854,78],{"href":75,"rel":1855},[77],[101,1857],{},[11,1859,1860],{},[106,1861,1862],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Rates for company vehicles are revised quarterly — check the current table.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1864},[1865,1866,1867,1868,1869],{"id":1785,"depth":111,"text":1786},{"id":1805,"depth":111,"text":1806},{"id":1822,"depth":111,"text":1823},{"id":1829,"depth":111,"text":1830},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-03-26","Why an EV you own claims exactly the same as a petrol car, why a company EV does not, and what that gap is worth.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Felectric-cars-and-the-45p-rate",{"title":1777,"description":1871},"blog\u002Felectric-cars-and-the-45p-rate",[1877,136,1511],"electric","nXyG-HAhdrcPaC-DN26ggbnKiogRNEXWm5gaCF97hZo",{"id":1880,"title":1881,"author":6,"body":1882,"category":119,"date":1985,"description":1986,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":1987,"navigation":128,"path":1988,"readTime":130,"seo":1989,"stem":1990,"tags":1991,"__hash__":1993},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fclaiming-mileage-in-a-van.md","Claiming mileage in a van",{"type":8,"value":1883,"toc":1977},[1884,1891,1895,1898,1904,1907,1911,1922,1925,1929,1932,1935,1939,1942,1946,1949,1952,1954,1971,1973],[11,1885,1886,1887,1890],{},"Vans sit in the same band as cars for approved mileage: ",[209,1888,1889],{},"45p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles, 25p after",". There is no separate van rate, which is the first thing worth knowing and the reason the mileage rate suits some trades badly.",[18,1892,1894],{"id":1893},"why-the-flat-rate-can-work-against-a-van","Why the flat rate can work against a van",[11,1896,1897],{},"The 45p figure is built around the running costs of an average car. A van is generally not an average car. It is heavier, thirstier, harder on tyres and brakes, more expensive to insure commercially, and often working considerably harder than a family hatchback.",[11,1899,1900,1901,1903],{},"If you are running a long-wheelbase van at 28 mpg, loaded, doing 6,000 business miles a year, the flat rate may well be less than the vehicle genuinely costs you. That is the case where ",[209,1902,797],{}," deserve a proper look — real fuel, real servicing, real insurance, plus capital allowances on the purchase.",[11,1905,1906],{},"Against that: actual costs mean keeping every receipt and defending a business-use percentage.",[18,1908,1910],{"id":1909},"where-the-mileage-rate-wins","Where the mileage rate wins",[67,1912,1913,1916,1919],{},[70,1914,1915],{},"High business mileage in a smaller, economical van",[70,1917,1918],{},"The van was bought cheaply, or is old enough that capital allowances are largely spent",[70,1920,1921],{},"You would rather have a simple, defensible number than a shoebox of receipts",[11,1923,1924],{},"The arithmetic is the same test as for a car: business miles × the rate, against real annual costs × business-use percentage.",[18,1926,1928],{"id":1927},"the-decision-is-close-to-permanent","The decision is close to permanent",[11,1930,1931],{},"Worth repeating, because it bites hardest here: once you use the mileage rate for a vehicle, you must keep using it for that vehicle. You cannot claim 45p for three years and switch to actual costs the year the clutch goes.",[11,1933,1934],{},"For a van with a hard life, that is a decision worth making deliberately at purchase rather than discovering later.",[18,1936,1938],{"id":1937},"private-use","Private use",[11,1940,1941],{},"If the van is also your personal transport, only the business proportion is claimable, and for employees a company van available for private use is a benefit in kind with its own charge. \"It's a work van\" is not, by itself, an answer to any of this.",[18,1943,1945],{"id":1944},"recording","Recording",[11,1947,1948],{},"Same evidence as any vehicle: date, from, to, purpose, distance. Trades doing many short drops in a day are the group most likely to under-record, because stopping to write down a four-mile hop between jobs is not going to happen.",[11,1950,1951],{},"That is the case for recording automatically. Milesheet logs each leg as its own journey, so a day of eleven drops arrives as eleven trips to sort rather than one vague total, and keeps each vehicle's economy and costs separate if you run more than one.",[18,1953,65],{"id":64},[67,1955,1956,1961,1966],{},[70,1957,1958],{},[73,1959,85],{"href":83,"rel":1960},[77],[70,1962,1963],{},[73,1964,662],{"href":660,"rel":1965},[77],[70,1967,1968],{},[73,1969,1354],{"href":1352,"rel":1970},[77],[101,1972],{},[11,1974,1975],{},[106,1976,669],{},{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":1978},[1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984],{"id":1893,"depth":111,"text":1894},{"id":1909,"depth":111,"text":1910},{"id":1927,"depth":111,"text":1928},{"id":1937,"depth":111,"text":1938},{"id":1944,"depth":111,"text":1945},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-03-19","Vans use the same 45p rate as cars, which is better news for some trades than others — and worse news than actual costs for a few.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fclaiming-mileage-in-a-van",{"title":1881,"description":1986},"blog\u002Fclaiming-mileage-in-a-van",[1992,1386,136],"vans","eR0sT6HIljJlOiioI3guzntO_OHOHzg6jUOc-VQ1eBk",{"id":1995,"title":1996,"author":6,"body":1997,"category":119,"date":2102,"description":2103,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":126,"imageAlt":126,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":2104,"navigation":128,"path":2105,"readTime":953,"seo":2106,"stem":2107,"tags":2108,"__hash__":2110},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fparking-fines-are-not-expenses.md","Parking fees you can claim, and fines you cannot",{"type":8,"value":1998,"toc":2095},[1999,2002,2006,2013,2016,2022,2026,2029,2032,2036,2039,2053,2060,2064,2067,2070,2072,2089,2091],[11,2000,2001],{},"Both come out of the same wallet on the same day. Only one of them is deductible.",[18,2003,2005],{"id":2004},"parking-fees-claimable","Parking fees: claimable",[11,2007,2008,2009,2012],{},"Parking while on a business journey is a legitimate business expense, and it is claimable ",[209,2010,2011],{},"separately from mileage",". The approved mileage rate covers the cost of running the vehicle — fuel, wear, insurance, depreciation — not what you paid to leave it somewhere.",[11,2014,2015],{},"The same goes for tolls, the Dartford Crossing, the Severn crossing when it charged, congestion charges and clean-air zone charges, provided the journey itself was business.",[11,2017,2018,2019,2021],{},"What is not claimable is parking at your ",[209,2020,371],{},". That follows the same logic as commuting: getting yourself to your normal place of work is your own affair.",[18,2023,2025],{"id":2024},"parking-fines-not-claimable","Parking fines: not claimable",[11,2027,2028],{},"Penalties are not an allowable deduction. The reasoning is straightforward — the tax system does not subsidise breaking the law, however routine it feels.",[11,2030,2031],{},"That covers parking tickets, speeding fines, and penalty charge notices, whether you were on business or not.",[18,2033,2035],{"id":2034},"the-bit-that-differs-by-structure","The bit that differs by structure",[11,2037,2038],{},"There is a wrinkle worth knowing if you run a limited company.",[67,2040,2041,2047],{},[70,2042,2043,2046],{},[209,2044,2045],{},"Sole trader",": the fine is simply not deductible. It comes out of taxed money.",[70,2048,2049,2052],{},[209,2050,2051],{},"Limited company paying a fine issued to the driver personally",": the company has effectively settled a personal liability, which can be treated as a benefit in kind or as earnings, with the reporting that implies.",[11,2054,2055,2056,2059],{},"Fines issued to the ",[106,2057,2058],{},"company"," rather than the individual are treated differently again. Either way, \"the company paid it\" does not make it deductible.",[18,2061,2063],{"id":2062},"the-practical-bit","The practical bit",[11,2065,2066],{},"Keep the receipts for the fees and attach them to the journey they belong to. A parking receipt on its own is a scrap of thermal paper that will be illegible by August; a parking receipt attached to a recorded journey with a date, a destination and a purpose is evidence.",[11,2068,2069],{},"Milesheet lets you add parking, tolls and charges to a trip with a photo of the receipt, and carries them into your monthly statements alongside the mileage — so the claimable costs are itemised, and the fines are somewhere else entirely, which is where they belong.",[18,2071,65],{"id":64},[67,2073,2074,2079,2084],{},[70,2075,2076],{},[73,2077,662],{"href":660,"rel":2078},[77],[70,2080,2081],{},[73,2082,78],{"href":75,"rel":2083},[77],[70,2085,2086],{},[73,2087,305],{"href":303,"rel":2088},[77],[101,2090],{},[11,2092,2093],{},[106,2094,669],{},{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2096},[2097,2098,2099,2100,2101],{"id":2004,"depth":111,"text":2005},{"id":2024,"depth":111,"text":2025},{"id":2034,"depth":111,"text":2035},{"id":2062,"depth":111,"text":2063},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-03-12","The line between a cost of doing business and a penalty, and the small print that catches sole traders and directors differently.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fparking-fines-are-not-expenses",{"title":1996,"description":2103},"blog\u002Fparking-fines-are-not-expenses",[842,2109,136],"parking","u9zH3v5cZbMUNWHqlPjZCMoG6wiEiodDfVV4dwKgdY0",{"id":2112,"title":2113,"author":6,"body":2114,"category":119,"date":2200,"description":2201,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":124,"imageAlt":125,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":2202,"navigation":128,"path":2203,"readTime":130,"seo":2204,"stem":2205,"tags":2206,"__hash__":2209},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fcongestion-ulez-and-clean-air-zones.md","Congestion, ULEZ and clean air zones: what you can claim",{"type":8,"value":2115,"toc":2193},[2116,2119,2123,2130,2137,2141,2144,2147,2151,2154,2157,2161,2164,2167,2169,2186,2188],[11,2117,2118],{},"Anyone driving for work in a UK city is now paying charges that did not exist a few years ago. They add up faster than people expect, and they are claimable — but only under the same test as everything else.",[18,2120,2122],{"id":2121},"they-are-separate-from-mileage","They are separate from mileage",[11,2124,2125,2126,2129],{},"This is the part worth internalising. The approved mileage rate covers ",[209,2127,2128],{},"running the vehicle",": fuel, servicing, insurance, depreciation. It does not cover what you paid to drive it into a particular postcode.",[11,2131,2132,2133,2136],{},"So congestion charges, ULEZ charges and clean air zone charges on a business journey are claimed ",[209,2134,2135],{},"in addition"," to the mileage, not instead of it. The same is true of tolls and crossings.",[18,2138,2140],{"id":2139},"the-test-is-the-journey-not-the-charge","The test is the journey, not the charge",[11,2142,2143],{},"A charge is claimable if the journey was business travel. It is not claimable if the journey was ordinary commuting — driving into a zone to reach your permanent workplace is your own cost, however unwelcome.",[11,2145,2146],{},"That means the same £15 charge can be claimable on Tuesday and not on Wednesday, depending on where you were going. This is exactly why a per-journey record beats a monthly total: a bank statement showing charges tells you what you paid, not which of them qualify.",[18,2148,2150],{"id":2149},"zones-vary-and-so-does-what-they-charge","Zones vary, and so does what they charge",[11,2152,2153],{},"There is no single national scheme. London's congestion charge and ULEZ are separate things with separate rules. Clean air zones in other cities differ in class — some charge vans and taxis but not private cars, some charge almost everything, some charge nothing for compliant vehicles.",[11,2155,2156],{},"The practical consequence: what you owe depends on the vehicle as much as the city. If you run more than one vehicle, the same trip can cost differently depending on which one you took, and that is worth knowing before you decide which to take.",[18,2158,2160],{"id":2159},"keep-the-evidence-attached-to-the-journey","Keep the evidence attached to the journey",[11,2162,2163],{},"Charges are usually paid online, often days later, sometimes in a batch. By the time it reaches your statement it is a line item with a reference number and no context.",[11,2165,2166],{},"The version that survives a question is the charge attached to the journey it belongs to, with the date, the destination and the reason it was business. Milesheet takes parking, tolls and charges as costs on a trip, with a photo of the receipt or confirmation, and carries them into the monthly statement alongside the mileage — so the claimable ones are itemised where the journey is.",[18,2168,65],{"id":64},[67,2170,2171,2176,2181],{},[70,2172,2173],{},[73,2174,662],{"href":660,"rel":2175},[77],[70,2177,2178],{},[73,2179,78],{"href":75,"rel":2180},[77],[70,2182,2183],{},[73,2184,305],{"href":303,"rel":2185},[77],[101,2187],{},[11,2189,2190],{},[106,2191,2192],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Zone rules and charges change: check the operating authority for current rates.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2194},[2195,2196,2197,2198,2199],{"id":2121,"depth":111,"text":2122},{"id":2139,"depth":111,"text":2140},{"id":2149,"depth":111,"text":2150},{"id":2159,"depth":111,"text":2160},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-03-05","Daily charges are a real cost of driving for work, they are claimable separately from mileage, and the rules on which vehicle pays what keep moving.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcongestion-ulez-and-clean-air-zones",{"title":2113,"description":2201},"blog\u002Fcongestion-ulez-and-clean-air-zones",[842,2207,2208],"ulez","clean air zones","wWK33HKcH1NEOV9B65Q3cssftbjAXShRkyccob_Rrao",{"id":2211,"title":2212,"author":6,"body":2213,"category":119,"date":2327,"description":2328,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":680,"imageAlt":2329,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":128,"meta":2330,"navigation":128,"path":2331,"readTime":347,"seo":2332,"stem":2333,"tags":2334,"__hash__":2336},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-triggers-a-mileage-query.md","What makes HMRC look twice at a mileage claim",{"type":8,"value":2214,"toc":2317},[2215,2218,2222,2225,2228,2232,2235,2238,2242,2245,2249,2256,2260,2263,2267,2270,2277,2281,2284,2287,2289,2311,2313],[11,2216,2217],{},"Most mileage claims are never looked at. The ones that are tend to share a handful of characteristics, and none of them are about the amount being large.",[18,2219,2221],{"id":2220},"round-numbers-everywhere","Round numbers everywhere",[11,2223,2224],{},"Real driving does not produce round numbers. A month of genuine journeys totals 847 miles, not 850. A claim made of tidy fifties and hundreds looks estimated because it usually is.",[11,2226,2227],{},"This is the single most common tell, and it is entirely avoidable: record the distance you actually drove.",[18,2229,2231],{"id":2230},"the-same-figure-every-month","The same figure every month",[11,2233,2234],{},"A claim of exactly 500 miles in twelve consecutive months describes a standing order, not a working year. Real mileage moves with holidays, weather, illness, quiet Augusts and busy Novembers.",[11,2236,2237],{},"If your driving genuinely is that regular, the record will show it — but it will show it as 512, 486, 503, not 500 twelve times.",[18,2239,2241],{"id":2240},"days-that-could-not-have-happened","Days that could not have happened",[11,2243,2244],{},"Claims that require being in two places at once, or covering 400 miles in a working day that also contained six hours of meetings, do not survive contact with a calendar. Reconstructing a year from memory produces these without anyone intending to mislead.",[18,2246,2248],{"id":2247},"no-evidence-of-the-journeys-purpose","No evidence of the journey's purpose",[11,2250,2251,2252,2255],{},"The distance is only half of it. HMRC's expectation is that you can say ",[209,2253,2254],{},"why"," a journey was business — which client, which site, which job. \"Business mileage: 340\" is a number, not a record.",[18,2257,2259],{"id":2258},"commuting-mixed-in","Commuting mixed in",[11,2261,2262],{},"Home to a permanent workplace is not claimable, and a claim that quietly includes it is the most common substantive error rather than a presentational one. If a pattern of identical journeys on identical weekdays runs through the log, it invites exactly the question you do not want.",[18,2264,2266],{"id":2265},"what-a-good-record-looks-like","What a good record looks like",[11,2268,2269],{},"For each journey: the date, where you went from and to, why it was business, and how far. Kept as you go, not assembled afterwards. Retained for at least 22 months after the end of the tax year if you are employed, or five years after the filing deadline if self-employed.",[11,2271,2272,2273,2276],{},"The reason contemporaneous records matter is not bureaucratic. It is that they are ",[106,2274,2275],{},"checkable"," — against your calendar, your invoices, your fuel receipts and your odometer — and a claim that agrees with four other sources is not a claim anyone spends long on.",[18,2278,2280],{"id":2279},"the-quiet-advantage-of-recording-automatically","The quiet advantage of recording automatically",[11,2282,2283],{},"A log that writes itself as you drive is contemporaneous by definition. It produces the awkward, specific numbers real driving makes, it carries the route rather than just the total, and it cannot accidentally include the school run because nobody was reconstructing anything in April.",[11,2285,2286],{},"Milesheet records each journey as it happens, keeps commuting out of the claim once home and workplace are tagged, and exports the year as a CSV or PDF that shows the individual journeys rather than a monthly figure.",[18,2288,65],{"id":64},[67,2290,2291,2296,2301,2306],{},[70,2292,2293],{},[73,2294,325],{"href":323,"rel":2295},[77],[70,2297,2298],{},[73,2299,99],{"href":97,"rel":2300},[77],[70,2302,2303],{},[73,2304,305],{"href":303,"rel":2305},[77],[70,2307,2308],{},[73,2309,85],{"href":83,"rel":2310},[77],[101,2312],{},[11,2314,2315],{},[106,2316,669],{},{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2318},[2319,2320,2321,2322,2323,2324,2325,2326],{"id":2220,"depth":111,"text":2221},{"id":2230,"depth":111,"text":2231},{"id":2240,"depth":111,"text":2241},{"id":2247,"depth":111,"text":2248},{"id":2258,"depth":111,"text":2259},{"id":2265,"depth":111,"text":2266},{"id":2279,"depth":111,"text":2280},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-02-19","Round numbers, impossible days, claims that never change, and the other patterns that invite a question you would rather not answer.","A month of journeys in Milesheet, each with its own date, route and distance",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-triggers-a-mileage-query",{"title":2212,"description":2328},"blog\u002Fwhat-triggers-a-mileage-query",[136,687,2335],"compliance","3DLXjXwNkCHX7zV6S-6YREAZcExOQscFeIw5vq-ayE8",{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":2338,"category":119,"date":120,"description":121,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":124,"imageAlt":125,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":2408,"navigation":128,"path":129,"readTime":130,"seo":2409,"stem":132,"tags":2410,"__hash__":137},{"type":8,"value":2339,"toc":2400},[2340,2342,2344,2346,2348,2350,2352,2354,2356,2358,2360,2362,2364,2366,2368,2370,2372,2394,2396],[11,2341,13],{},[11,2343,16],{},[18,2345,21],{"id":20},[11,2347,24],{},[11,2349,27],{},[18,2351,31],{"id":30},[11,2353,34],{},[11,2355,37],{},[18,2357,41],{"id":40},[11,2359,44],{},[11,2361,47],{},[18,2363,51],{"id":50},[11,2365,54],{},[18,2367,58],{"id":57},[11,2369,61],{},[18,2371,65],{"id":64},[67,2373,2374,2379,2384,2389],{},[70,2375,2376],{},[73,2377,78],{"href":75,"rel":2378},[77],[70,2380,2381],{},[73,2382,85],{"href":83,"rel":2383},[77],[70,2385,2386],{},[73,2387,92],{"href":90,"rel":2388},[77],[70,2390,2391],{},[73,2392,99],{"href":97,"rel":2393},[77],[101,2395],{},[11,2397,2398],{},[106,2399,108],{},{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2401},[2402,2403,2404,2405,2406,2407],{"id":20,"depth":111,"text":21},{"id":30,"depth":111,"text":31},{"id":40,"depth":111,"text":41},{"id":50,"depth":111,"text":51},{"id":57,"depth":111,"text":58},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},{},{"title":5,"description":121},[134,135,136],{"id":2412,"title":2413,"author":6,"body":2414,"category":119,"date":2506,"description":2507,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":124,"imageAlt":125,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":2508,"navigation":128,"path":2509,"readTime":130,"seo":2510,"stem":2511,"tags":2512,"__hash__":2514},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftravel-between-two-jobs.md","Two jobs, one car: which journeys count",{"type":8,"value":2415,"toc":2499},[2416,2419,2423,2426,2429,2433,2440,2443,2447,2450,2453,2457,2464,2467,2470,2473,2475,2492,2494],[11,2417,2418],{},"More people hold two jobs than the tax rules were originally designed around, and the travel between them is where the confusion sits.",[18,2420,2422],{"id":2421},"the-default-each-job-has-its-own-commute","The default: each job has its own commute",[11,2424,2425],{},"If you work for two unconnected employers, the journey from home to each of them is ordinary commuting for that employment. Neither is claimable.",[11,2427,2428],{},"That includes the awkward middle case: finishing at job A, driving to job B. Even though it feels like a working journey rather than a commute, if the two employers are unconnected it is generally treated as commuting to the second job, not travel in the performance of duties for the first.",[18,2430,2432],{"id":2431},"the-exception-connected-employers","The exception: connected employers",[11,2434,2435,2436,2439],{},"Where the two employments are with ",[209,2437,2438],{},"connected"," employers — companies under common control, for example — travel between the two workplaces can be business travel rather than commuting.",[11,2441,2442],{},"This is the case most likely to be missed by people who work across a group, or who hold roles in two companies with the same owner. Those journeys can be claimable, and often are not claimed because they feel like commuting.",[18,2444,2446],{"id":2445},"the-temporary-workplace-overlay","The temporary workplace overlay",[11,2448,2449],{},"Everything from the 24-month rule still applies on top. If one of the two workplaces is genuinely temporary — a short assignment, a site with a defined end — travel to it may be claimable regardless of the other job.",[11,2451,2452],{},"Two tests, applied in order: is this workplace permanent or temporary for this employment, and if permanent, is the journey commuting or travel between connected employments.",[18,2454,2456],{"id":2455},"why-this-argues-for-recording-everything","Why this argues for recording everything",[11,2458,2459,2460,2463],{},"The pattern here is that the ",[106,2461,2462],{},"same physical journey"," can be claimable or not depending on facts that are not visible from the road: who employs whom, whether an assignment is expected to run past two years, whether an employer is connected to another.",[11,2465,2466],{},"Those facts can also change after the journey. A contract extends; a company is acquired; a temporary site becomes the permanent base.",[11,2468,2469],{},"If the journey was never recorded, none of that helps you. If it was recorded and classified, changing the classification later is trivial and the underlying evidence still holds.",[11,2471,2472],{},"That is the argument for logging everything and deciding afterwards, rather than deciding at the roadside whether a drive is worth writing down.",[18,2474,65],{"id":64},[67,2476,2477,2482,2487],{},[70,2478,2479],{},[73,2480,99],{"href":97,"rel":2481},[77],[70,2483,2484],{},[73,2485,469],{"href":467,"rel":2486},[77],[70,2488,2489],{},[73,2490,305],{"href":303,"rel":2491},[77],[101,2493],{},[11,2495,2496],{},[106,2497,2498],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Connected-employer cases turn on the detail: take advice before relying on one.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2500},[2501,2502,2503,2504,2505],{"id":2421,"depth":111,"text":2422},{"id":2431,"depth":111,"text":2432},{"id":2445,"depth":111,"text":2446},{"id":2455,"depth":111,"text":2456},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-01-22","Travel between separate employments, the second-job commute, and the rule that surprises people working for connected companies.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftravel-between-two-jobs",{"title":2413,"description":2507},"blog\u002Ftravel-between-two-jobs",[136,2513,505],"second job","wlj6Op3wGSx7givzpNIXD7wm8YIaJ4mYBcTYnrKdNLw",{"id":2516,"title":2517,"author":6,"body":2518,"category":119,"date":2632,"description":2633,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":124,"imageAlt":125,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":2634,"navigation":128,"path":2635,"readTime":130,"seo":2636,"stem":2637,"tags":2638,"__hash__":2640},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fdriving-abroad-for-work.md","Driving abroad for work: what you can still claim",{"type":8,"value":2519,"toc":2625},[2520,2523,2527,2530,2533,2537,2540,2566,2569,2573,2579,2585,2591,2593,2596,2599,2601,2618,2620],[11,2521,2522],{},"If you take your own car abroad on business, the mileage itself is treated much as it would be at home. Nearly everything else about the trip is treated differently, and that is where the money and the mistakes are.",[18,2524,2526],{"id":2525},"the-mileage","The mileage",[11,2528,2529],{},"Approved mileage allowance payments apply to business travel in your own vehicle. The rates are not restricted to UK roads — a business journey is a business journey, and the miles you drive in France on the way to a client count towards the same annual total as the miles you drove to get to the ferry.",[11,2531,2532],{},"That includes the 10,000-mile threshold. It is one running total for the tax year across all your own vehicles, wherever they were driven.",[18,2534,2536],{"id":2535},"the-costs-that-are-not-mileage","The costs that are not mileage",[11,2538,2539],{},"The mileage rate covers running the vehicle. It does not cover:",[67,2541,2542,2547,2552,2557,2561],{},[70,2543,2544],{},[209,2545,2546],{},"Ferries and tunnel crossings",[70,2548,2549],{},[209,2550,2551],{},"Foreign tolls and vignettes",[70,2553,2554],{},[209,2555,2556],{},"Emissions stickers and city permits",[70,2558,2559],{},[209,2560,708],{},[70,2562,2563],{},[209,2564,2565],{},"Additional insurance or breakdown cover for the trip",[11,2567,2568],{},"These are claimable separately where the journey is business, exactly as tolls and parking are at home. Keep them attached to the journey rather than in a pile.",[18,2570,2572],{"id":2571},"where-it-gets-complicated","Where it gets complicated",[11,2574,2575,2578],{},[209,2576,2577],{},"Mixed trips."," A week abroad that is three days of client work and four days of holiday is not wholly business. The travel there and back has to be apportioned, or may fail entirely if the primary purpose was personal. This is the single most contested area of foreign business travel and the one worth taking advice on.",[11,2580,2581,2584],{},[209,2582,2583],{},"Subsistence."," Meals and accommodation abroad have their own treatment, including HMRC's published overseas scale rates for some countries. That is a separate topic from mileage but usually part of the same trip.",[11,2586,2587,2590],{},[209,2588,2589],{},"Foreign exchange."," Costs paid in another currency need converting at a reasonable rate, applied consistently. Pick a method — the card's rate on the day is usually the cleanest — and use it for the whole trip.",[18,2592,1830],{"id":1829},[11,2594,2595],{},"The same as at home, plus a bit more: date, from, to, purpose, distance, and enough detail to show the business character of the trip if the days were mixed. A calendar of meetings alongside the journey log answers most questions before they are asked.",[11,2597,2598],{},"Milesheet records the drive by GPS wherever you are, so the distance is measured rather than estimated from a map afterwards — which matters more abroad, where the route you actually took and the route you planned are often not the same.",[18,2600,65],{"id":64},[67,2602,2603,2608,2613],{},[70,2604,2605],{},[73,2606,85],{"href":83,"rel":2607},[77],[70,2609,2610],{},[73,2611,99],{"href":97,"rel":2612},[77],[70,2614,2615],{},[73,2616,662],{"href":660,"rel":2617},[77],[101,2619],{},[11,2621,2622],{},[106,2623,2624],{},"General information for UK drivers, not tax advice. Mixed business and personal trips abroad are fact-sensitive: take advice.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2626},[2627,2628,2629,2630,2631],{"id":2525,"depth":111,"text":2526},{"id":2535,"depth":111,"text":2536},{"id":2571,"depth":111,"text":2572},{"id":1829,"depth":111,"text":1830},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-01-08","The approved rates do not stop at Dover, but almost everything around them changes.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdriving-abroad-for-work",{"title":2517,"description":2633},"blog\u002Fdriving-abroad-for-work",[136,2639,505],"travel abroad","iTICqzouifcs3oHSzT0sQzJ6iPoiv1AfbypgJPQe3VI",{"id":2642,"title":2643,"author":6,"body":2644,"category":119,"date":2744,"description":2745,"draft":122,"extension":123,"image":124,"imageAlt":125,"imageCredit":126,"imageCreditUrl":126,"imageIsScreenshot":122,"meta":2746,"navigation":128,"path":2747,"readTime":130,"seo":2748,"stem":2749,"tags":2750,"__hash__":2752},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ffuel-cards-and-mileage.md","Fuel cards and mileage claims: how they interact",{"type":8,"value":2645,"toc":2737},[2646,2649,2653,2660,2663,2666,2670,2677,2680,2683,2687,2690,2693,2697,2708,2711,2713,2730,2732],[11,2647,2648],{},"Fuel cards feel like they simplify things — the fuel is paid for, so surely there is nothing to claim. In practice they usually create more record-keeping, not less, because the question stops being \"what am I owed\" and becomes \"what did I use that I should not have\".",[18,2650,2652],{"id":2651},"your-own-car-employers-fuel-card","Your own car, employer's fuel card",[11,2654,2655,2656,2659],{},"If the card pays for fuel in ",[209,2657,2658],{},"your"," car, the employer is meeting a cost that is partly personal. That has consequences.",[11,2661,2662],{},"Fuel used on business journeys is a business cost. Fuel used on personal journeys — including your commute — that the employer paid for is a benefit, and it is taxable.",[11,2664,2665],{},"So the split between business and personal mileage stops being about what you can claim and starts being about what you owe. Get the log wrong in the generous direction and you have understated a benefit. That is a worse position than under-claiming.",[18,2667,2669],{"id":2668},"company-car-fuel-card-no-reimbursement","Company car, fuel card, no reimbursement",[11,2671,2672,2673,2676],{},"If the car belongs to the company and the card pays for all fuel including private use, that is the ",[209,2674,2675],{},"car fuel benefit",", which is a fixed charge based on the car's CO2 figure rather than on how much fuel you actually used.",[11,2678,2679],{},"The catch is that it is fixed. Someone doing very little private mileage can end up taxed as though they did a great deal, which is why some drivers repay the cost of private fuel instead — using Advisory Fuel Rates — to avoid the charge entirely.",[11,2681,2682],{},"Whether repaying beats being taxed is arithmetic, and it depends on your private mileage. You cannot do that arithmetic without a mileage record.",[18,2684,2686],{"id":2685},"company-car-business-fuel-only","Company car, business fuel only",[11,2688,2689],{},"The cleanest arrangement: the card is used for business fuel, private fuel is repaid or bought separately. Advisory Fuel Rates are the yardstick.",[11,2691,2692],{},"Here the mileage log is the entire basis of the split. Without it there is no defensible line between the two.",[18,2694,2696],{"id":2695},"the-common-thread","The common thread",[11,2698,2699,2700,2703,2704,2707],{},"In every version of this, the fuel card removes the ",[106,2701,2702],{},"payment"," but not the ",[106,2705,2706],{},"question",". Somebody still has to know how many of those miles were business, and the only way to know is to have recorded them as they happened.",[11,2709,2710],{},"Milesheet keeps each vehicle separate and records every journey with its own classification, so the business and private split is a number you can produce rather than an estimate you defend.",[18,2712,65],{"id":64},[67,2714,2715,2720,2725],{},[70,2716,2717],{},[73,2718,92],{"href":90,"rel":2719},[77],[70,2721,2722],{},[73,2723,78],{"href":75,"rel":2724},[77],[70,2726,2727],{},[73,2728,85],{"href":83,"rel":2729},[77],[101,2731],{},[11,2733,2734],{},[106,2735,2736],{},"General information, not tax advice. Fuel benefit rules are detailed and change: check current guidance before relying on this.",{"title":110,"searchDepth":111,"depth":111,"links":2738},[2739,2740,2741,2742,2743],{"id":2651,"depth":111,"text":2652},{"id":2668,"depth":111,"text":2669},{"id":2685,"depth":111,"text":2686},{"id":2695,"depth":111,"text":2696},{"id":64,"depth":111,"text":65},"2026-01-01","A fuel card does not remove the need for a mileage log. It usually makes it more important.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffuel-cards-and-mileage",{"title":2643,"description":2745},"blog\u002Ffuel-cards-and-mileage",[2751,136,1511],"fuel cards","UuEC3CLrJqfJu_MEF6agXqbVzVKMCb6KDY4l-bHzjbA",1787331053953]