Mileage rates by country
What each tax authority pays per mile or kilometre, what it paid before, and how a claim is worked out. Every figure is taken from the authority that publishes it, and linked.
Checked against the source on 24 August 2026.
- United Kingdom55p per business mile, banded to 25p past 10,000
- Irelandthe civil service motor travel rates, by engine size and distance
- United States76 cents per business mile, with no threshold
- Canada73 cents per business kilometre, then 67 cents past 5,000
- Australia91 cents per business kilometre, capped at 5,000
- New Zealand$1.20 per business kilometre, then 37 cents past 14,000
- Deutschland30 cents per business kilometre, from the first one
- Österreich50 cents per business kilometre, capped at 30,000 km
- België0.4440 euro per business kilometre, reindexed quarterly
- España26 cents per business kilometre, tax free
- Nederland25 cents per business kilometre, untaxed
- Francethe barème kilométrique, by fiscal horsepower and distance
- 日本whatever rate your employer sets — there is no national one
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