Allowable travel expenses - employment

Sports reporter travel and subsistence costs

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Hi, Wondering if anyone can just confirm as I'm sure I am overthinking this. Employed local radio reporter covers the local sports team, he attends all matches home and away in a national league but does not receive any travel allowance. Therefore presumably there are no issues claiming for travel / subsistence against his employment income when attending away matches, however could there be an issue with home matches / permanent workplace. 

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By Accountant A
31st May 2019 14:29

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By Vile Nortin Naipaan
31st May 2019 15:03

To be fair to Anonymous, he wrote some fuching good poems.

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By tonycourt
02nd Jun 2019 17:40

Yawn!

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By Tax Dragon
02nd Jun 2019 21:06

Tony, you are of course familiar with the points that AA makes. You know that some people don't share their knowledge with Anonymous OPs.

But it's possible that Anonymous is more than one person. Had you thought of that? So neither AA nor you knows whether this anonymous knows what the last anonymous knows.

I think it's very thoughtful, considerate - even diligent - of AA to keep sharing this information.

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By tonycourt
02nd Jun 2019 21:15

Valid points if that AA's thinking . But neither you nor I know that for sure. Frankly, the use of this stock reply comes across snarky and unhelpful.

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By Tax Dragon
03rd Jun 2019 06:47

But it's true, so in fact helpful no matter how it's intended and no matter how it comes across to you.

You forget, although Anonymous comes across as a regular user (and as such would anticipate AA's stock reply), it's more likely it's lots of irregular users to whom the reply will be fresh news. (Even though they ought to have read that info when they posted... you do realise that AA is doing no more than quote Sift itself?)

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By Jdopus
31st May 2019 15:02

I'd say you're probably overthinking it - presumably he doesn't do his actual writing at a sports stadium. In my mind HMRC would have a difficult time arguing that someone's permanent workplace is a sports stadium, his permanent workplace is most likely his employer's office.

I would be perfecetly happy to claim full subsistence allowance.

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By legerman
03rd Jun 2019 10:55

Presumably his base is the radio station? Is he using his own vehicle or a company vehicle?

Assuming radio station base and own vehicle, travelling to any match as part of his job is allowable. I'd be a bit miffed if my employer wasn't paying me mileage though, £18 tax relief for a 200 mile round trip may not even cover the fuel.

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By Gone Sailing
07th Jun 2019 17:41

Private element?
Weekly shopping on the way home?
A drink with the other reporters after the match?
HMRC might be spoil sports.

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