Hi
An employee has hired a car for 24 hours to bring a number of colleagues to head office about 40 miles away for the Christmas party. He will be driving them back again at the end of the evening. This is the only thing he will be using the vehicle for. The company has agreed to pay the costs of the car hire.
He is wanting to claim for the cost of the vehicel (£48) plus the fuel to return the vehicle with a full tank (£30) at the end of the hire period.
My question whether he can claim for the fuel or whether he should be claiming a mileage allowance (which I believe would be 14.1p per mile for this vehicle.
Thanks
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Why is he buying the hire company a full tank of fuel ?
Round here, you pick up a car with enough fumes in the tank to get you to the nearest garage. You take it back with some fuel in which is then siphoned off by the hire company employees to fill their own cars.
Having said that, as long as it's reasonable, happening once a year and the bloke fetches in the bills, I'd pay it. Hire cars are different to the employee's own car. The employee's not gaining anything from the petrol he leaves in the tank.
I don't mind. Either is OK by me.
Well, as you mention it, neither am I. I'm not being asked to pay.
I don't mind either!
As to the £30 fuel, the OP says the employee is picking up colleagues and "bringing" them to HO which implies that is where the driver is located. The OP also says it is 40 miles away. So that may be 80 miles or more on the inward journey. Then there is likely to be more than 40 miles to take them home afterwards plus own travel home plus returning the car next day. £30 might not be too much for something like 150 - 200 miles travel. The hire company employees might not get a Xmas present out of this car!
Edit
Many hire companies give the car with a full tank and require it to be returned with the same. Just depends on the company.
Oh. I didn't read as much into "bring" as you did. I see your point.
I agree with your interpretation, Dragon.
"Bring" - You are there. You collect something that's there and come here with it.
Inward journey 40 miles.
"Fetch" - You are here. You go there to collect something that's there and come back here with it.
Inward journey 80 miles.
Still, we're fussing about a few quid on a journey that'll happen once a year.
Many hire companies give the car with a full tank and require it to be returned with the same. Just depends on the company.
If that's so, I'm struggling to see how he'll fit in £30 worth of fuel after an 80 mile run. What is this hire vehicle ? A Wrightbus StreetDeck ?
My XFR only does 14mpg !!
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Greta Thunberg will be round later to give you one of her hard stares.
Is everyone completely utterly totally and absolutely happy that the rewritten Ch6 cannot remotely possibly be applied by even the most zealous of scrooge-like Inspectors someone hypothesised?
A tax charge on a fuel benefit would not be a nice present.
It does look as if the employee driver is going to take the vehicle home overnight and so is being provided with both the private use of the car and the fuel....