mileage expenses

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I am looking to find out what discount should be applied to the civil service mileage rate allowance per mile as the company currently paids for the petrol of the cars however does not pay for any other related car expenses.

is their a quoted discount rate if the company pays for your petrol and you pay for all other motor running expenses ? Or do you just make a best estimate.

barneystinson

The simple answer to your question is No, there's no such calculation to discount the civil service mileage rates.

I'm not sure exactly for what purpose you could want to calculate this figure anyway? The rate is only of use for situations where the employer IS paying employees a mileage rate, not a situation like yours where they are reimbursing the employee for some or all expenses actually incurred.

I'm totally second guessing your motive in asking that question, but you can't claim the mileage allowance from the Revenue. What you can do is submit a claim for car expenses and capital allowances, the form is available at http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/employee-expenses.html#section5.

However if you go down this road you are liable to be taxed on any reimbursement of petrol etc that you receive from your employer, and creating an annual headache for yourself, as you would be obliged to keep proper record of the various items the form needs details of...

For it to be of any benefit to you, you would have to have substantial other costs directly attributable to the business use of your private car, for which you aren't currently reimbursed.

A better alternative might be if you could get your employer to agree to reimburse you for a set of new tyres, or pay for a service of your car, or something like that, once a year...