Mileage Rates

blacklilly

Apologies if this is the worng place for this thread.

What millage rates are those of you being paid who use your cars for work?

Revenue suggests certain rates on a scaled basis dependant upon cc of vehicle, just wondering if your employer used these rates or pay a different rate?

Toyotafanboi

anytime i've had to drive for work it's been 50c per km.

MuppetCheck

We get them based on engine size, two litre or over is the maximum band. Bought a 2.2 once and had the cost to change to it payed in less than a year:D

blacklilly

We are currently getting 44c per km. I drive a 2.0l tdi and I was thinking of raising the issue with my boss but I don't wanna come across as unreasonable.

ironclaw

blacklilly wrote: »

We are currently getting 44c per km. I drive a 2.0l tdi and I was thinking of raising the issue with my boss but I don't wanna come across as unreasonable.

I'm not following. You must be making money at that rate? Even at 35mpg your burning 6.72 litres of fuel for every 100km. So 1km would use 0.0672L of fuel, or at €1.44 a litre, thats about 10c worth of fuel

0lddog

blacklilly wrote: »

We are currently getting 44c per km. I drive a 2.0l tdi and I was thinking of raising the issue with my boss but I don't wanna come across as unreasonable.

I'm thinking that you wont be raising the issue in that case :rolleyes:

MuppetCheck

ironclaw wrote: »

I'm not following. You must be making money at that rate? Even at 35mpg your burning 6.72 litres of fuel for every 100km. So 1km would use 0.0672L of fuel, or at €1.44 a litre, thats about 10c worth of fuel

Often mileage is done outside of normal working hours. So it should account for time in the car, something towards depreciation and maintenance. If you're doing significant work mileage you should be looking at almost double the 44c a mile to make it worthwhile.

Take someone on €25 per hour, they would need to cover almost 60 miles at that rate to cover their time alone. That's serious going in an hour if it's not all motorway.

blacklilly

0lddog wrote: »

I'm thinking that you wont be raising the issue in that case :rolleyes:

Your comment is not hepful, furthermore you have elaborated on how I'm being unreasonable.

glic71rods46t0

You haven't supplied enough information to ascertain if you are being reasonable or not. The maximum allowable mileage rate for your engine size as per revenue commissioners is:
First 6437 kms - 59.07c per km
6438+ kms - 28.46 per km

How many kms do you claim for per annum?
Is the 44c rate a "blended" rate applicable for mileage in excess of 6437kms?

If you supply the total km's claimed in a year and the differing rates at which you are allowed to claim it would be easy to compare that with the revenue approved rates.
All that said, mileage is not the cashcow that it once was. In days of cheaper fuel the max allowable rate per km was once 78.76c! (up to 2009)

blacklilly

The 44c rate is applicable across the board regardless of annual millage. I'm currently doing c 5,000 km p.a.

I completely understand that millage rates are not to be treated as a benefit, my argument is that it would be a fairer system if my company used a rates scale based upon cc of the vehicle, as revenue does.

The reason I've started a thread is to try and establish what rates other companies pay.

L1011

Every employer I've worked for has used the Revenue / Civil Service rates. If you go over those, you'll be paying tax - it would appear to me that anyone with a very small engine in your company should be paying if the 44c is flat for everyone.