Food delivery drivers

Durtburd

Can delivery drivers claim tax reliefs on expenses e.g. fuel, tyres, vehicle maintenance? Would you be better off being paye or self employed?

Macker1

Are they declaring the income earned from this work in the first place would be a question to be asked.

punisher5112

Many aren't even insured correctly.

I actually can't understand how it's worth while for the likes of deliveroo and Uber eats as pay is rubbish.... I know not cars but still.

It's up to them to inform revenue of earnings and they will deduct whatever tax they deem correct.

Only way one could claim such expenses would be if they are running as a business themselves or if they have a contract where they can claim fuel or mileage expense as they call it.

If you are talking about van drivers that would be doing parcel delivery such as dpd where the driver owns the van and are their own boss as such but carry out the delivery for DPD.

This is a very good model for these companies as they pass all the expenses and worry to that driver and basically don't have to worry about paying for holidays, sick pay or pension and so on....

Durtburd

For the purposes of the question let's assume they are declaring the income.

punisher5112

Durtburd wrote: »

For the purposes of the question let's assume they are declaring the income.

Vat qualifying then yes they could claim vat on diesel etc.

For company expenses such as tyres, vehicles itself etc they could get certain tax relief.