Claiming mileage and travel as an expense

As a director, you can claim your mileage or travel as an expense

Claiming mileage

As a director of a UK limited company, you are not able to expense petrol receipts into the company, however, you can claim mileage.

HMRC allows 45p per mile for the first 10,000 and then 25p thereafter. Please note this renews each year.

 

The general rule is that expenses must be “wholly, exclusively and necessary” for business purposes. As the company director, you are responsible for ensuring that all expenses reported in the accounts are solely for the purpose of the business.

 

How to claim

To claim mileage the client needs to record the miles they have travelled through the year on a mileage log see an example below, it must include:

  • Date

  • From location

  • To location

  • Miles travelled

  • Rate (45p or 25p)

  • Total

Example of a mileage claim

Please find an example of a mileage log below:

 

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Claiming travel

You can claim for travel as long as the travel is wholly and exclusively for the property or company. 

What we need from you

For any travel expense claim, we will require a full invoice/receipt. 

 


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