How do you record mileage?

[Eirikur]

I am based far away from my client and at the moment I do around 2800 miles per month.
I keep a spreadsheet with traveled distances by day, in respect to the client.
Is this enough? How do you do it?

Do similar distances and this is how I do it for the last 8 years

[Eirikur]

Yeah, which eejit would run a contractor accountancy with just a crappy spread sheet

Not SJD they have a portal now

[Wijay@WISAccountancy]

I am based far away from my client and at the moment I do around 2800 miles per month.
I keep a spreadsheet with traveled distances by day, in respect to the client.
Is this enough? How do you do it?

Excel is fine for record keeping but ensure 10K miles are accumulated correctly for personal Financial year. In addition to recording miles, we advise clients to keep fuel receipts, Yearly MOT certs, Contracts as proofs in case HMRC wants to investigate.

[BR14]

Yeah, which eejit would run a contractor accountancy with just a crappy spread sheet

I manged successfully for thirty odd years

[MonkeysUncle]

I used MileIQ
Handy little app that records your travel. You can then swipe right if its a personal trip (doesnt get recorded) or swipe left for a business trip.
Automatically works out your expense cost and provided a handy little print out detailing all of the journeys made in a month to present if needed.
Once installed it also runs in the background automatically which was good for me as I often used to forget about recording the travel, this used to record all of them and then I just categorise them. The free version only lets you record 40 drives but its quite cheap (£5/month) so worth paying for the premium.

https://www.mileiq.com/

[SimonMac]

Nope, this is other role.
I dont use FA, might be easier, but I dont fee like paying for it.

Swap your business account to NatWest and you will get it for for free*









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