Mileage - sharing a car with my partner

[chrisl]

My partner drives to work and claims 40p per mile.

To save me driving aswell, she drops me to my work which is on the way to hers. She has to pass it anyway every day.

We both have Ltd companies but can i also claim the 40p per mile based on the fact i would/should actually be driving, but sharing makes it a bit easier.

If we can both claim 40p then great


The other option is to pay my partner say £5 per day to cover travel expenses, would i then be able to claim this £5 myself as travelling expesnes even thought its only going to my partner and not a cab firm as such?

[xoggoth]

Seriously? Pretty sure you can't claim the expense or any part of it twice, however you do it.

[NickFitz]

We both have Ltd companies but can i also claim the 40p per mile based on the fact i would/should actually be driving, but sharing makes it a bit easier.

Don't be silly. Only one of you is incurring any expense. If you were both working away and sharing a hotel room, would you expect to be able to claim the cost of that twice? Would you expect to claim for each other's dinner?

The other option is to pay my partner say £5 per day to cover travel expenses, would i then be able to claim this £5 myself as travelling expesnes even thought its only going to my partner and not a cab firm as such?

Surely your partner would have to declare that as income? It all sounds like a lot more trouble than it's worth.

[chrisl]

Don't be silly. Only one of you is incurring any expense. If you were both working away and sharing a hotel room, would you expect to be able to claim the cost of that twice? Would you expect to claim for each other's dinner?



Surely your partner would have to declare that as income? It all sounds like a lot more trouble than it's worth.

lol, well you state exactly what i was thinking but thought i would check opinions anyway.

[lje]

You can claim 5p a mile.

http://www.sjdaccountancy.com/about/..._expenses.html

[Platypus]

Personally, I'd claim it as well. After all, who's to know?

[northernladuk]

WHS but...........

I would still be a tad cautious and make sure my a**e is covered in the following areas.....

1. You actually own 2 cars!
2. You do enough miles to cover this. Claiming 10k miles when ur car has done 5k not good.
3. You have enough petrol reciepts to cover said mileage

with those covered there is very little chance of getting found out, granted even without these chances of u getting found out or pretty slim but even if u do with these ur covered.