Mileage claim for running a GS for work journeys.

i was in a similar situation just recently,

25p for motorcycle
40p for car
20p for push biking!!!!
or 10p for walking!!!!!!!!!

i also get paid the difference in time it takes for me to get to site as opposed to the office. Now bear in mind i live just 2 miles away from the office and my site is presently 40 miles away it makes quite a big pay difference.

I contemplated saying i would push bike it... claim my extra 8 hrs of overtime in getting there... but then thought i would probably be dead.

Instead i just say i go in the car.... :augie
 
brianmaslen said:
........when I pointed out that if I could buy a car that would do 70mpg they would not adjust my rate at all so surely that would be misuseing the system, at which point he told me to go and do that instead! ......
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The revenue rates are certainly designed to do just that. They don't want to give you more per mile for a big car (as they used to) so they just make it a flat rate and then it pays for the user to be economical with fuel. Bikes always were a flat rate, although I suspect based on something cheaper to run than a GS.
 
I'm sure you've taken care of this, but from my experience of using personal vehicles, just make sure your vehicle insurance certificate clearly shows your occupation and that you are insured for its usage in connection with your work or profession. Your employers may well ask to see your documents.
 
You get a generous allowance each month which is used to fund all motoring costs with the exception of fuel.

You get 15p per mile to cover petrol costs when you use your vehicle on business.

This is not an unusual arrangement.

There is a misconceptions that motorbikes are supereconomical. After all a GS ain't a moped...

Keep your fuel receipts for a while and log your mileage, then calculate your mpg and the true cost per mile for fuel. This will be in line with a car for sure at ~35 mpg.

Also point out that you use the bike sometimes to save time. This saved time of course benefits your employer as you get more work done. Present a calculation here too.

Then tell your bean counter to get real (in a polite way of course) !
 
I am covered for business use on both car and bike so no problem there. As for saving time that is the whole object of using the bike really, but of course the bean counter doesn't give a damn as long as I manage the 9 to 5:30 hours working time. The majority of my mileage will be done in the car so I claim that at 15ppm so its just a case of recording which days I use the bike and managing that at 9.5ppm. We have a push on to reduce trips where possible so I guess this will reduce the number of trips to the office and I will not be mentioning the ones to client sites where I use the bike! Of course the extra hours that I put in for the company working overseas and staying overnight are just for the good of the company and I do not get extra pay for this...its all a bit one sided really but good jobs are hard to find.
 
brianmaslen said:
Can anyone direct me to a source of information, or forward something that shows the average/combined/motorway fuel consumption for a 2006 1200GS please. I get a car alowance from work and petrol repaid at 15p per mile for using the car, but one of our bean counters has decided that as I use my bike occassionally for travel to the office it could be viewed as fraud for me to claim 15ppm. Apparently they think my bike does 80mpg so they want to pay me 5ppm. I only use the bike to knock my journey down by 45 minutes each way, 198 mile round trip!
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I can only give you my own experience of running a big bike. Fuel aprox 45 mpg car and bike. Insurence car 250 euro bike 450. Tyers300 car and bike but car tyers lasts 4 to 5 times longer. I find serviceing more expensive on the bike and then you must factor in bike clothing and depraciation which is more on a bike in my experience. One euro per mile would be more like it .
 
Andrew Lodge said:
IIRC the Inland Revenue allowable payment for using a motorcycle is 24ppm. I don't think there is a break point in the same way that it is 40ppm for cars for the first 10k and then 25ppm after that.

These of course are the maximum tax free figures, if they pay more than that the difference is taxable.
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You can claim the differnce between what your company pays you and what the tax man deems the rate to be, therefore if you are in the 40% bracket you will get back 40% of the difference between the 2
 
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