NIM05701 - Class 1 NICs: Expenses and Allowances: Mileage allowances: Introduction
In broad terms, mileage allowances fall into two main categories:
- payments aimed at covering a range of expenses connected with motoring. These are normally paid to those employees who are required to use a privately owned car for business travel, see NIM05702
- payments only for fuel. Employers may pay these to employees who use vehicles the employer provides, see NIM16175; or they may pay them to employees who use a privately owned car for business travel, see:
- NIM05708 for payments made before 6 April 2002; and
- NIM05800 for payments made after 5 April 2002.
Where, unusually, an employer pays a mileage allowance to an employee wholly for private travel, see:
- NIM05708 where the car is privately owned for payments made before 6 April 2002
- NIM05800 where the car is privately owned for payments made after 5 April 2002
- NIM16175 where the employer provides an employee with a car.
The definitions and rules applied to determine qualifying business travel, including business mileage, are the same for both tax and NICs, see EIM32015.