I work for a client who occasionally asks me to attend meetings at one of his facilities 125 miles away. Their expense policy is to only permit personal vehicle use for journeys less than 80 miles round-trip and to use a hire car for anything longer. So I hire a car through their arrangement with Avis on my personal credit card and then submit an expense claim to my agency which as been signed by a director within the client's management team. The agency pays my umbrella company the values ex VAT and the umbrella company treats this like my weekly salary so I claim the same expenses to the umbrella company to recover the VAT and tax and NI. This has worked fine 5 or 6 times since my contract started in April.
However, with my most recent hire car claim they have only paid 5/7s of the hire car and fuel value as they're saying that's all HMRC will allow as it's been less than 45 days since my last car hire. What on earth is this about? Any insight would be appreciated.
However, with my most recent hire car claim they have only paid 5/7s of the hire car and fuel value as they're saying that's all HMRC will allow as it's been less than 45 days since my last car hire. What on earth is this about? Any insight would be appreciated.
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