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Step 4: Travel and mileage, how to complete it

Which work journeys count, the three quick questions, and how to add a journey.

Written by Megan

This is task 4 of 5 on your Home screen. For many people it is the biggest part of a claim, so it is worth a few minutes.

Where to find it

On your Home screen, tap Travel and mileage. The web address is app.taxpro.co.uk/claims/<your claim>/travel-and-mileage.

Which journeys count

Travel to a temporary workplace counts: another site, a client or patient visit, a training course your employer required, or a branch or ward that is not your usual one. A workplace stays temporary if you expect to work there for under 24 months.

Your normal commute does not count. Home to your usual workplace is ordinary commuting and HMRC does not allow it. This is the most common mistake.

Three quick questions first

  1. Did you travel for work to places other than your permanent workplace?

  2. Did you pay for any of that travel yourself?

  3. Did your employer pay you back? Pick Only some of it if they paid a lower mileage rate, or covered fuel but not parking.

If you only ever travelled to one fixed workplace, or someone else covered every cost, travel comes off your list and you have one less task.

Adding a journey

  1. Choose how you made the trip. For your own vehicle, enter the registration (we check it with DVLA). For a fare, enter the one way cost; tick return and we double it.

  2. Enter where you travelled from and to, the purpose, and which job it was for. We work out the miles from the postcodes.

  3. Say how often you made it (a typical week is fine) and which tax years it applies to.

  4. Add any other costs you paid yourself on that trip, such as parking, tolls, meals or overnight stays.

  5. Add evidence if you have it (rotas, calendar screenshots, receipts or a log book). This is optional.

You do not need an entry for every day. One entry per regular journey, with how often you made it, is enough. To add a similar trip, tap the copy icon on a journey and change only what differs.

Company vehicles

Mileage in a company owned vehicle cannot be claimed, but parking and tolls can.

Do you need receipts?

You do not need evidence to submit. For mileage, a record of the journeys is enough. For parking, meals, tolls and overnight stays, keep whatever receipts you have. Keep them for 22 months in case HMRC asks.

Not sure whether a journey counts? Tell us where you travelled from and to, and how often, and we will tell you.

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