mac12:
Now i understand they have stopped it so regular and agency workers are the same but when i did agency work i was told the agency office was my place of work and from there they sent me where needed so i couldn’t claim travel to the office but i could to my place of work. If the work place was 10 miles from my house but 20 miles from the agency i claimed 20. This was all PAYE
My wife works for a firm and if she’s sent to another office she gets mileage just the same as contractors sent on jobs away from base, how will that work?
That’s not in accordance with HMRC rules unless you were actually required to go to the office each day and then, having been allocated to a particular client you traveled to that client’s premises. You cannot simply nominate the agency office as your workplace and then claim tax relief on travel from there to the client’s premises unless your attendance at the office (a) actually happened and (b) was necessary for the performance of your duties.
Roymondo:
That’s not in accordance with HMRC rules unless you were actually required to go to the office each day and then, having been allocated to a particular client you traveled to that client’s premises. You cannot simply nominate the agency office as your workplace and then claim tax relief on travel from there to the client’s premises unless your attendance at the office (a) actually happened and (b) was necessary for the performance of your duties.
Yep that’s the one. I think basically we can all agree its come to an end and if you want to take the risk its up to you but I’d put the money aside just in case.
Agencies like it because they don’t have to pay employer NI so they get to keep more of what the client pays them. They also avoid having to pay you for holidays etc.