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I am directly employed by a company and have done a tax return for the last 4 years to claim my mileage.

I regularly hear stories about people getting twice as much money back as I do by getting an accountant to do their return rather than doing it themselves like I do.

Is anybody else directly employed and doing their own return and does anybody know of a decent and reliable accountancy firm that can be trusted to not have my pants down?
 
easiest way is to book all your work mileage for the year and then claim the 45p/mile ( might be more now) that HMRC allow.
 
It's not the process that is the problem. I'm just interested to know if anybody has been in the same boat and found that by getting accountant to do their return, they received more back
 
Lots of folk seem to have a tendancy to say they recieved more than others to make them seem superior.

Dont forget that if you get a accountant it will cost you so ypu,cpuld end up more out of pocket if you are only claiming your mileage.
 
as above. get back an extra £50 and then pay the leech ( sorry, accountant) £100. + VAT. for the expert ( cough) help.

sure if you can do volt drop calcs. and the like, a few add -ups and take-away sums is not too taxing.
 
Yeah that's my thinking as well. I just can't seem to see how I can get about 1k and nearly all others claim to be getting double
 
I get paid travel time and expenses. For example this week I have been paid £96.24 and travelled a total of 620 miles. I'm not sure how it works out per mile.
 

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