Phew. Sorry, was just a little believable. I wouldn’t have put it past them to get rid of it and spin it as a positive sign of them valuing us.
Don’t listen to me. No body tells me nuffink
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Be careful … sometimes things said in jest become reality.
Wouldnt surprise me in the slightest.Same as mileage for HTD and travel to flying etc.Quite frankly the fact that it hasnt increased since Adam was a lad is a disgrace.25p per mile.If I do duties for my union they pay 35p and my work pays 47p.Yet MOD get away with paying 25p.Or perhaps its a deliberate policy to let it “wither on the vine” and then they can quietly kill it off a bit like they did with overseas allowance in the Falklands in the 1980s by saying it was a UK posting!
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Mileage was reduced to 25p/mile, what seems like ages ago. While at work we still got and get 45p/mile for private car business usage.
You can claim the other 20p back from HMRC as a tax code change
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How?!
https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/business-mileage-fuel-costs says;
Using your own vehicle
If you use your own vehicle for business, you may be able to claim ‘Mileage Allowance Relief’.
To work out how much tax relief you can claim, add up your business mileage for the tax year and multiply it by the approved mileage rates.
If your employer doesn’t pay you a mileage allowance you can claim the full approved amount of Mileage Allowance Relief.
If your employer pays you a mileage allowance but it is less than the approved amount, you can claim Mileage Allowance Relief on the difference.
If your employer pays you more than the approved amount you’ll have to pay tax on the difference.
In short
First 10,000 business miles = 45p per mile
Each mile over 10,000 business miles = 25p
So you could argue that by paying 25p they prevent us paying tax in case our FT job means we drive & claim more than 10,000 business miles a year.
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This is extremely difficult to claim back.
The process is pretty straight forward as its done online, you submit it and then about 4 weeks later you get them asking for individual dates, times, who authorised it, etc etc.
If you want to go down that route and claim it back then go ahead but for the extra £20 a year it would save me its not worth it IMO. I just threw the letter in the bin.
The first 2 years I claimed it was fine, but now they are becoming more and more picky.
See what you mean, I’m not that organised to record every record for mileage
I know a CFAV who managed to claim it all back
iirc it was in excess of £400 for the year.
the individual lived some distance from Squadron and did alot using their ML(S) so his mileage soon racked up.
All it takes is to produce your 1771s digitally and each time you claim save them as a different file. at a given point (annually/end of tax year?) collate the 1771s and you’ve got the data there.
And yet still HQAC claim we are not employees!
I would say it’s to save them a shed load of dosh each year as I imagine the 25p/mile is MoD wide and nothing as altruistic for our benefit.
It’s not the remaining amount you get back, it’s the tax on the remaining amount.
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Still, may pay for a couple of pints in the mess.
Or one set of new rank slides from ripoff direct 
Off topic but you don’t get the difference back. You get tax relief on the difference. Slight difference. Take it to a new thread otherwise.
Enjoy the new rank slides. They are horrible. They look over sized compared to the genuine RAF ones and the backing colour is not a very good match on both wedgewood or dark blue. MTP ones are ok though. They are also far too wide. Yes I bought some just to see…
Don’t suppose you want to put up a picture? Interested to see how badly they’ve done.