SE31225 - Employees using their own vehicles for work: rules from 2002/03 onwards - definitions - business travel

Paragraph 2, Schedule 12AA ICTA 1988 as introduced by Section 57 and Schedule 12 FA 2001

The legislation on approved mileage allowance payments (AMAPs) and mileage allowance relief (MAR) links the meaning of 'business travel' directly to the rules for Schedule E deductions under Section 198 ICTA 1988. That means that even though employees can no longer get deductions under Section 198 for actual expenditure for business travel in their own vehicles, the same rules continue to apply to determine the types of journeys that qualify for tax relief. See SE31800 onwards for guidance about journeys that qualify for tax relief.

The link to the Section 198 rules should be taken to mean that "business travel" also includes journeys that qualify for tax relief under the special rules for employees travelling to work outside the UK and for employees working but not domiciled in the UK.

For guidance on how the legislation on AMAPs and MAR applies to the special rules for -

  • employees travelling to work outside the UK - see SE34004
  • employees working but not domiciled in the UK - see SE35004