Section 229 — Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003: Mileage allowance payments

Mileage allowance payments 229 1 No liability to income tax arises in respect of approved mileage allowance payments for a vehicle to which this Chapter applies (see section 235).

2 Mileage allowance payments are amounts, other than passenger payments (see section 233), paid to an employee for expenses related to the employee’s use of such a vehicle for business travel (see sections 235A and 236(1)) .

3 Mileage allowance payments are approved if, or to the extent that, for a tax year, the total amount of all such payments made to the employee for the kind of vehicle in question does not exceed the approved amount for such payments applicable to that kind of vehicle (see section 230).

4 Subsection (1) does not apply if—

a the employee is a passenger in the vehicle, or b the vehicle is a company vehicle (see section 236(2)).