Question for anyone who claims mileage - really stuck

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I am stuck as to what to do

My work base is officially my office. Of course, I do not claim for journeys to my contracted place of work.

2 or 3 days a week I am based elsewhere and have been claiming for this. I set off from home, but I claim office to site for these 2 or 3 days. I have recently been told I can also claim from site back to office at the end of the day, even though I just go home.

This will obviously double the miles I claim for per month. I am worried about it being in any way fraudulent as I don’t genuinely make that journey: I set off from home rather than my office on those days, yet I still need to claim from the office to my destination as the office is my official place of work.

Can anyone advise whether it’s ok to claim back to the office at the end of each day I am at site?

Thanks very much :)

I’d work out home to normal base, and back (A) Then work out your total journey on the non normal office days, ie start from home, drive to work , drive home, and subtract A from the new total.

this works if normal days are one direction and the non normal days are in the opposite direction

It’s hard as I get the train to the office but drive to the alternative site so I don’t really know what the difference would be, it’s not easy to directly compare

Use AA route planners or Google Maps to find out the difference

my base is x and is 3.5 miles away, so a total of 7 miles. But I go on the bus.

when I go to y office, in the opposite direction, it is 10 miles away, so 20 miles . I claim for 20 miles minus 7 miles, so 13 miles.

We do this same as @isthewashingdryyet

It doesn't matter how we would normally travel to base. We are asked to use Google maps to calculate mileage.

When I was in this situation previously, I could only claim any increase in mileage between work and home/site.

Use Google Maps or similar and check miles home to base site. Then the same to site 2. E.g. home to base = 10 miles. Home to site 2 = 15 miles so claim 5 miles x 2 for return journey. Site 3 = 8 miles, nothing to claim.

You need to ask your employer for their guidance on this