work expenses - tight or right aibu?

[NotMyDust]

I need to travel in to another town weekly for work. I'd need to use the train rather than drive but it's only a few stops further on from where the office is. OTOH I live about 1 hour away, twice the price.

They say I can't claim the train fare from home as its not my regular place of work, but I'd only be entitled to the train fare from where the office is.

Does this seem tight to anyone or is it normal and I've just had it really easy till now?

YABU = suck it up and stop being so entitled
YANABU = it's reasonable expenses and should be expensable.

Yes, that is standard.

Yes, they are right. Expenses can only be claimed from normal place of work to off site, not from home. Sometimes it will work in your favour though, it did for me.

Yep they are correct, expenses are to cover additional costs you have incurred during work, getting to your usual place of work is never covered

Can you buy two tickets? one to the office & another from the office to new location? and then expense the 2nd one?

Why can't you drive? trains are so expensive

That is true but so bad for the environment.

Yeah that's the rules. They aren't being tight. It's the extra distance from where your place if work is.

You live

Your work aren’t going to pay your travel expenses to and from the office.

They’ll pay anything over and above that. That’s how it normally works. I’m surprised you thought they would pay your home-to-work travel.

Try again. You live at A, work mostly at B, sometimes at C. So you buy your weekly pass from A to B and then a separate return ticket from B to C which you then submit as expenses.

Also, if you have any allowances that are a round pound amount eg £5, these are also taxable.

I live at A work mostly at B and drive to and from. C is another town on a different train line from my home. But I can only claim as if I was setting out from B .I think I understand. Just never heard of this before.

I will be driving to work as normal then claiming the rest of it as train tickets.

I was hoping to do the whole thing by train which is what they prefer officially. trains are expensive though.
I'd do it every day - if I didn't have to pay for it!!

anyway thanks for all your replies xx

So you are parking at work at taking the train from work to C?

Sorry to add to your burdens ...

If you are paid petrol expenses for travelling to other locations, your car insurance needs to cover business use rather than just commuting.

It actually depends on how far the destination is from your normal place of work. HMRC apply a 10-mile rule as illustrated in the example at
www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employment-income-manual/eim32306

An employee is a human resources manager who normally drives 9 miles to the office that is her permanent workplace. One day she has to visit a factory to discuss possible redundancies. The factory is 11 miles beyond her office. She drives the 20 miles to the factory along her ordinary commuting route and past her permanent workplace.
The factory is a temporary workplace. The journey from home to the factory is along the same route as her ordinary commuting journey but is substantially longer. So it is not substantially ordinary commuting. She is entitled to mileage allowance relief for the whole journey.
This example illustrates the practice of not treating a journey from home to a temporary workplace as ordinary commuting where the extra distance is 10 miles or more each way

The whole section begins at www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employment-income-manual/eim32300

Would they let you just do full train cost less cost to drive to office (mileage x applicable rate for claiming driving expenses)? We would be allowed to do that if driving was our normal way of getting to work