Nanny charging mileage

[siliconglen]

Hi
I use a nanny who lives approx 4 miles from where she picks up the children to start her working day.
However, she also has a day job which is 1 mile from where she picks up my children and she starts the day job first
In order to bring the children back to the house from the pick up point, it's approximately 8 miles.

She is presenting me with a bill for 46 miles a day - the distance from he house, via the pick up point, back to the house and then the return trip, i.e. 23 miles each way. As measured on Google maps it is 13 miles each way making a total of 26 miles total, not 46.

I am arguing that I'm only paying her for hours she looks after the children not the costs of her getting to/from work, ie this is just the 8 miles from pick up point to drop off at the house.

Separately since she is actually doing another job first, I don't see why I should pay the costs of her getting to that job.

I feel I'm being taken for a ride here and when I questioned it, she handed in her notice. I then said I would pay her for the last week after I had properly audited the previous week's bill, meaning she would get paid on the Tuesday following the completed weeks work the previous Friday.

Can someone actually clarify what mileage it is conventional to pay for in these circumstances?

thanks

police??
maybe tax office would like to have a look through both your affairs though

There is nothing to stop you paying her travel mileage (or indeed time) from home, if that is what you agree. The only downside (for her, and for you in terms of complicating your admin) is that the mileage to and from work would be a taxable benefit. That is why a lot of contracts specify that home-work mileage is not paid. If you had sorted out contracts before she began work, this problem could have been avoided.

Given that you have no written agreement I would reimburse what mileage she did during work hours and let her quit. Then make sure you do things properly with the next nanny.