Hi – I’m trying to add mileage. It wants me to select an employee. But I’m a sole trader so not an employee of my business. So I haven’t been able to complete the task.

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Hi – I’m trying to add mileage. It wants me to select an employee. But I’m a sole trader so not an employee of my business. So I haven’t been able to complete the task.

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Peter Connor ⋅ Staff August 14, 2016
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Hi,

As a sole trader you can’t claim mileage. That’s why you can’t do it. That tax facility is only avaiblie for limited companies under irish law. 
Thanks Pete

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  1. jamiemonagan1 August 14, 2016
    Wow - didn't know that!
  2. Peter Connor August 14, 2016
    We never know why people bother with sole trader. There was a time the accounting fees were huge but with products like Bullet automating all your mid year tax they're not.
    A trip from Cork to Dublin return with an un receipted overnight stay is probably worth about 500 quid to you.
  3. jamiemonagan1 August 14, 2016
    Ah, so maybe I'm not a sole trader! I haven't formally registered as one. I receive a monthly fee for work I do for a company. I'm not on staff - I'm a consultant. I go there for meetings about twice a month, 30km each way. Can I claim that mileage?
  4. Peter Connor August 14, 2016
    You are either An employee of a company, a sole trader or a limited company.
    Sounds like you're a sole trader. So you can't claim mileage and even if you were a limited company you can't claim mileage to your place of work.
    Hope that helps. Pete
  5. jamiemonagan1 August 14, 2016
    Yes, though it's not the answer I wanted to hear!
  6. jamiemonagan1 August 14, 2016
    This raises another question. I also use Bullet for Loominations. I've been adding mileage for myself as an employee for sales trips that I make. I'm a sole trader - I 'am' Loominations. So I shouldn't have been doing this? I can't claim for expenses incurred while travelling for my business?
  7. Peter Connor August 14, 2016
    No you can can claim expenses for travel for your own business, but not as a Sole Trader.
    You can't claim sales trips either. You could claim anything outside of traveling to and from your workplace and sales trips.
    Pete
  8. Peter Connor August 14, 2016
    So you can't claim any of that mileage I'm afraid.
  9. jamiemonagan1 August 14, 2016
    OK, thanks.
  10. casesensitive September 7, 2023
    You could look yourself up on https://core.cro.ie/ and see what you're registered as. And if it's not a Limited Company, go and do that, I used a setup company to do it, cost €180, or less than 1 Cork trip.

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