Mileage that claims itself
Most people who could claim business mileage do not, because logging every trip by hand is a job nobody keeps up. Odomint does the logging.
An example drive: the route, the time actually moving, the top speed held and where it stopped.
How it works
- Every drive is recorded automatically. No start button, no stop button, nothing to forget. It uses the location updates iOS already provides, so it costs almost nothing in battery beyond what the app was doing anyway.
- Tag each drive business or personal with one tap. Nothing counts until you say so. See the note on commuting below.
- Your claim adds itself up as you go, at HMRC's approved rate or a rate you set yourself, so you can see what the year is worth at any point.
- Export it as a spreadsheet when it is time to file: date, time, from, to, miles, what each drive is worth, and a total.
- Add a drive by hand if one is ever missed: a flat phone, a trip you took in somebody else's car. The mileage is not lost.
What HMRC actually allows
The approved mileage rate for cars and vans is 55p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, and 25p a mile after that. Odomint applies the threshold as your year adds up, so the figure it shows is the figure you can claim.
Your rate, if it is different
Not everyone claims at 55p. If you are already past 10,000 business miles this tax year, set the rate to 25p. If your employer pays a flat rate per mile, enter it in pence. If you drove for work before you started using Odomint, add those miles and the drop to 25p lands at the right point. A past tax year always keeps the rate HMRC set for it.
Commuting does not count, and this matters
Travel between home and your regular workplace is ordinary commuting, not business travel, and it is most of most people's driving. That is exactly why Odomint leaves every drive untagged until you say what it was for. An app that guessed "business" would be helping you file an incorrect return; one that guessed "personal" would quietly hide money you are owed.
These are your figures, not tax advice
Odomint applies the published rate to the drives you have marked as business. It is a record for you and your accountant, not advice on what you may claim.
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