Cool Hal
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In my job I use that amount some weeks but it is not usual and have on occasions filled up twice. I travel up and down the country tho. As his boss you should now where he has been and if it is legit or not.
Additionally if he is using his own car he should be entitled to claim millage at £0.40 for the first 10,000 miles and then £0.25 for additional miles - you may find you are getting off lightly
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Judy1
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Receipts just show that someone bought that amount of petrol, not that it was used for driving for his job. If the amount sounds way out of line for the driving he did, ask him for a log of the miles and where he drove. If it sounds anywhere near reasonable, I'd just reimburse him. |
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Fred
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it is around .99p per litre of unleaded at the moment. I spent £25 on petrol to drive from London to Stoke (around 3 1/2 hours each way) so likely he may be trying it. It would involve a ridiculous amount of miles to accumulate that amount and he wouldn't have time to do any work.
Unfortunatly for you, there is no proof so not much you can do. What I would recommend is that you create a milage expenses form to be submitted with reciepts that would allow you to track how many miles have been driven. You would have a much better control over the expenses then. |
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Leftfoot
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Sounds like you'll have to wear it this time, MayFly. However from now on confiscate the company car and make your employee travel by space hopper. |
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Smoby J
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Ask him where he's been driving and was it all business use?
Fair enough if its all legit , but its you who should have an idea of what milage he/shes done? |
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The Frog and Sausage
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Doing some rough calculations.....
140 pounds will get you about 140 litres of fuel.
140 L is about 31 gal(UK).
Now, dependsing on how fuel hungry the car is, will depend on how much fuel you use. Cars generally do between 30-45 miles to the gallon (again, rough averages).
To use 31 gallons of fuel at 35 miles per gallon, your employee must have driven about 1050 miles. That's further than driving from John O' Groats to Paris.
On the other hand, that's an average of 175 miles per day working on my figures. Not knowing your business, or what your employee has to do/where he has to go, I couldn't say if that's normal..... Have you had him do a lot of globe trotting this week?
I would simply ask him where he has been for you.... and roughly how many business miles he has done for you.
As others have said, receipts just prove that someone bought some fuel. His wife? His Aunty?....... I'm sure you're well within your rights to question it ! |
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motivation
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its simple really.
get a list of all the places he has been to.
go to mapquest.com & figure the miles to & from.
add them all up.
ask what kind of car he drives so that you can figure the MPG. (fueleconomy.gov)
add up all the miles & divide by MPG
that gives you the total gallons of fuel used.
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quizzie quiz
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£140 over six day, who cares if they're doing there job.
Get a life and get a season ticket for the mighty seasiders 'Blackpool FC til I die'
sh*t head-fly |
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katt121
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Hmmm - personal use by any chance? Dont you know where he has been? |
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DudeMatt
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At the moment people are feeling the pinch and pull a few "fast ones" to make ends meet, i admit i do it on my own business mileage claim, but then theres taking the piss.
Obviously dont make accusations but have a delve into the situation.
About the double receipts, make sure theyre not for same transaction some places have a VAT receipt and normal seperately. i get them all the time. |
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allen555
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It would not be difficult to rack up that amount of mileage in 6 days. You must know where he has been. |
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