Cars and vans
55p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year from 6 April 2026 - it was 45p before - and 25p a mile after that.
Free mileage allowance calculator
How much mileage can you claim?
Business miles in a car or van are 55p a mile for the first 10,000 from 6 April 2026, and 25p after. See what you can claim as a self-employed expense, or what your employer can pay you without tax - and the relief if they pay less.
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HMRC's rates
55p from 6 April 2026.
Motorcycles and bicycles
Motorcycles are 24p a mile. Bicycles are 20p for an employee using their own; simplified expenses for the self-employed do not cover them.
Rate or real costs
Self-employed, you can use the rate or the vehicle's actual costs. Once you use the rate for a vehicle you keep using it for that vehicle, and you cannot also claim its running costs or capital allowances.
HMRC's own tables: Simplified expenses - vehicles and Mileage Allowance Payments.
What Stoneledger does
A mileage log that compares for you.
- Every journey logged, with the rate worked out as the miles add up.
- The rate against the real costs, so you can see which claims more for your vehicle.
- Into your tax, with nothing typed twice.
Every journey, and what it is worth.
A mileage log that works out the claim, and compares it with the real costs.