Successful jobs requiring travel?

I have 3 jobs and two addresses. Can I claim tax relief on travel to and from my secondary employments.?

• I have 3 jobs. Job A Comes with free accommodation which is required by my employer. This job provides me with my main source of income. Job B I work part time for a football club. At the end of the tax year I do get a P60 from them. Job C I am self employed as a gardener. I done my own tax return last year in which I declared all my jobs. I filled out my employment pages for each job and also a self employment (short) form for my gardening job. This coming year I would like to claim the cost of travel to and from my part time employer and also under my self employment status as a gardener most if not all my travel in my car is related to one or the other jobs. I would also like to claim the maintenance of the car including tax. Is this possible. Also Last year all my jobs were linked to one address. Should I use one addresses for my main employer (Job A) and then use my secondary address for both my self employed job and also my part time job? Can I do this? Looking at last years tax return there is nowhere on the employment pages allowing you to indicate which postal address the jobs are linked to. There is a place on the self employment page though. What would be my best options as I am sure I did not claim for everything I should have done last year.

• Answer:

  OK - fun one and I am now out of date on this. As you are self-assessment your case would go to an S.A. hub (don't ask). So not 100% as I dont have access to my database here. Travel between a "home base" and a regular place of work is NOT deductible. Commuting is forever beyond the claimable. Travel to a variable place of employment - like a nurse doing visits to different clients each day MAY be deductible - note that "may" - all cases involving this sort of flexibility and mileage are passed to technicians who have this as one of their specialities (sorry but we work that way). You would do best to phone a contacr centre and ask to speak to a technician and INSIST on talking then or getting a call-back. We hate having multiple addresses - our system does not like it and you give no reason for wanting split addresses. Unless you can show a compelling reason we will not use different addresses for different functions. You are one person with one record (ignore the tax office references they are bogus) and your record is worked at whichever office gets the post.