Night out money/expenses

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£20 (£10 less than I was on 10yrs ago with a better firm :unamused: ) all parking paid for, but a moan if over £15 :unamused:.
If they discover that a meal voucher is included the tight arsed ■■■■■■■■ take it off :smiling_imp:
I NEVER park in lay bys as I refuse to on principle, but the firm turns a blind eye to those that do (until one of them come a cropper as it is technically against their rules)

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£23.93 (!!) plus parking paid, or use SNAP account

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25 a night out and parking at either council depots or services (reimbursed) can park in a layby if we want to as it’s unlikely the TGBs will have a load of planings away. However why would you want to

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I pay myself the maximum allowable under HMRC’s current rules, £26.18. Also £2 a day meal allowance.

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£23.70 n/o plus all parking paid or park outside one of our branches

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£20 in UK & £30 outside UK, all parking paid.

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£25 per night parking paid if not close to a depot and a meal voucher of a fiver if your working 12 hours or more.

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£25 night out
£25 per week meal allowance
They will pay for parking if loaded but quite often we park at delivery or collection address most do have showers all have toilet facilities

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we get paid £25 a night but you have to self cater.
we have to park up a hunt kennel we collect from as when we stay in truckstops ect we get moaned at about the smell ( we carry animal by products )

cheers

JP

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I think it’s about £19 we get but all our parking money is refunded so would always pay to park thus getting a free meal.

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£50 + meal allowance taking it to around £62summat (meal allowance is on a 12 hour basis = 3 meals)
Pay our own parking,
I have only done 1 N/O this year and am quite happy to keep it that way.

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£22 + £ 9 night meal £6 day meal all parking paid sometimes twice in a day. And that is how it should be.

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Harry look at the 10hr working time part goes up to £10 per day

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Can someone enlighten me on SNAP? I did a quick google but no joy.

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Montmerency:
Can someone enlighten me on SNAP? I did a quick google but no joy.

Here you go .

snapaccount.co.uk/home.asp

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alix776:
Harry look at the 10hr working time part goes up to £10 per day

Yea, I’ve heard that but I’ve never been able to find a reference to it on the HMRC website.

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fingermissing:

Montmerency:
Can someone enlighten me on SNAP? I did a quick google but no joy.

Here you go .

snapaccount.co.uk/home.asp

Thanks for that :slight_smile:

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Drivers can contact Snap to advise them of any new parking sites they find.
Some are transport firms and some you need to book in ahead to reserve a space.
It saves the driver carrying cash to pay for parking.
If you find a parking area please let them know.

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Harry Monk:

alix776:
Harry look at the 10hr working time part goes up to £10 per day

Yea, I’ve heard that but I’ve never been able to find a reference to it on the HMRC website.

The way I see it, is that is you can only claim the £10 if on the day in question you work hours which are NOT part of your regular working day:
eg if you normally do an eleven hour shift and start at 6am every day you can NOT claim the £10 unless on the day in question you start at a different time eg 4am (the meal allowance is due to the inconvenience of starting/finishing your shift at an irregular time).
Also, I don’t think you can claim it on a day which includes a night out (night out money is there to cover the meal allowance) ?
The only clear thing I can find on HMRC website is the £2.00 daily allowance (more if you have a receipt).

If anybody can put me right on these allowances I’d be grateful as what written above is my interpretation of what I can find online ?
Thanks.