Author:
ROBIN ROBERTS
A reported clampdown by HMRC on business mileage – which is targeting small businesses – may be a little less onerous thanks to a new Audi app.
The free-to-download Audi app is about to make business travel a little less taxing by tracking journeys via GPS and precisely calculating the business expense they generate.
It’s exactly the sort of thing the taxman will love to prove you have covered the business mileage you say.
The Audi business mileage app is available from iTunes.
The Audi Mileage Tracker app enables business users and company car drivers to enter the amount normally claimed per mile, and to apply this to a particular journey, which is logged in real time using GPS mapping.
At the end of the journey the exact amount owed as a business expense is recorded, and can be transferred to a spreadsheet showing all the applicable trips taken over a given period. This can then be emailed to a home or business computer for expense claims for business mileage.
Drivers can programme the app with journeys they take regularly and recall them from the journey log, or use the start/stop function each time they leave the office.
The app can even point them in the direction of their nearest Audi Centre if they need expert assistance. As the exact route taken is tracked, regardless of diversions due to roadworks or congestion, the calculation provided is always absolutely accurate.
And leave you and your small business able to meet any HMRC business mileage investigation with a knowing smile that you have the pence per mile issue wrapped up.
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