Claim back VAT on your motor fuel

Following a European tax case in 2005, the VAT man has recently changed the law which enables businesses to recover the VAT on fuel used by its employees. The only real change is that businesses now need to keep receipts for the fuel to cover the amount of VAT being claimed.

So remember, when filling up, to ask for a VAT receipt.

If you have not been claiming this VAT back in the past you can still make a claim on your next VAT return for the previous three years of fuel you have used. This can be based either on actual fuel consumption or the VATman approved fuel rates.