Tesla mileage & tax guides for UK drivers
Plain-English guides to keeping HMRC-ready mileage records in your Tesla — from company-car benefit-in-kind and the Advisory Electricity Rate to VAT on charging and self-employed claims. Accurate for the 2026/27 tax year.
How to keep an HMRC mileage log for a Tesla company car
To keep an HMRC-ready mileage log for a Tesla company car, record every business journey contemporaneously with its date, start and end postcodes, purpose and distance, and log home-to-workplace commuting as private. You need this log to reimburse business charging at HMRC's Advisory Electricity Rate and to support VAT recovery on public charging — not to reduce your benefit-in-kind, which is fixed at 4% of list price for 2026/27 regardless of mileage.
→Can I reclaim VAT on charging my electric company car?
A VAT-registered business can generally reclaim input VAT on public charging of a company electric car used for business, but not on home charging by an employee, which HMRC treats as a supply to the employee rather than the business. The recoverable VAT is one-sixth of the charging cost, and you need a business-mileage log plus charging records to substantiate the business proportion.
→How self-employed Tesla drivers claim mileage on an electric car
Self-employed Tesla drivers can claim vehicle costs one of two ways: HMRC's simplified flat-rate mileage of 55p per business mile for the first 10,000 miles and 25p thereafter (2026/27), or the actual running costs apportioned by business-use percentage. Both methods require a contemporaneous mileage log distinguishing business from private journeys, and once you use simplified mileage for a vehicle you must keep using it for that vehicle.
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