Odoproof Guides: Tesla Mileage, BIK & VAT in Ireland
Plain-English guides for Irish Tesla drivers and businesses on keeping a Revenue-ready mileage logbook. Understand how proven business kilometres cut your company-car BIK, support VAT recovery and stand up to a Revenue audit.
How to Cut Your Tesla Company-Car BIK With a Mileage Logbook in Ireland
In Ireland the Benefit-in-Kind (BIK) on a company car is set by your annual business kilometres and the car's CO2 category. A 0g/km Tesla sits in Category A1 for 2026, where the BIK percentage falls from 15% of Original Market Value (OMV) at 0–26,000 business km down to 6% above 48,000 business km. To claim the lower bands you must prove those kilometres with a contemporaneous logbook — otherwise Revenue lets your employer assume 8,000 km are private.
→VAT Recovery on a Tesla and on EV Charging in Ireland
A VAT-registered Irish business can reclaim up to 20% of the VAT on a qualifying passenger motor vehicle, such as a Tesla, if it is used at least 60% for business, tested over a two-year period. VAT on the electricity used to charge the car for business is also recoverable, apportioned by the business proportion of your mileage. In both cases the business/private mileage split is the evidence Revenue relies on, so a contemporaneous logbook is what makes the recovery stand up.
→Self-Employed in a Tesla: Apportioning Motor Expenses in Ireland
If you are self-employed in Ireland and use your Tesla for both business and private journeys, only the business proportion of your motor expenses and capital allowances is deductible; the private element must be added back on your Form 11. That proportion is driven by your business-versus-private mileage, so a contemporaneous logbook — date, from/to, distance in kilometres and purpose — is the record that supports your deduction and must be kept for six years.
→Be first to keep your Tesla kilometres audit-proof.
Based on Revenue guidance on private use of employer-provided vehicles, motor expense deductions and VAT on qualifying passenger vehicles. Informational only — not tax advice.
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