VAT receipts with mileage claims

Do you have to provide VAT receipts with your mileage claims? We need to provide a VAT receipt with our claims, so the LA (I assume) can claim the VAT back. - well cant think of any other reason. We have been warned if we do not provide receipts, we will not get our mileage paid! is this the same in all areas? sounds strange to me

Older (as in longer serving)  members of our team insist that they have to give receipts but we have recently had confirmation that we do not have to provide VAT receipts with our claims.  I have been with a LA team for 2 years; have never attached a receipt and have never had a problem.

the only problem I do have is finding enough time to fill the claim form in at the end of the month, mind you,  the ongoing limitations with Carefirst 6 and the amount of time it crashes would be a good time to do so...

We were told that VAT receipts were a requirement from HMRC, in order to comply with EU regulations. Does anyone know if that is true? Or is it just an excuse for more red tape?

 

We have to attach VAT receipts for fuel otherwise we don't get paid our milage. It wasn't always like this but has been for some time now.

Yes, we do. Apparently HMRC can in theory check the books so it covers the council.

In my LA all our milage claims are submitted electronically. We have to tick a box to say if we have a VAT reciept but not submit it, and there is no question of them not paying of we do not tick the box.

I assume that in theory someone could come and ask to see our reciepts but I think that is highly unlikely.