Tax return for Uber and delivery drivers in London
Platform work is self-employment, and nobody withholds the tax for you. We handle the registration, the expenses and the return.
What you get
If you drive for Uber or Bolt, or deliver for Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats or Amazon Flex, HMRC treats you as self-employed. The platform pays you gross, takes no tax and no National Insurance, and sends you a statement rather than a payslip. The responsibility for registering, keeping records and filing a Self Assessment return is yours, and we take that off you.
The work is mostly in the expenses. Fuel or mileage, insurance, vehicle rental or finance, licensing and the private hire licence, congestion and ULEZ charges, phone, cleaning, commission and platform fees — claimed correctly, these change the bill substantially. Claimed carelessly, they are what turns a routine return into an enquiry, which is why we ask about your mileage records before we ask about anything else.
What is included
Handled for you, including the 5 October deadline in the year you start driving.
Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Just Eat report differently; gross fares, commission and fees are separated correctly.
We work out which basis leaves you better off, and apply it consistently rather than switching year to year.
Rental, finance, insurance, repairs, licensing and the charges London adds on top.
Prepared, reviewed and submitted, with the tax and the payment dates explained before you owe anything.
If a question comes back, it comes to us.
Who it is for
Private hire drivers and couriers working through any of the platforms in London, whether it is your only income or the second job on top of employment. It suits drivers in their first year who have never filed anything, and drivers who have been filing their own returns and suspect they are claiming either too little or the wrong things.
If you rent your vehicle through the platform, drive for more than one app, or had employment income earlier in the same tax year, say so at the start — each of those changes the return, and all three together are more common than you would think.
How it works
Download your annual summaries from each app you drive for and send them over with your mileage and your vehicle costs. If you have not kept mileage records, tell us honestly — there are defensible ways to reconstruct a year, and inventing a number is not one of them.
We prepare the return, show you what is claimed and what the tax comes to, and file it once you are happy. You also get told what to put aside before the next payment date, which for a first-year driver is the part nobody warns them about.
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What it costs
A driver return is a standard Self Assessment and carries the fixed fee for one, agreed in writing before we start. If you drove for several platforms, or had employment income in the same year as well, we say so up front rather than discovering it halfway and sending a larger invoice.
Questions drivers ask
Uber says I am self-employed. Do I really have to file?
Yes, if your self-employed income is above the £1,000 trading allowance. The platform reports what it paid you and does not withhold anything, so the return is the only place your tax is calculated.
When do I have to register?
By 5 October following the end of the tax year in which you started. If that date has gone, register now — the sooner it happens, the smaller the consequence, and it is a smaller consequence than most people expect.
Can I claim mileage and fuel?
One or the other, not both. Either the simplified mileage rate or the actual running costs of the vehicle. Which is better depends on your mileage and your vehicle, and we work it out from your real figures rather than assuming.
What about ULEZ, congestion charge and the private hire licence?
Those are business costs when they are incurred for work and they are claimable. What is not claimable is the drive from home to wherever you choose to start, which is where a lot of self-filed returns go wrong.
I drive part time and have a job as well. Does that change things?
It changes the arithmetic, not the obligation. Your employment is taxed through PAYE and your driving is added on top, which usually means tax at your marginal rate plus Class 4 National Insurance. We put both on one return so nothing is taxed twice or missed.
Get your driving year sorted
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