Work out your maximum tax-free mileage claim in seconds, using the official civil service rates.
Calculate the maximum tax-free mileage reimbursement for business journeys in your own car, using the official civil service motoring rates published by Revenue (in force since 1 September 2022 and unchanged as of June 2026). Enter your total business kilometres for the calendar year; the calculator applies the cumulative distance bands automatically.
The rates are cumulative across the calendar year, not flat. Your first 1,500 business kilometres are paid at the Band 1 rate, the next 4,000 km at the much higher Band 2 rate, kilometres from 5,501 to 25,000 at Band 3, and anything above at Band 4. The counter resets every 1 January. Fully electric vehicles use the 1201cc-1500cc column; hybrids use their actual engine size.
| Distance band | Up to 1200cc | 1201-1500cc / EV | 1501cc+ |
| Band 1: up to 1,500 km | 41.80c | 43.40c | 51.82c |
| Band 2: 1,501 – 5,500 km | 72.64c | 79.18c | 90.63c |
| Band 3: 5,501 – 25,000 km | 31.78c | 31.79c | 39.22c |
| Band 4: 25,001 km + | 20.56c | 23.85c | 25.87c |
These are the maximum amounts an employer, including your own limited company, can reimburse tax-free for business journeys in the employee’s private car. Anything above the civil service rate is taxable as pay. Journeys between home and your normal place of work do not qualify. Keep a log of each journey: date, purpose, start and end points, kilometres. Subsistence allowances are separate: the domestic overnight rate is EUR 205.53 and the 10-hour day rate is EUR 46.17 (from 29 January 2025).
Full background and the subsistence tables are in our guide to the civil service mileage and subsistence rates. If you run your own company, mileage is only one part of extracting value: see how to pay yourself as a director, or talk to us about payroll for your Irish Ltd.
Source: Revenue, civil service rates (checked 10 June 2026). This calculator is a guide, not tax advice.
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