Readers’ forum: Tax-free travel and subsistence for director

My clients are a utility maintenance company and its two directors. The company’s offices are in Kent but the directors are working on a project in Wales and so far this has lasted for more than 24 months. They took on a new employee to help with this work and he lives near the company’s main office as do the directors. Each week the directors and the employee travel by van to Wales and return to Kent on Friday evening. While in Wales during the week they live in a caravan. What if anything can the company pay them as a tax-free subsistence and/or travel allowance.

My clients have met some other workers who travel to Wales each week to work on a similar project – they also stay in a caravan – and they are being paid £300 a week tax-free for travel expenses....