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Advisory fuel rates from 1 September 2024

The HMRC advisory fuel rate (AFR) table as it applied from 1 September 2024 to 30 November 2024, when the 1 December 2024 rates replaced them.

This is the earliest quarter in the THRIVE archive, so there is no earlier table here to compare it with.

Petrol · pence per mile
1400cc or less13p
1401cc to 2000cc15p
over 2000cc24p
LPG · pence per mile
1400cc or less11p
1401cc to 2000cc13p
over 2000cc21p
Diesel · pence per mile
1600cc or less12p
1601cc to 2000cc14p
over 2000cc18p
Electric (advisory electricity rate) · pence per mile
all7p

How the advisory fuel rates are used

Employers can use these rates to reimburse employees for business miles driven in a company car, or to work out what an employee should repay for fuel used on private journeys, without either payment being treated as a taxable benefit. If an employer pays more per mile than the advisory rate, it has to show that the higher rate reflects the car's real fuel cost. The rates are pence per mile for fuel alone, set by engine size (or charging location for electric cars), and HMRC updates them each quarter, from 1 March, June, September and December.

They do not apply to an employee's own car: business journeys in a private car are covered by the approved mileage allowance payments, which include wear and tear as well as fuel.

The main rates across every quarter on file

Pence per mile, from the start of each quarter
Quarter fromPetrol 1,401-2,000ccDiesel 1,601-2,000ccElectric, home*Electric, public
1 September 202617p16p7p15p
1 June 202617p17p7p15p
1 March 202614p13p7p15p
1 December 202514p13p7p14p
1 September 202514p13p8p14p
1 June 202514p13p7p–
1 March 202515p13p7p–
1 December 202414p13p7p–
1 September 2024 (this page)15p14p7p–

* Before 1 September 2025, the single advisory electricity rate for all electric cars.

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Source: HMRC advisory fuel rates, OGL v3.0. Reuse terms.

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