Mileage rates by country (2026)
What each country pays, tax-free, for using your own car for work.
There is no common European scale here: every country writes its own and revises it on its own date. They are not even the same kind of object — Spain and Germany publish one number, the United Kingdom two split at a mileage threshold, Ireland twelve across distance bands and engine sizes, and France fifteen formulas across tax-horsepower classes. The figure below is what a typical car earns on its first kilometres, so the countries can sit on one line; the scale itself is on each country's page.
| Country | First kilometres | Shape of the scale |
|---|---|---|
| France | €0.636 / km | 5 rows × 3 columns |
| Germany | €0.38 / km | one rate |
| Austria | €0.50 / km | 4 rows × 1 columns |
| Spain | €0.26 / km | one rate |
| United Kingdom | 55p / mi | 3 rows × 2 columns |
| Ireland | €0.418 / km | 4 rows × 3 columns |
Why only six countries
Because these six are the ones whose scale could be read in a first-party source — a ministry, a tax authority, a statute. Belgium runs two concurrent official rates published in a circular; Italy's scale is the ACI tables, set per vehicle model rather than per country; Luxembourg and Mexico legislate no general scale at all. Putting a payroll blog's figure next to a ministry's would make the whole table worth less, so those countries are absent until their number can be read at the source.