The 3km tax rule

[Cod]

..has anyone got any experience with this rule that says if you must walk more than 3km on your entire journey to work WHEN USING PUBLIC TRANSPORT then it's possible to claim km's on car usage..

..I'm pretty much bang on 3km but is it up for me to prove it or up to the tax office to disclaim it? Eniro (Journey.fi website) says my journey involves 2.4km of walking, but that figure is wildly optimistic (e.g. Masala train station is very very long, so you can add 200m instantly to the Eniro map figure to get to the actual embarkation point) . If anyone has claimed on this point it would be great to hear how Vero wanted the evidence.

taa in advance

[zam]

If there's a bus that would cover even a part of the journey without having to wait at least - was it - two hours on a return journey you can stop calculating and speculating...

[Cod]

.bbbut, incredulously there isn't, it's a 2.1km walk to the train station and a 2.8km walk to the bus station.

Basically I need to figure out if between the train station, the bus station and the final 150m walk to work I can pull in an extra 900m, then I'm in then I'm within the 3km rule - which explains why the blokes up the road from home tend to drive Shiny Global Warmers

[jamie_designer]

My girlfriends dad just lost a battle with the tax authorities over this very rule. His place of work is 40km away from his house in Rauma to the bus station it is 5km then from the bus station to his work its a 4.5km walk down the E8 highway with no bike road in sight, so his only option is to walk on the side of this very busy highway. He put a pretty good case together for why he should get this tax discount and was rejected because he owns a portion of the company. They reasoned that because he is a "owner" he has flexible working hours and levyed quite a heavy fine against him + interest for the time he used in appealing their decision.

Tax office also had an article in Lansi-Suomi last week about the principles of this 3km rule. Its too much for me to handle when the tax office starts talking about principles.