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Calculate your concessionary bus travel reimbursement

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Applies to England

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Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 20242025 to 20252026

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Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 20232024 to 20242025

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To calculate and claim bus travel reimbursement for the tax year 20242025 to 2025,2026, use the 20242025 to 20252026 toolcalculator with the:

The 2024 to 2025 toolcalculator was updated as part of a review of the EnglishENCTS. NationalThe Concessionary2025 Travelto Scheme2026 (ENCTS).calculator has been updated to reflect inflationary data.

The 20232024 to 20242025 toolcalculator is retained for comparison purposes only. The National Archives has copies of previous concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculators including versions used prior to the 2023 review of ENCTS.

Updates to this page

Published 1 November 2011
Last updated 520 JanuaryNovember 2024 + show all updates
  1. Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2025 to 2026 added.

  2. Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2024 to 2025 added.

  3. Concessionary travel reimbursement calculator 2023 to 2024 updated to correct duplicated inflation data.

  4. Added new reimbursement calculator for 2023-2024

  5. Concessionary travel reimbursement calculator 2022 to 2023 updated with the latest GDP deflator data.

  6. The VLOOKUP formulas in tab ‘RF Workings’, used to calculate the average fare in 2005 to 2006 prices, have been updated to include the latest CPI index year.

  7. CPI/GDP deflator and Microsoft Excel macros updated in the calculator.

  8. Published bus travel reimbursement calculator 2022 to 2023.

  9. Published bus travel reimbursement calculator 2021 to 2022.

  10. Error correction to 2019 to 2020 software: updated for discovered mistakes in the reimbursement factor workings calculations.

  11. Error correction: software updated for discovered mistakes in the average fare workings calculations.

  12. Error correction: software updated for discovered mistakes in the additional costs and marginal capacity cost calculations.

  13. Calculator software updated for claim use between 2019 to 2020.

  14. 2018 to 2019 calculator published.

  15. Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2017 to 2018.

  16. Calculator for 2016 to 2017 published.

  17. The change in fares between 2005 to 2006 and 2010 to 2011 calculated on the basis of the National Bus Fare Index in the calculator has been revised to take account of changes made by the department to the way that the index is calculated in 2011.

  18. 2015 to 2016 calculator added, featuring updates to reflect up-to-date information on consumer price index and gross domestic product deflators.

  19. Reimbursement calculator 2014 to 2015 added.

  20. First published.

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