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Company Car Tax - Made to have Company Van for Personal Use
Hi,
My friend works for an employer who had given her use of a company van as she needs it for her daily job transporting and travelling to clients around the country.
Other employees are allowed to store their vans/cars at the head office and pick them up in a morning and drop them off at night, my friend has been told there is not enough room for her to do this as well. So she has been told she must pay company car tax as it is seen as a benefit and she has personal use of the van too. The van has seats in the back so they are saying it can be a useful vehicle for her to personally use.
She does not want to use this car for personal use. It's awkward to drive outside of the requirements of her job, very large so not easily parked when 'popping to the shops' or to visit her family who live on a narrow street, her dogs hate travelling in it compared to the boot of her car they are used to, and her and her husband already have a car each for commuting. She's just not able to make it work as her full time car, she has tried every which way possible.
Additionally it is stickered up to the max with the company logos etc, so it's not even discreet (brilliant for work but not for personal use).
The car tax is extortionate on the van as she's being made to have it for personal use, with no payrise to support this.
My question is - can she refuse to have the van for personal use therfore it will become a business use vehicle only that she would leave at work?
Can they legally make her have this as a company vehicle including personal use, aand can they say no to her leaving this van at work and picking it up and dropping it off each day instead?
She is not ungrateful, she's the most selfless person I know and if she could see a way to make the van work as her main vehicle instead of her current car she would, she's just in need of some legal advice please?
Thank you
My friend works for an employer who had given her use of a company van as she needs it for her daily job transporting and travelling to clients around the country.
Other employees are allowed to store their vans/cars at the head office and pick them up in a morning and drop them off at night, my friend has been told there is not enough room for her to do this as well. So she has been told she must pay company car tax as it is seen as a benefit and she has personal use of the van too. The van has seats in the back so they are saying it can be a useful vehicle for her to personally use.
She does not want to use this car for personal use. It's awkward to drive outside of the requirements of her job, very large so not easily parked when 'popping to the shops' or to visit her family who live on a narrow street, her dogs hate travelling in it compared to the boot of her car they are used to, and her and her husband already have a car each for commuting. She's just not able to make it work as her full time car, she has tried every which way possible.
Additionally it is stickered up to the max with the company logos etc, so it's not even discreet (brilliant for work but not for personal use).
The car tax is extortionate on the van as she's being made to have it for personal use, with no payrise to support this.
My question is - can she refuse to have the van for personal use therfore it will become a business use vehicle only that she would leave at work?
Can they legally make her have this as a company vehicle including personal use, aand can they say no to her leaving this van at work and picking it up and dropping it off each day instead?
She is not ungrateful, she's the most selfless person I know and if she could see a way to make the van work as her main vehicle instead of her current car she would, she's just in need of some legal advice please?
Thank you
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