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Tracker in company car
I currently drive a company vehicle and pay tax on the privilege but work want to put trackers in, these trackers are used for every stop / start and where you have been. Can they force these to be put in?
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I think you have three options
* grin and bear it
* ask the company to give you the means to disable the tracker outside of working hours
* tell the company that you no longer want to use the vehicle for private use and require them to provide a 'base' where you can leave the vehicle outside working hours.
In this case you would then have no tax charge for private use (but note that the taxman includes commuting as 'private' so you would need to demonstrate that you were not using the vehicle for that purpose) - simply leaving the car at your home and not using it for private mileage is hard to prove and probably won't satisfy the taxman.
I think you have three options
* grin and bear it
* ask the company to give you the means to disable the tracker outside of working hours
* tell the company that you no longer want to use the vehicle for private use and require them to provide a 'base' where you can leave the vehicle outside working hours.
In this case you would then have no tax charge for private use (but note that the taxman includes commuting as 'private' so you would need to demonstrate that you were not using the vehicle for that purpose) - simply leaving the car at your home and not using it for private mileage is hard to prove and probably won't satisfy the taxman.
My employers ditched all company cars in 2004. We now get £300 per month car allowance and a fuel card and just log personal mileage for b-i-k taxation. They hope the £300 per month allowance (which is taxable) will persuade us to buy nice cars that convey a good image to customers, rather than using the allowance to buy cocaine and wobble round in a 1988 Carina.