O/T Its surprising how people vote

[red flagged]

I have scrolled back & this is what you said [I had read & understood it before]

"So I told them I wasn't prepared to use my own car and they allowed me to choose from the very limited company car list (at my grade of course, you can't just have what you want). Trouble is I pay so much now in company car tax, you pay on the list price of the vehicle for the duration so as the vehicle gets older you still pay the taxable amount based on it's current( new) list price."


But you still chose the company car option, why?
presumably you knew the rules before choosing & you must be on 40% tax I assume

I chose the company car option Exile for many reasons which I've tried to explain.
Just imagine for a minute that you were in a job where you were expected to use your family car for work.
You have to carry work equipment and documentation ( which you then have to unload to fit the family in) this equipment is usually dirty so the inside of the car starts to suffer ( remember this is your own car), you have to pay more insurance on your own car because you're using it for business purposes, it's usually filthy because of the job you do.
The real killer for me was the servicing frequency increased, as did the cost of replacing worn tyres, as did the depreciation in value - a car with 100k on the clock is going to be worth far less when you come to part ex it than a car with 36k on the clock.

So I chose the company car option.

SB thinks that it's a free car which it's not, I could buy a car on finance for the monthly tax I pay on my company car, I choose not to because of the above.

My company car that I swan around in as one of these 'high flyers' splashing the poor serfs of Barnsley as I float off to my p1ss easy 9-5 job where there's no pressure, deadlines or targets is in fact a heavily taxed tool of the trade and not the freebie those who don't have one think it is. Unfortunately as with most things there are folk who have already made their minds up irrespective of what the reality is, and then there's the rest of us.

[EastStandRed]

Some jobs require a company car otherwise you’d be spending out of your own pocket to do your job . Simple innit

[red flagged]

Feck all to do with us redflagged , nhs on it's @ss , foodbanks , housing crisis and yet .........


https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...d-saudi-arabia

I know Animal, a couple of years ago I proposed that the UKIP stance at the time on foreign aid was the way we should go. I was ridiculed by many, dismissed as spouting populist policies, but even worse called a racist by some on here.
I stopped posting soon after.

We're targeted to spend 70 pence in every £100 of foreign aid,it's more than we spend on policing in England and Wales, it's a tenth of the NHS budget, it's a disgrace.We box well above our weight compared to the rest of europe and countries like America and Australia.

We should be looking after our own before throwing billions at the likes of pakistan,syria and afganistan.
Queue the ridicule and racism taunts from the happy clappers.

[red flagged]

Some jobs require a company car otherwise you’d be spending out of your own pocket to do your job . Simple innit

Thank you.

[EastStandRed]

I know Animal, a couple of years ago I proposed that the UKIP stance at the time on foreign aid was the way we should go. I was ridiculed by many, dismissed as spouting populist policies, but even worse called a racist by some on here.
I stopped posting soon after.

We're targeted to spend 70 pence in every £100 of foreign aid,it's more than we spend on policing in England and Wales, it's a tenth of the NHS budget, it's a disgrace.We box well above our weight compared to the rest of europe and countries like America and Australia.

We should be looking after our own before throwing billions at the likes of pakistan,syria and afganistan.
Queue the ridicule and racism taunts from the happy clappers.

Agree totally

[animallittle3]

I know Animal, a couple of years ago I proposed that the UKIP stance at the time on foreign aid was the way we should go. I was ridiculed by many, dismissed as spouting populist policies, but even worse called a racist by some on here.
I stopped posting soon after.

We're targeted to spend 70 pence in every £100 of foreign aid,it's more than we spend on policing in England and Wales, it's a tenth of the NHS budget, it's a disgrace.We box well above our weight compared to the rest of europe and countries like America and Australia.

We should be looking after our own before throwing billions at the likes of pakistan,syria and afganistan.
Queue the ridicule and racism taunts from the happy clappers.

It's simply a vanity project , attempting to portray to the rest of the world that the Saudi's are generous and compassionate people so that we can carry on selling them arms which will enable them to kill people and improve our bank balance .

[Exiletyke]

I chose the company car option Exile for many reasons which I've tried to explain.
Just imagine for a minute that you were in a job where you were expected to use your family car for work.
You have to carry work equipment and documentation ( which you then have to unload to fit the family in) this equipment is usually dirty so the inside of the car starts to suffer ( remember this is your own car), you have to pay more insurance on your own car because you're using it for business purposes, it's usually filthy because of the job you do.
The real killer for me was the servicing frequency increased, as did the cost of replacing worn tyres, as did the depreciation in value - a car with 100k on the clock is going to be worth far less when you come to part ex it than a car with 36k on the clock.

So I chose the company car option.

SB thinks that it's a free car which it's not, I could buy a car on finance for the monthly tax I pay on my company car, I choose not to because of the above.

My company car that I swan around in as one of these 'high flyers' splashing the poor serfs of Barnsley as I float off to my p1ss easy 9-5 job where there's no pressure, deadlines or targets is in fact a heavily taxed tool of the trade and not the freebie those who don't have one think it is. Unfortunately as with most things there are folk who have already made their minds up irrespective of what the reality is, and then there's the rest of us.

Do you not use the company car for family purposes
or do you have a second car?

[red flagged]

Do you not use the company car for family purposes
or do you have a second car?

my wife has a car. she's disabled, we use her car most of the time as it's easier for her to get in and out of.

[SBRed48]

Yes I could hand it back, but how pray tell do I get to Tadcaster on Monday

Like a lot of others do, in their own car or public transport.

With this company car being such a burden the best answer seems to be to drive your own car to and from work and use a designated works vehicle for work purposes. I sure your sensitive clients that must be driven around in luxury would understand that you need your tools of the trade in the boot.

[Exiletyke]

Like a lot of others do, in their own car or public transport.

With this company car being such a burden the best answer seems to be to drive your own car to and from work and use a designated works vehicle for work purposes. I sure your sensitive clients that must be driven around in luxury would understand that you need your tools of the trade in the boot.

From what he is saying SB his family car is a Motability vehicle