May 28, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
If your logic is simply that EVs are best, then it follows that the bigger the EV the bestest it must be right? Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the 1000bhp Hummer EV; proudly described on the GMC website as “zero emissions”. In the UK there are just under 32...
May 14, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
There are now 31.7m cars registered in the UK, and they average 8.6 years old (up from 8.3 in 2019). The average diesel is now 8 years old (up from 7.3 in 2019) with petrol at 9.3 (9.1 in 2019). These statistics for UK car registrations to December 2020 were released...
May 4, 2021 | Company Cars, PHEV
I hate those stories you get from time to time in the Tabloids, predicting excessive heat or snow or rain for the UK at some point in the near future. Hate them! They are rarely right as it’s almost impossible to predict weather in the near future, and really it’s...
May 3, 2021 | Company Cars, P11D, PHEV
HMRC aren’t always great at moving with the times. The main company car section of the Income and Corporations Taxes Act 1988 (s198) referred to the expense of “keeping and maintaining a horse to enable him to perform those duties”. That’s 1988. So perhaps we...
Apr 15, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, P11D, PHEV, Private Fuel
David Chandler and Harvey Perkins very much enjoyed taking part in the AFP webinar this morning about Tax and the Company Car. We talked at length about the tax system and why its too complicated, the new super deduction (the only tax relief that wears its pants on...
Apr 14, 2021 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
The graph above shows where in the world new EVs and PHEVs have been registered over the last ten years. If we accept that overall global supply is limited, it’s interesting to see where the cars are going. Through to the end of 2019, more than half of the cars built...
