Claiming mobility allowance against tax

karanight

Liquorice Twirls
I tried to post the link but I was refused permission to post it, but if you go to motabilitycarscheme dot co dot uk/main.cfm?Type=CCHC (replace dot with .)
click the top right box "For Car Questions...Ask Mo"
and ask the question Can someone else use the vehicle


calleyw Very interesting comment and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they give different advice. I will write to them and as I said before on this forum I'll post the results


pstuart If the police can prosecute for several offences including what we're talking about, its about time the government got their house in order, but then hell freezing over might come sooner

Thanks for all the comments

calleyw

pstuart wrote: »

If you were the only one to ever come to court for a single offence like this you would quote Motabilities comments then go and celebrate your win over the silly !!!!!!s who prosecuted it.

As I said I would never be in court in the first place. As I personally place more store in what the DVLA say rather than a charity.

But I would love for a case to go to court and be high profile in the media, And see who wins as I think that would put an end to threads like this on forums.

Oh and by the way my husband is entitled to mobility car so I could be swanning around in one if I wanted to. But for us the maths don't add up. So before any suggests I am jealous :rotfl:

As I said it is up to each person to decide for themselves.

Yours

Calley

BLT_2

karanight wrote: »

I have news for you BTL. The general consensus of opinion is flawed and wrong. Just because the general consensus of opinion is that I'm breaking laws etc doesn't mean the general consensus of opinion is correct, it isn't

Dear me, you seem to have a lot of time on your hand. However this is now getting boring, you have clearly made your mind up so why on earth you bother coming on this board if all you want to do is get agreement to your tax dodging schemes I have no idea.

Carry on, but please don't come back here complaining that the police have nabbed you for illegally using a free mobility car with a free tax disk

ShockingPink

Just remembered. There was a TV documentary a couple of years ago about spouses of Motability customers using the cars fraudulently (as taxis). Presumably there was some sort of identifiable benefit to the claimant, but their other halves still got done!

For goodness sake - buy the car legitimately, pay the tax and clIm the lot as a business expense. Your OH will still receive her DLA, which she can spend as she wishes.

karanight

BLT wrote: »

you have clearly made your mind up so why on earth you bother coming on this board if all you want to do is get agreement to your tax dodging schemes I have no idea.

It's NOT tax dodging I'm into, It's LIGIT TAX AVOIDANCE I suppose theres plenty of idiots willing to pay tax thats unnecessary, I'm not one of them

BLT wrote: »

please don't come back here complaining that the police have nabbed you for illegally using a free mobility car with a free tax disk

I only ever complain cos morons fill the space reserved for folk with brains.

Have a nice life

karanight

BLT wrote: »

you have clearly made your mind up so why on earth you bother coming on this board if all you want to do is get agreement to your tax dodging schemes I have no idea.

It's NOT tax dodging I'm into, It's LIGIT TAX AVOIDANCE I suppose theres plenty of idiots willing to pay tax thats unnecessary, I'm not one of them

BLT wrote: »

please don't come back here complaining that the police have nabbed you for illegally using a free mobility car with a free tax disk

I never ever complain

Brassedoff

The rules are clear, you are not taxed, ergo, not insured. Btw, motoring offense fines are not tax deductible.

If you used your hypothesis, anyone could use a motabilty vehicle or tax exempt one for any purpose arguing that it had a benefit on the recipient in the end. As the direct.gov website says, you are not covered.

I find it a trifle amusing that someone would want to try and go for such a small amount of benefit through tax mitigation, then argue or claim they have no accountant. Any decent one would normally more than cover their fee's with the allowances they would make you aware of to negate the cost of engaging them. What are you discussing? £32?

Old saying, dont feed the trolls

pstuart

Brassedoff wrote: »

The rules are clear, you are not taxed, ergo, not insured. Btw, motoring offense fines are not tax deductible.

If you used your hypothesis, anyone could use a motabilty vehicle or tax exempt one for any purpose arguing that it had a benefit on the recipient in the end. As the direct.gov website says, you are not covered.

I find it a trifle amusing that someone would want to try and go for such a small amount of benefit through tax mitigation, then argue or claim they have no accountant. Any decent one would normally more than cover their fee's with the allowances they would make you aware of to negate the cost of engaging them. What are you discussing? £32?

Old saying, dont feed the trolls

An untaxed car does not negate your insurance and the general hypothesis is a Daily Mail one.

We are talking about 'abuse' of the system like its some form of low level anarchy, its the Road Fund License - which starts at £00 up to not a lot, for goodness sake, the Police have more common sense to prosecute someone who is on the RSA insurance and maybe just going to the shops without the leasor.

Different tribes are competing here again and as you comment 'feeding the trolls'.

sheeps68

I await with interest on what DVLA say as it seem motability often give poor advice regarding use of car and who benefits etc. As such I do worry that a lot of people are not knowingly doing wrong. I even worry that I have my tax exempt disc and I am sole driver 99% of the time but what happens if for example a friend has to drive the car home for me if I'm kept in hospital after an out-patient appt. Cant leave it at hospital and so it has to go home. Its certainly for my benefit to get car home as it prevents huge fines and car being towed in London.

karanight

sheeps68
I sent the DVLA an email and they responded with a return email telling me I can phone to ask or send a letter. I decide to send a letter because I'd have no proof of what was said in a phone call. It's a bit pathetic that I can't send an email to the department that can answer the question via email
I guess it'll be at least a week before I get any response from them.

The only way to get proper answers is to go to the source and not some of the folk on here who seem to take everything lying down.
I do wonder why this hasn't been taken up by large numbers on here as it's a group of folk with a vested interest.
If I get an answer that is stupid i.e. as their web site say's I'll take it further. Someone on this forum said I must have too much time on my hands, but, I rarely watch TV so I do have time to fight causes I think need fighting.
I hope I can give you good news soon but don't hold your breath, I think it'll take more that one letter from one individual.