Mat leave / company car

Clarieloo

Flyboy152 wrote: »

But if you are not earning over eight thousand five hundred pounds (inclusive of benefits) you won't pay any tax on it.

Thanks I didn't know that. I really need to understand how I'm going to be affected by tax etc in the next few months.

summer1982

Mice_Elf wrote: »

How long has it been since you handed it back?

I handed it back in November.

I wish I had looked into it more

Do you think it is cheeky to ask for it back?

Flyboy152

summer1982 wrote: »

It was a completley irrational penny pinching desicion on my part and I am really angry at myself for not thinking it through :mad:

We don't have a lot of money and I had to save really hard for my maternity leave, but while I am on it I want to enjoy it. At the moment I feel trapped in my house as I can't get anywhere. Of course I could get buses but the only place I want to go is my mum and dads (my dad has MS and cant leave the house, he would love to see his granddaughter more), but it would cost more in buses than it would to buy a cheap little run around for a few months (they live in a different town and I have done the maths).

My question was just do my company have to give me the car back if I ask for it seeing as the contract I am employed on, regardless of the fact I am currently on mat leave, has the benefit of a company car.

Did you think that it would cost you money, if you retained the car?

summer1982

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Did you think that it would cost you money, if you retained the car?

I just thought I would get taxed more, turns out I wouldn't have. Trying to do the right thing backfires on you sometimes

ginvzt

If you gave back the benefit that came with your contract, I don't think you can ask for it back whilst on maternity leave. But then - I have never been in that situation.

How does it work with childcare vouchers - if you cancelled them before going on maternity leave, can you ask for them back whilst on maternity leave? I think it would be seen the same way.

Mice_Elf

Well, the only thing you can do is ask. But be prepared for them to say no, especially as you've managed without for 3 months. However, you are entitled to the same benefits whilst on Mat Leave as if you were working normally, so you may well get a Yes.

Is the company a large one & are their company cars "pool" cars? I know that for us, every company car was considered any employees that had the relevant grade. Therefore, if someone needed to go somewhere & their car was our of action, or too small (we engineers had large cars for carrying spares to different sites, as opposed to the Sales team, who had smaller booted cars.), we had to let them use our car.

Now if someone else in your company has started with the relevant grade for a company car, they may have given them yours.

Can but ask.

madjay

Did you give up the car or swap it for a car allowance...there is a difference

MX5huggy

Firstly just ask, if you don't ask you won't know.

I am going to make some presumptions now. Can't you take husband to work then have the car all day and then pick him up?

summer1982

madjay wrote: »

Did you give up the car or swap it for a car allowance...there is a difference

I gave up the car and they new it was to save money, they didn't offer a car allowance

summer1982

MX5huggy wrote: »

Firstly just ask, if you don't ask you won't know.

I am going to make some presumptions now. Can't you take husband to work then have the car all day and then pick him up?

I have asked now, waiting on a reply.

My hubby drives a works van and works in London/Cambridge, we live in Oxford