disabled car tax

moon_pig

This is quite intersting to all those that use the disability car for going to and from work
The Direct.gov.uk website says "To claim exemption from vehicle tax, the vehicle must be registered in your name or registered in the name of someone you nominate to drive for you (a nominee).
The vehicle must only be used for your purposes, for example shopping or getting prescriptions.
If it is being used by the nominee or someone else for their own personal needs, then the exemption will be lost and the normal rate of vehicle tax must be paid."

colin13

been discused on here a thousand times,if you want a response put on about use of moblilty cars,,thats a good 1 for response,:(

moon_pig

bigbulldog wrote: »

Someone feeling bitter.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why would you suggest someones feeling bitter?, its only something i read and thought i would like to share with the forum, its something i read into and presumed that maybe that you wasnt aware of partners using the mobility car to commute to and from work:eek:

pstuart

moon_pig wrote: »

why would you suggest someones feeling bitter?, its only something i read and thought i would like to share with the forum, its something i read into and presumed that maybe that you wasnt aware of partners using the mobility car to commute to and from work:eek:

AGAIN please read previous historical posts on this.

Partner CAN use the vehicle for work because the benefits from the work also benefits the other partner.

sunnyone

pstuart wrote: »

AGAIN please read previous historical posts on this.

Partner CAN use the vehicle for work because the benefits from the work also benefits the other partner.

Oh no they cant, ask the DVLA, it has nothing at all to do with motability but everything to do with the disabled tax disc.

pstuart

sunnyone wrote: »

Oh no they cant, ask the DVLA, it has nothing at all to do with motability but everything to do with the disabled tax disc.

Oh yes they can!!!!!!!!!

sunnyone

pstuart wrote: »

Oh yes they can!!!!!!!!!

Where is the quote direct from the DVLA to back up your statement?

Oh yes there isnt one because you're wrong.

olly184

My son is now on his third Motability car. When he obtained the first one we explained that my wife used it to get to work whilst my son was at school all day and actually paid the car tax on the vehicle for the whole of the three years. When he obtained the second motability vehicle and we tried to do the same again we were told that we didnt need to do and shouldn't have done it for the first one. So it appears that in the past even Motability seemed to have staff who were giving different answers. Maybe the rules are interpreted in different ways for someone with a Motability car as opposed to someone obtaining a disabled class excise licence on a non motability car. Either way one answer if people are worried seems to be get a tax band A car which i believe attracts no duty. Anyway just my thoughts.

easy

As said above, this matter has been discussed umpty-three million times before on here. DVLA advice says one thing, Motability advice says another - and I don't believe that the DVLA don't know what Motability tell their customers.

My take on it is this. I have had a car on motabilty for the last 13 years, and ran my own cars with disabled exemption from road fund licence fee for some years before that. Occasionally my OH uses my car without me in it. Over all this time, no-one in a position of authority has ever questioned his use of my car. Nor can I recall anyone actually looking at the taxation class of my vehicle while I have been in it.

This includes one occasion when a police officer (on duty) had a long chat with OH about the merits of my new ford focus - he was thinking about buying one. He knew my OH was in it alone, he knew it was a motability leased car, he may have known it carried a free tax disc (I don't know whether he looked). The police officer didn't comment on the matter at all.


The discrepancy between DVLA and Motability (who apply to DVLA for all the tax discs after all, and are govt sponsored) shows that there isn't actually a right answer to this.
My experience (over many years) shows that the police (and other authorities) don't consider this a problem, and frankly I think they have far more important matters to deal with.
In most cases, the car that is used for (and taxed for) the disabled person is also the 'family car'. And in 99.9% of cases that is very much for the benefit of the disabled person concerned.

NeverInDebt

Personally I cant see a problem with a spouse using a car which is disabled class provided its used primary for benefit of disabled person/s ie using car to go to work (if disabled person is at home and cant drive) if it provides a income which that disabled person enjoys. Otherwise it seems crazy to have two cars one only to take disabled person out and another for spouse to go to work

There are people on here and real world who appear to be jealous of anyone who gets some sort of benefit, not saying op is in this case but some are, they get drip fed stories and abuse of some claiming to be disabled people abusing the system. I am sure many disabled people would much rather there were not.

Lum

There's also the point that the non-disabled partner is usually also the carer. If they're at work a problem arises that needs the carer to come home, then you really want them using the car, and not two busses, a train and 20 minutes walking to get home and deal with the situation.

By that reckoning, the car is outside the carer's workplace as a standby.

So yes, if you'd otherwise use PT to get to work, and need to be on-call. The car is totally being used to benefit the disabled person.