Another company car tax question

RRV8

Hi, new to these forums so hopefully I am doing this right.
I work as a sales rep, working from home and travel 30,000 business miles a year and have a company car. I have use of the car for private use but use it very little as i have my own personal car and motorbike that i use instead of my company car as my own car and bike are my hobby and the car is not practical to use with my dogs.

I could stop using the company car completely which would be a big benefit to me as I am charged around £3600 in benefit in kind tax but I know that it's not the use but the availability of the car that i am taxed on. i reimburse any private fuel I use.
Is there a way for my employer to prove to HMRC that i can't use it if they agree to say i can't use it for private use.please ? i already log all my calls and my mileage every day.
It's not possible to leave it at my office as it's 120 miles away and my working day can be anything from 7 am to 9 pm and I am away on business at least one night a week so i have no set hours.
Any help much appreciated.

Caz3121

since leaving it at the office and making it available to others as a pool car does not seem to be an option I suspect you are stuck with the BIK (based on car value and co2)
Do you have the option to take a car allowance when your lease ends and use your own car for work? that would save the tax but also put 30,000 a year onto your own car

RRV8

Hi, Thanks for the prompt reply, i don't think the allowance would be an option but i could ask in 3 years time when the lease runs out on this one.
Do you think having a tracker fitted combined with my mileage record would be sufficient for HMRC?
It used to be fairer in that if you did over 18K business miles a year the tax was reduced as you actually needed a company car, this way by doing 120 private miles a year, which is probably much more than i actually use it for, I am paying £30 / mile to use it.

Caz3121

If the car is available to you for personal use I don't think there is anyway around this, the fact that you choose not to use it for personal use is your choice

Darksparkle

If you are prohibited from private use and this is explicitly stated and you can prove there is no private use then you don't need to pay the company car benefit charge.

If you choose not to use it privately then you still have the charge. Your employer would need to prohibit the use.

A tracker is not required, a mileage log will do.

However you say you can't leave it at the office and travel from home to work is private travel so if you use it for that then there is private use.

RRV8

Hi, Thanks for the replies, I don't work at the office so not private use, i only travel to visit customers and maybe twice a year to the office for a meeting which isn't classed as private use.
I do keep a mileage log so i could potentially ask my employer to state i am not to use it for private use then as long as the mileage is monitored. I would probably fit my own tracker anyway in case it was queried.