Benefit In Kind Re Company Vans

Hoenir

GEB1969 said:

Niv said:

GEB1969 said:

Bookworm225 said:

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it is your employer's responsibility to decide if there is a BIK to be declared on P11D.

keeping the van at home and commuting from home to work is private use and therefore triggers van BIK

Bookworm225 said:

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it is your employer's responsibility to decide if there is a BIK to be declared on P11D.

keeping the van at home and commuting from home to work is private use and therefore triggers van BIK

Thank you yes I appreciate that they do the P11d declarations but have been told it is now a BIK and just wanted to check as not used for personal use at all

Your commute to the same place of work every day is 'personal use'. But I presume you mean you don't use it for anything else.

Used for nothing else so does it need to be on our P11D as a benefit that my employee issues.

Yes. Employers are fined for incorrect reporting and filing of P11d forms.  Don't wait for a HMRC payroll audit to correct matters. There's also the Class 1a National Insurance liability to factor in as well. 

EnPointe

if you  travel to the same place of work  ( and then presumably  out to different places  hence the need for the van )   the  home to work  mileage is deemed as private  , if you  aren't travelling to differnet sites from  the your base site , there are questions about the necessity to have the van at all 

Bookworm225

GEB1969 said:

Niv said:

GEB1969 said:

Bookworm225 said:

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it is your employer's responsibility to decide if there is a BIK to be declared on P11D.

keeping the van at home and commuting from home to work is private use and therefore triggers van BIK

Bookworm225 said:

?
it is your employer's responsibility to decide if there is a BIK to be declared on P11D.

keeping the van at home and commuting from home to work is private use and therefore triggers van BIK

Thank you yes I appreciate that they do the P11d declarations but have been told it is now a BIK and just wanted to check as not used for personal use at all

Your commute to the same place of work every day is 'personal use'. But I presume you mean you don't use it for anything else.

Used for nothing else so does it need to be on our P11D as a benefit that my employee issues.

repeating the question does not change the answers already given

your employER must put the BIK on your P11D they issue because you have a works van available for your exclusive use which you keep at your home overnight and use it to drive (commute) to your regular place of work.
Commuting is always a private cost, not a business cost and anyway, the fact the van is at home overnight is enough to trigger the BIK even if you never drove so much as 1 meter in it. Technically the test is whether it is available for use, not do you use it. Sitting at your home makes it available for use.

The advantage of a company van compared to a company car is the BIK is cheaper