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Car benefit

Calculate the tax on your company car and car fuel benefit. Contact us to discuss how this can be reduced.

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About the car
(Maximum reduction allowed to list price is £5,000).
Enter as petrol if your car is a pre 2006 Euro IV compliant diesel
CO2 emissions
This information is in your registration certificate or use this search facility.
(For cars registered between 1.1.98 and 28.2.01 see www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk or www.smmt.co.uk).
Van benefit

The chargeable benefits have been increased for 2011/12.

To find out the cost of the benefit of a van please refer to this table:

  Standard rate (20%)
Benefit
(tax cost)		 Higher rate (40%)
Benefit
(tax cost)		 Additional rate (50%)
Benefit
(tax cost)
Van only - benefit £3,000 £600 £1,200 £1,500
Van and fuel for private use - benefit £3,550 £710 £1,420 £1,775
Employer's class 1A NICs:
Van £414
Fuel £76
Please note:

That there is no van fuel benefit if the employee pays for private fuel. If the van is unavailable for part of the year the van benefit is reduced proportionately.

There is no van benefit where the van is incapable of producing CO2 emmisions in use.