Originally Posted by chazzyb (Post 1742415)

I understand that if the weight carrying capacity of a commercial vehicel with private use is 1 tonne or over, benefit in kind is £3000 for the vehicle and £500 (from memory) for fuel benefit, irrespective of value or CO2. Bloody good, if you want to drive that sort of thing (I don't). If you're a 40% taxpayer, that's £1400 pa tax, £700 pa for a basic rate tax payer.

Google for 'company van BIK'

If a hard top is put on over the load space and reduces the permissable load carrying capacity below 1 tonne, your're fooked tax-wise.

Oh, it looks as though the vehicle must have designed to carry goods, primarily. Seems HMRC look closely at double-cab pickups...