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kjmcculloch83


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I've had a read of HMRC's guidance on this and still can't decide.  I have a client who has a Nissan Nivara which he uses for work (self employed).

He's just come to me for some bookkeeping and self assessment.  I can't decide whether the vehicle is plant and machinery or not.  

Any ideas?

Kris



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Ooh, we did this one a year or so back and it's a juicy one. Hang on I'm going to find the old post as it's definitely one that we all need to know for all of our clients who simply must have a 4wd monster truck to go to Sainsbury's!

Back in five.

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Darn it, can't find the post I'm looking for.

Annoyed at that as it was one of the first debates with Bill and Myself as contributors.

here's a handy link to a useful snippet from Accounting web :

http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/question/car-or-van

And also a few bits that I picked up from other posts on here whilst doing the search (I think that the second one may be useful to your question Kris) :

- The land rover Defender is a car not a van but if it is the variant with more than nine seats then its a minibus!

- With a pickup, if it has a single row of seats its a van but if it has a double cab it's a car!

- load bearing capacity affects the determination as to whether the vehicle is a car or van.

Is it just me or is anyone else finding the HMRC search facility a lot less useful than it has been in the past? Almost feels as though the search doesn't want us to find the information that we're looking for!

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After saying that the HMRC search facility was failing me I just found this although it doesn't cover Nissans :

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageLibrary_ShowContent&id=HMCE_PROD_010443&propertyType=document

And this. (plus the links off it).

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM23110.htm

HTH.



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What a nightmare this is turning into. Now it's not good enough to be a bookkeeper we need to be vehicle examiners too.

Kris

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kjmcculloch83 wrote:

What a nightmare this is turning into. Now it's not good enough to be a bookkeeper we need to be vehicle examiners too.

Kris

lol Kris.

Sounds as though Neil (SpamKebab) and Bill (Wella) both made the right moves then!



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