People need to be very aware of current legal tax and discrimination. At the moment Motability have been given terms equivalent to those available only for permanent and substantially adapted cars for all its vehicles. The tax exemption alone is worth between £2,500 and £12,000 per car, that would be a substantial extra cost to the scheme, meaning either the mobility element wouldn’t cover the lease or the required advanced payments would be astronomical. Add in all the other benefits and the scheme would be centred exclusively towards those in either wheelchairs or who are carried in stretchers.
The long term impact on the motor industry in the country would be brutal. While some would be able to either lease through a different source or purchase at will, many who don’t have the ability to acquire decent credit could well find themselves either driving some unreliable piece of crud or stranded at home needing a taxi service to get around. I’m fairly positive the political impact of being the government ensuring that scenario comes to reality would be very difficult to prevent being substantially harmful to poll rankings.
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Mark