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Apologies if this question has already been asked.
If you have a motability car due to your disability which you need as a means to get around, it is in fact a form of a walking aid/scooter etc which you do get VAT Relief for. On this rationale it follows that if you need to purchase fuel for you vehicle, then shouldn’t you also receive VAT relief on the fuel that you put in it?
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The answers no! In the same sense you don’t get VAT relief for the electricity used to charge a scooter or for the shoes you wear to enable you to us your walking aid!
I’m sure you would get it for the shoes – anyway makes no sense at all seems to me like some government loop hole so they can continue making money out of us
This made me smile 😂 I love the rationale but it’s obviously completely unworkable. Not every use of every Motability car is for the direct benefit of the disabled person, whereas a VAT free disability aid is. I appreciate that the cars are VAT free, but that’s a block exemption that the government grant Motability.
I think we’ve had a clear message from this new government that they’re looking to increase the tax take, not lower it. With petrol and diesel prices back to low levels, there’s some speculation that they might reinstate the fuel price escalator which would result in a price hike of around 5p per litre. The last government never enacted it.
This made me smile 😂 I love the rationale but it’s obviously completely unworkable. Not every use of every Motability car is for the direct benefit of the disabled person, whereas a VAT free disability aid is. I appreciate that the cars are VAT free, but that’s a block exemption that the government grant Motability. I think we’ve had a clear message from this new government that they’re looking to increase the tax take, not lower it. With petrol and diesel prices back to low levels, there’s some speculation that they might reinstate the fuel price escalator which would result in a price hike of around 5p per litre. The last government never enacted it.
Its a given, the new govt have to get the £22 Billion hole in the finances the previous govt used to try and buy electoral votes…lol.
They do need to balance the budget, and we will all pay for the hole left in the finances.
Instead of fuel relief, its an easy hit to raise fuel duty, and every other tax to rise as well
This £22bn ‘black hole’ is an utter farce though. It sounds huge to us, but annual government expenditure is over £1,500bn, so it’s peanuts in the scheme of things. It’s being used as an excuse to implement unpopular policies when, in reality, they are choices rather than necessities – just as it’s a choice to throw money at certain workforces such as train drivers without any insistence on implementing long overdue modernisation and efficiencies. Sadly we’ve gone from one bunch of incompetents to another, and I fear that it’s going to get even worse.
It’s actually not £22bn its £2.7tn – but it all comes from the same pot – they just manipulate it and say it’s £22bn – but wait a minute we need £22bn for our net zero goals – ah that’s what they’ve done – so we bust a financial gut to attain net zero which won’t make any difference to climate change while other countries are pumping out all sorts of greenhouse gasses
Exactly & what has mad Ed spent £22bn on carbon capture on a tiny island, that won’t make a blind bit of difference, in the grand scheme of things. China is building new coal power stations, as we close are last, the world is near to war but, have no fear the eco warriors are about!
I look at VAT these days as something that doesn’t need to be paid if the item is unique and distinct because of your disability. ie no one else can benefit from it. So a walking aid that has been customised to suite your needs no VAT. A pair of shoes that anyone could buy attracts VAT.
Petrol can be used by anyone, hence there is VAT on it.
Indeed, the good old days of not having VAT on new cars is a thing of the past now, that nice little earner is a thing of the past. Unless anyone knows otherwise?
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Yes its a strange world when it comes to VAT exceptions?
A few years ago I ordered two new 12V 12A batteries for my mobility scooter from a Motability recognised adaption installer and the list price was without VAT if you sign the usual disclaimer. When the batteries had not turned up a few days later I rang the guy asking where the batteries were and he said he could not sell them to me unless I pay the VAT, he said because they can be used in golf buggies and because of that I had to get a refund and buy elsewhere VAT free.
Had the same buying a fold away table with a grab handle to help you get out of your seat and is also handy for putting your dinner plate on while sitting in your reclining seat but because the advertising guff for the table showed abled bodied folk using the table for their PC’s it required VAT to be paid even though they were only on sale at disability aids shops. After many, many searches I found a shop that allowed the VAT exemption but yes, its a funny old world when it comes to VAT.
If only I did not bother going to work all my life and became an MP instead I could of got everything free on expenses never mind the VAT. 😁😢😒
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