Pickup Canopy - VAT treatment

[Jerry]

Im just shopping around for a new pickup at the moment and spent this afternoon visiting Ford/VW/Toyota/Nissan/Izuzu.

One of the dealers said it would be hard to claim the vehicle is commercial if I put a canopy on the back of it. Im not talking an Ifor Willaims type rather a Truckman type.

None of the other dealers mentioned it and not heard that before.

I will be checking with my accountant when he is back in the office in the new year.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Im just shopping around for a new pickup at the moment and spent this afternoon visiting Ford/VW/Toyota/Nissan/Izuzu.

One of the dealers said it would be hard to claim the vehicle is commercial if I put a canopy on the back of it. Im not talking an Ifor Willaims type rather a Truckman type.

None of the other dealers mentioned it and not heard that before.

I will be checking with my accountant when he is back in the office in the new year.

How else you going to lock your tools in there?

 

[Jerry]

How else you going to lock your tools in there?

Exactly, you see enough builders pickup around with canopies for instance. I will probably be adding a bit of sign writing to the rear window as well, so 100% commercial.

The salesman in question was from VW but they have ruled themselves out as it only tows 3.1t and would be lucky to see it in the UK this side of June.

 

[wr.]

Bollox

 

[slackjawedyokel]

From memory, in order to be classed as a light commercial vehicle your twin cab pickup has to have a payload capacity of at least 1000kg, and the canopy is on top of that tonne so you have to check the cargo capacity of the truck and the mass of the canopy in order to legitimately reclaim the vat.

 

[GTB]

One of the dealers said it would be hard to claim the vehicle is commercial if I put a canopy on the back of it. Im not talking an Ifor Willaims type rather a Truckman type.

Load of rubbish!

 

[Grouse]

Double and triple bollox - he's full of poo !

 

[Greenbeast]

From memory, in order to be classed as a light commercial vehicle your twin cab pickup has to have a payload capacity of at least 1000kg, and the canopy is on top of that tonne so you have to check the cargo capacity of the truck and the mass of the canopy in order to legitimately reclaim the vat.

this isn't at question surely? it doesn't have to be a 'light commercial vehicle' to be a business expense?

 

[GTB]

The salesman in question was from VW but they have ruled themselves out as it only tows 3.1t and would be lucky to see it in the UK this side of June.

I think he's ruled himself out anyway by talking bulls**t!

 

[Wombat]

As someone else said if the canopy takes the cargo capacity below 1000kg then it's no longer classed as light commercial not sure if it would affect the Vat claim

 

[Grouse]

Just buy them separately then, 2 invoices, both paid for by the business, both business assets and then claim the VAT as normal.

 

[ollie989898]

rubbish. Sorry, the vehicle is either classified as commercial and thus VAT reclaimable or it isn't. What if you bought it and put a canopy on subsequently?

What if you bought one with a canopy on it, and then subsequently removed it?

Also, why in the world are you not looking at the new Navara?

 

[Grouse]

Chassis rust ? Personally I'd go for a Ranger with the 3.2 - best looking pickup and best engine imho.

 

[Jerry]

[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 3295492, member: 54866

Also, why in the world are you not looking at the new Navara?[/QUOTE]

I am and think it's between that and the ranger until I have them on test drive.

 

[Archie]

Just buy them separately then, 2 invoices, both paid for by the business, both business assets and then claim the VAT as normal.

Surely any salesman/dealer worth their salt & wanting a sale would bury the cost of the canopy within the invoice total.

No mention of it then no need for 2 separate invoices & no need for HMRC to be querying whether or not you can still fit 1000kg in it.

 

[multi power]

What has either 1000kg or the canopy got to do with it? It's a business item so you are entitled to claim the vat

 

[S J H]

From memory, in order to be classed as a light commercial vehicle your twin cab pickup has to have a payload capacity of at least 1000kg, and the canopy is on top of that tonne so you have to check the cargo capacity of the truck and the mass of the canopy in order to legitimately reclaim the vat.

I think you're right there, a friend had a vat inspection and was told that this is the case, although I can't understand it as you can claim back vat on a fiesta van

 

[Forever Fendt]

What has either 1000kg or the canopy got to do with it? It's a business item so you are entitled to claim the vat

This

 

[multi power]

I think you're right there, a friend had a vat inspection and was told that this is the case, although I can't understand it as you can claim back vat on a fiesta van

You can claim back the vat on a car, as long as you can demonstrate it's a business item

 

[S J H]

You can claim back the vat on a car, as long as you can demonstrate it's a business item

That's what I thought, you could put a Range Rover on the business if you were a chauffeur so what's the difference ? Surely they'd be claiming the vat back?