Originally posted by TheCyclingProgrammer
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Car Insurance - Business Usage - more expensive?
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"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR -
Originally posted by sal View PostYou are not YourCo, you are 2 separate legal entities.
YourCo Employee commuting to the the client using his personal vehicle is not business use. Otherwise 90% of people are using their cars for business....
YourCo Employee delivering pizza using his personal vehicle probably is, but it's not what the OP is asking i guess.
Someone using their car to deliver pizza (Business class 3) is different from someone travelling to business meetings (Business class 1).
Even if you are a permie and use your car to randomly travel to a meeting in the middle of the day at a different site then you need business use (Business class 1) on your car."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostThere is more than one class of business use for your vehicle.
Someone using their car to deliver pizza (Business class 3) is different from someone travelling to business meetings (Business class 1).
Even if you are a permie and use your car to randomly travel to a meeting in the middle of the day at a different site then you need business use (Business class 1) on your car.
Site to site travel (an interview for example) or any travel you would expense is business use.
I've had class 1 business use (or whatever they call it now) for decades, it costs a couple of quid a year. That's all you need unless you're carrying business goods/spares/stock in which case that's some other thing that costs more.Comment
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Originally posted by TheCyclingProgrammer View PostMight not even add that much if your mileage is low enough.
I find typically Fully Comp. to be less than TPF&T, TPF&T to be less than TP-only. You can even sometimes get a lower premium for higher mileage.Comment
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Mine was the same cost. Even as a permie you need business insurance if you ever use your car, for example, to attend a conference, training, client site or suchlike that isn't your regular place of work.Comment
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Would agree it adds very little cost.
Important to have though. You are travelling from your employers site (i.e. home) to a client site so its a business trip. As NLUK says, thats why you get to claim mileage.
I wouldnt want to risk having an accident and the insurance company looking into this and knocking the claim back.
Insurer - So you've got your own company yeh and you were travelling to another company who you've got a business relationship with? OK do thats a business trip then? OK let me see. Ah looks like you're not covered for business use. Sorry.Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!Comment
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If you claim your home as your office (as most contractors do?), travelling to client site is business travel. And, once you arrive at client site, if you need to use your car for any business related travel ie attend another client site for meeting, you will not be cover under your SD&P and commuting clause in your policy.
The extra cost is negligible. If your insurance co charges more than £50, you need to switch companies.I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!Comment
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostIf you claim your home as your office (as most contractors do?), travelling to client site is business travel. And, once you arrive at client site, if you need to use your car for any business related travel ie attend another client site for meeting, you will not be cover under your SD&P and commuting clause in your policy.
The extra cost is negligible. If your insurance co charges more than £50, you need to switch companies.Comment
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Originally posted by JRCT View PostDo any of you put that 'extra' through as a business expense, or just suck it up?I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!Comment
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Originally posted by JRCT View PostDo any of you put that 'extra' through as a business expense, or just suck it up?Comment
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