Southernlandy

Southernlandy

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As some of you may know, I am currently at college and I've nearly finished the rebuild of my 1989 90. This is going to form the basis of my Extended Project Qualification in which I need to research a title of my choice. I have decided to use the title "Investigating the success of a Land Rover Defender through a rebuild" and I will use the car as my artifact. Therefore I need to do some research so I have made a questionnaire and I would be grateful if I could have some responses as it would really help me with my research.

Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLCTHRM

For those of you who haven't seen my rebuild thread: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/1989-90-rebuild-245160.html
 
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Southernlandy said:
As some of you may know, I am currently at college and I've nearly finished the rebuild of my 1989 90. This is going to form the basis of my Extended Project Qualification in which I need to research a title of my choice. I have decided to use the title "Investigating the success of a Land Rover Defender through a rebuild" and I will use the car as my artifact. Therefore I need to do some research so I have made a questionnaire and I would be grateful if I could have some responses as it would really help me with my research.

Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLCTHRM

For those of you who haven't seen my rebuild thread: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/1989-90-rebuild-245160.html
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Done
 
Done... disapointed it wasn't open to Series too, and you may find my reason for buying a 110 rather complex the even more long winded, pointless explanation is...

Basically, if a business owns a vehicle and you use it for personal use you have to pay an additional tax on it, this is called "Benefit in Kind" and is calculated based on the value of the vehicle. This means if you have somethig like a D4 you'd be paying £8 --> £9k a year in tax just to be able to drive it.
A 110 Utility (5 seats, van back) and the pickups are classed as vans as far as the tax man is concerned, this has a capped Benefit in Kind value of about £3k therefore you can have a top spec 110 Utility and only have to pay the tax man £3k for the prvillage of using it for personal use.
You may wonder why you wouldn't just buy one yourself and not pay any tax... well... if the business owns it, all fuel is purchased by the business, all repairs, all justifable accessories which are required for business use, and most importantly the initial purchase of the vehicle - you can claim the VAT back on all of these. That and if you don't have the money yourself and want to take the money out of the buisness to buy a vehicle yourself, you'll have to pay tax on the money to get it out of the business, this can be 20% or 40% or at worst 50% of what you're taking out.

All in all, I couldn't upgrade a D3 Commercial to a D4 with 5 seats (which i needed) so had to buy a 110 Utility instead to get the seats i needed.

Any why did i need 5 seats? Nope, no kids, purely so i can take other people's kids away as i run a Scout group. Yep... i bought a brand new vehicle for that sole reason. Sad isn't it?
 
"Question 6 If you answered yes to the previous question, tick all the modifications that have been made." is not multi-choice selectable ;-)
 
Southernlandy said:
As some of you may know, I am currently at college and I've nearly finished the rebuild of my 1989 90. This is going to form the basis of my Extended Project Qualification in which I need to research a title of my choice. I have decided to use the title "Investigating the success of a Land Rover Defender through a rebuild" and I will use the car as my artifact. Therefore I need to do some research so I have made a questionnaire and I would be grateful if I could have some responses as it would really help me with my research.

Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLCTHRM

For those of you who haven't seen my rebuild thread: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/1989-90-rebuild-245160.html
Click to expand...

done
 
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