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Company car

  • 13-06-2016 3:59am
    #1
    CaraMay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭


    Is the girlfriend of a company owner entitled by law to a free company car even if she has no involvement with the company?


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  • #2
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    No.

    Whyever should she be???


  • #3
    barneystinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,685 ✭✭✭barneystinson


    CaraMay wrote: »
    Is the girlfriend of a company owner entitled by law to a free company car even if she has no involvement with the company?

    What do you mean "Entitled by law"?

    Entitled in the sense that she can lawyer up and petition a court to enforce that entitlement? If so, certainly not.

    If you mean is the company allowed to legally provide a car to whomever it wants, then the answer is yes, BUT...

    ... not without incurring substantial tax cost.

    Since you're asking the question in the tax forum I presume it's the latter, and the simple answer is don't do it. EDIT: The reason I say don't do it is that there would be a BIK equivalent to 30% of the original market value of the car (note, not the price the company pays for it if it's 2nd hand).


  • #4
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Girlfriends have no legal rights at all besides those they already have as an ordinary citizen as far as I know


  • #5
    CaraMay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    It's not for me


  • #6
    CaraMay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    So can a director have more than one company car?

    Can you find out who the owner of a car is?


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  • #7
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    This has nothing to do with taxation. IMHO it's starting to sound like something personal...


  • #8
    barneystinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,685 ✭✭✭barneystinson


    CaraMay wrote: »
    So can a director have more than one company car?

    Can you find out who the owner of a car is?

    A company can provide whatever benefits it (or the director) wants, it's only a question of whether the appropriate benefit in kind is applied.

    You can't find out who the owner of a car is, but if you think there's a tax issue you can pass your concern on to Revenue, who can.


  • #9
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    CaraMay wrote: »
    Is the girlfriend of a company owner entitled by law to a free company car even if she has no involvement with the company?

    No. Never. Ever.


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