HMRC does U-turn on double cab pick ups

They say a week is a long time in politics.

This is all it has taken for HMRC to reverse their guidance, issued on 12th February, whereby Double Cab pick ups were to be reclassified as company cars.

7 days later, after listening “carefully to views from farmers and the motoring industry on the potential impacts of the change in tax-treatment” HMRC have now decided to withdraw this guidance, meaning that Double Cab pick ups with a payload of 1 tonne or more will continue to be treated as goods vehicles for the purpose of both benefit-kind and capital allowances.

The full press release from HMRC can be found here.