Part 3Employment income: earnings and benefits etc. treated as earnings

Chapter 6Taxable benefits: cars, vans and related benefits

General

118Availability for private use

1

For the purposes of this Chapter a car or van made available in a tax year to an employee or a member of the employee’s family or household is to be treated as available for the employee’s or member’s private use unless in that year—

a

the terms on which it is made available prohibit such use, and

b

it is not so used.

2

In this Chapter “private use”, in relation to a car or van made available to an employee or a member of the employee’s family or household, means any use other than for the employee’s business travel (see section 171(1)).