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

Chapter 6Taxable benefits: cars, vans and related benefits

Cars: appropriate percentage: first registered before 1st January 1998

142Car first registered before 1st January 1998: the appropriate percentage

(1)

The appropriate percentage for a car first registered before 1st January 1998 is determined under this section.

(2)

If the car has an internal combustion engine with one or more reciprocating pistons, the appropriate percentage for the year is—

Table

Cylinder capacity of car in cubic centimetres

Appropriate percentage

1,400 or less

15%

More than 1,400 but not more than 2,000

22%

More than 2,000

32%

For this purpose a car’s cylinder capacity is the capacity of its engine as calculated for the purposes of VERA 1994.

(3)

If subsection (2) does not apply, the appropriate percentage for the year is F132%.

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