Part 4U.K.Employment income: exemptions

Chapter 3U.K.Exemptions: other transport, travel and subsistence

[F1237AVehicle-battery chargingU.K.

(1)No liability to income tax arises in respect of the provision, at or near an employee's workplace, of facilities for charging a battery of a vehicle used by the employee (including a vehicle used by the employee as a passenger).

(2)Subsection (1) applies only if the facilities are made available generally to the employer's employees at that workplace.

(3)In this section—

  • “facilities”—

    (a)

    includes electricity, but

    (b)

    does not include workplace parking,

  • taxable”, in relation to a car or van, has the meaning given by section 239(6),

  • vehicle” means a vehicle—

    (a)

    to which Chapter 2 applies (see section 235), and

    (b)

    which is neither a taxable car nor a taxable van, and

  • workplace parking” has the meaning given by section 237(3).]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 237A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 8(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 8(1)