Company Van Tracking

Navman company van tracking systems provide real time and historical information for your commercial fleet movements. GPS company van tracking data is transferred from your company van fleet through the mobile phone network to Navmans vehicle tracking servers. This van tracking data can be viewed both in real time and in history through our free online company van tracking software. Company van tracking systems from Navman are highly cost effective systems - typically delivering a 500-1000% return.

Navman company van tracking delivers precise information covering staff/van movements 24 hours a day at a touch of a button. Replacing or collaborating business critical paperwork completed by your company van drivers eliminates misinformation that can cause problems and embarrassment with customers, suppliers, the Inland Revenue and other authorities. Navman company van tracking systems deliver proof with accuracy of location and time information:

Advantages of company van tracking

• Eradicating paperwork (timesheets, job sheets, deliveries)
• Providing precise business & Private mileage
• Guaranteeing accurate travel times & distances
• Ensuring exact working hours
• Proving time on site
• Reducing invoice queries
• Exercising a duty of care to your employees
• Produce personal mileage information for HMRC (see below for tax issues and company vans)

Company Van Tax Issues

Workers who take home company vans overnight for personal use are facing a massive increase in their tax liability unless their companies act quickly, accountants and business advisers PKF has warned.

From 6 April 2007, the tax costs attributable to company vans has increased by 600 per cent from £500 to £3,000 equivalent to the tax on a £20,000 company car. If private fuel is provided, workers could face a tax hike of 700 per cent. PKF predicts HM Revenue & Customs will simply apply the increased levy to all company van drivers who are registered for the existing lower charge unless their companies write in before January, when new personal tax codes are issued. Company van drivers would simply be charged the higher level in their April pay packets.

The increase is set to have a major impact on the take home pay of employees who are given personal use of a company van. A worker who earns £15,000 and has access to a company van and fuel would face a tax increase of around £660 per annum from 6 April 2007.

PKF points out that to avoid the increases businesses will need to change the terms and conditions on which they provide company vans to reflect that they are not for personal use. Drivers will need to keep log books of mileage as the tax will not arise if personal use is 'insignificant'.

Brian Lovie, director of employment taxes at PKF said, "It is important for all companies that are going to be affected by the new rules on company vans and tax, to act in order that the impact on employees and the company is managed, and unnecessary tax costs are avoided."

"Given HMRC's existing workload and backlog, they haven't got the capacity to contact every company about the changes. The most likely outcome is that they'll simply apply new tax levels and wait for the reaction. That is going to cost individual workers who have personal use of company vans hundreds of pounds, and their companies thousands in national insurance."

"HMRC's target isn't really the 'white van man'. In reality, they're after managers driving the new breed of double cab pick-ups which, for tax purposes, are classed as company vans. But in closing that 'loop hole', the tax man is penalising drivers of ordinary company vans for whom this is a major increase."