Emergency Services: Fringe Benefits

(asked on 5th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of emergency service staff using emergency vehicles for private use that have been affected by the changes to taxable benefits: asset made available without transfer introduced in the Finance Act 2017.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 10th September 2018

The government has already announced it will be introducing changes to provide transitional protection, retrospective to 6 April 2017, to mitigate the impact to users of emergency vehicles of the changes to the taxation of assets made available without transfer.

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