iainkirk Posted April 17, 2005 Report Posted April 17, 2005 My employer has asked me and my other half to go and run several sites on The Isle of Lewis for the next 9 months. We are off to Stornoway on Monday for 4 days to do a reality check and decide if we will do it. How the hell am I going to get my Galaxy serviced without paying a return crossing on CalMac to Ullapool??? Quote
NikpV Posted April 17, 2005 Report Posted April 17, 2005 Will you do 10K in 9 months on Lewis???? if not get it serviced before you go - I'm sure an extra one would be fine :D :D Quote
iainkirk Posted April 17, 2005 Author Report Posted April 17, 2005 Very true! However I suspect I will still end up doing at least 1200 miles a month on the island. Lets hope we don't have any breakdowns!!! Quote
Ivor_E_Tower Posted April 17, 2005 Report Posted April 17, 2005 What are you going to run? Construction sites, water works or sewage works? I did a fair bit of consultancy work in the "good old days" for bits of Scottish Water's predecessors (Scottish Regional Council water services departments). Not sure that I fancy working on Lewis though; Aberdeen or Dundee, definitely :D Quote
Guest vr6galaxy Posted April 17, 2005 Report Posted April 17, 2005 Why not get a hire car and stick on it on the company's bill? that way they are covering the costs, insurance etc and the serviceing and the break down cover are not your worry, does your insurance cover you for work use like this? Quote
gregers Posted April 17, 2005 Report Posted April 17, 2005 i was thinking the same thing about the company paying for a hire car ,if he has class 2 bussiness use he will be coverd to use the car for work its not a lot on top of the annual premium,some insurers give this free. Quote
iainkirk Posted April 17, 2005 Author Report Posted April 17, 2005 Basically, if we go to Lewis, we will be taking the Galaxy over and leaving the Vectra at Glasgow airport or at one of our sites nearby. We would only take the Galaxy over via CalMac/Ullapool after we had found somewhere to live. Prior to that (as this week) we would fly from Glasgow and pick up a company-provided hire car at Stornoway airport and stay in a company-paid hotel. That isn't a solution long term as the hire car would attract tax as a company car. Company pays the ferry fare to take the car over/back anyway. We will be on Lewis on a 17 days out of 21 days basis, ie 3 days at home plus half a day's travel time either side, the company paying our return air fares on BA. Car fuel for Galaxy and Vectra is paid for by them anyway. Travel time from Stornoway is 50 minutes on the plane and 1 3/4 hours drive back to Carlisle, so it's quite a short journey in reality, given where Lewis is! Galaxy is financed by car allowance, as is the Vectra (we both work for same company), so we're obviously obliged to use at least one of them. Besides, the tax relief on business mileage is useful as well. Construction sites are classed as temporary locations, hence all our work mileage attracts tax relief. We have Class 1 business use insurance on both cars. The carrot? Between us we will be getting an extra 27k a year, 17k of it as tax free subsistence (and obviously paying no travel costs), so Ivor, would that increase the attraction??? Obviously, we have to rent and run an extra house out of that, but that probably still leaves the best part of 15 grand a year in our pockets <G>. Ivor, we're building a new sewage works and some CSOs in Stornoway itself - about 9 million quid in total, plus my other half will be running the admin for other sites on the Western Isles from there. Quote
Ivor_E_Tower Posted April 18, 2005 Report Posted April 18, 2005 It's looking quite tempting; the "extra" money you get is roughly equal to all I get at the moment (before tax) ..... so a 100% increase in salary would certainly make me think very carefully ! Quote
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