I wonder how long it will be before HMRC realise that they have been gypped out of squillions in company car tax? Will they look to the manufacturer or the owner?
It's significant that this was uncovered by the Americans; EU agencies are far too much in the pocket of big business. That's the main reason cars are so complicated, so heavy, and so expensive.
HMRC don't even know or care what the difference between diesel and petrol is.
The "department" comprises of a Grade 3 Secretary who wants either a Knighthood or a CBE before he retires; an Assistant Secretary who wants to be a Grade 3 Secretary; a Senior Executive Officer who would like to be an Asst Sec if he knew what the salary scale was, but is a little wary of the job description and the possibility of having to move from Harpenden; a Higher Executive Officer who hates the SEO and spends most of his time in the pub; an Executive Officer whose wife is expecting their third child and who just wants to get out of London, and an Assistant Officer (Pay Maximum about £22K) who actually runs the whole Department from her i-Phone while cheating on her husband.
None of these people have ever heard of VAT or Excise Duty.
None of them owns or drives a Volkswagen diesel car.
Some of these people have lunch with CEOs and agree that £6B of fraudulently-witheld tax isn't
really payable.........................
Been there. Retired exactly nine years ago next Wednesday.
Do I miss it? Have a guess.
DM
(See above for my opinion of capitalism - Marx had much the same idea. It just took too long for him to see it happen)