as part of your job, you might be wondering whether you can legally use it for private journeys as well as company business.
Put simply, the answer is yes. There are no restrictions in law on the use of your company vehicle for personal journeys.However, there is a caveat here. If your employer has told you that you may use your car for business journeys only, you must abide by this rule. Why? Well, if that’s the case, it’s likely that your employer is not reporting the car as a company car, or paying tax on it as such.
If that’s the case, and you continue to use the car as a private vehicle, even for short journeys, you could find yourself in trouble, because the car would then be treated as a benefit – and you should be payingRemember too that, in the eyes of the law, commuting to and from a place of work is considered to be private use. So if your employer has stipulated that your company car is for work use only, you can’t drive it home – it has to be left at work.