Motability cars - should they be UK made?

[Pandersmum]

Motability cars are currently in the news with suggestions VAT will be added. I realise they are a lifetime to some and a perk to others. They are a huge annual cost to the tax payer.

AIBU to think that all motability car choice should be limited to those manufactured in the UK? This would support British manufacturing worker jobs and increase UK business tax revenue whilst still providing cars for those who need them?

It's the same people on every thread like this making arsehole comments. They change their usernames (because they are cowards) but it's noticeable from their content and phrasing that it is the same person.

Car Wow discusses how disabled people could be profoundly affected:

https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/9787/motability-scheme-cuts-impact-on-drivers-with-disabilities#gref

I honestly can't keep up with it all. I still have no idea if the Government is going ahead with the changes to the point scores, with the daily living part of PIP, and now this is being touted about Motability. They seem to not realise that this all causes a lot of worry for people living with disabilities, and of course their carers.

That doesn’t really tell us much. I don’t understand how it would work practically if this is implemented.

It would cost more for people who have to have adaptations, is what I have understood.

I at least changed my mind after hearing people's stories on here.

That is good to hear. Those posters who are so honest about their struggles with their own disabilities, or those of their loved ones, have not bared all, to just be dismissed.

That's exactly what I have to do. Yesterday it was close to £30.

I will put a claim in but I'll probably get about £2.50.

I'm on the 'two week pathway' so in a short mount of time I have had, a colonoscopy, an endoscopy, a chest X-ray, an ultrasound and next week I have a CT scan.

I thank the goddess of debt for my credit card.

I can’t see that Motability will agree to pay the VAT on the new cars themselves. IMO, they may either ask for the VAT at the time of the advance payment; or they may spread it over the 3 year lease through the lease payments.

That may be ok, for some people who are well paid by work? I can’t see most people, living just on benefits being able to take a £2,000+ cut per year in their benefits, on top of COL increases, especially people who have to pay VAT on adaptations on top.

I think Car Wow are right to say the future of the scheme hangs in the balance. It could collapse?

See here:

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/chancellors-reported-plans-to-impose-vat-on-motability-could-add-3000-to-even-the-cheapest-cars/

The government can’t increase income tax on those on NMW and above, but can take it off the disabled, who live on less?