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Birmingham Tops England & Wales Company Vehicle League As GMB Calls For Sharper Distinction Between Tax Treatment Of Company Cars As Tools And Perks
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Date / 22 August 2005
A new analysis by GMB shows that there were 1,088,262 company vehicles in England and Wales last year. This was 4.3% of all vehicles in England and Wales. The City of Birmingham is at the top of the England and Wales league for the number of company cars with 17,164 representing 4.8% of the total vehicles in the City.
Next in the league was Leeds where there were 13,445 company vehicles. Third was Sheffield at 9,194 followed by Bradford at 9,116 and Kirkless with 9,109.
The numbers and percentages of non HGV company vehicles for the regions of England and Wales are shown below together with the top ten local authority districts.
For England as a whole there were 1,029,644 company vehicles or one in every 23 non HGV vehicles on England’s roads.
This analysis by the GMB is of the figures from the Vehicle License Data June 2004 published by the Department of Transport Statistics Road TSR4.
| Location | Company vehicles | % of all vehicles |
| England | 1,029,644 | 4.3 |
| South East | 254,135 | 4.1 |
| North West | 123,648 | 4.4 |
| South West | 116,524 | 4.2 |
| London | 115,701 | 4.3 |
| West Midlands | 113,771 | 4.5 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 103,697 | 4.6 |
| East Midlands | 97,628 | 4.5 |
| Wales | 58,618 | 4.0 |
| East Anglia | 55,479 | 4.5 |
| North East | 49,061 | 3.8 |
| Rank | Location | Company Vehicles | % Of All Vehicles |
| 1 | Birmingham | 17,164 | 4.8 |
| 2 | Leeds | 13,445 | 4.7 |
| 3 | Sheffield | 9,194 | 4.6 |
| 4 | Bradford | 9,116 | 4.8 |
| 5 | Kirklees | 9,109 | 5.2 |
| 6 | Bristol, City of | 8,191 | 4.8 |
| 7 | East Riding of Yorkshire | 7,993 | 4.5 |
| 8 | Manchester | 7,442 | 5.9 |
| 9 | Westminster | 7,180 | 11.5 |
| 10 | Sandwell | 6,543 | 5.9 |
Paul Kenny, GMB Acting General Secretary Said, “There have been significant changes in the tax treatment of company vehicles over the years. For some workers a company vehicle is just as essential a tool of their trade as is their bag of tools or their uniforms. For others it can be a perk and indeed a status symbol.
GMB would like to see the Inland Revenue tweak the tax rules to recognize more sharply the distinction between the company vehicle as an essential tool and a perk. This would be widely welcomed by workers who need their company vehicles to do their jobs.
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Contact: Rose Conroy, GMB Press Officer on 07974 251823 or Steve Pryle, GMB Press Officer on 07921 289880.
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