If a company-owned car comes used in private use more than 10 times per year or over 100 miles, it is classified as a benefit car according to the Swedish Tax Agency. With a benefit car, it’s perfectly okay to use the car privately. For example. to bring the children from kindergarten, grocery shopping and drive to & from the workplace. Although there is more freedom with a concession car then a driving record is needed.
In the event of an audit from the Swedish Tax Agency, risks you a retroactive benefit taxation up to 5 years if you cannot prove what is private drives and drives in the service. Drop a tax hit and use NorthTracker electronic driving record.
You can keep track of all this through NorthTracker’s electronic driving record that saves all trips automatically up to 7 years, as required by the Swedish Tax Agency.
The Swedish Tax Agency puts it this way: “We recommend that a driving record must contain:
• Meter reading at the beginning of the year
• Meter reading at the end of the year.
In addition to that, the driving record should also have the following tasks:
• The car’s registration number
• Current year
• Date and meter reading at the start and end of the journey
• How many kilometers the employee drives each trip
• Which address the journey started from and ended on
• Purpose/purpose of the trip
• Which places, companies or contact persons it employees have visited (not needed for private trips)
• Notes on car drivers and refueling and more.”
NorthTracker’s electronic driving record follows yours benefit car via GPS tracker where you can see via app or computer exactly where the car is, this helps the police to recover your car more quickly in the event of a theft. The GPS tracker is placed and installed under the steering wheel so you can track the location of the vehicle.
It also includes basic theft protection digital driving record. There you can mark one safety zone on the map and see where the car is. Should the car leave the safety zone, an alarm will be sent via SMS, email and push notifications so that you can act in incident of theft and contact the police.
If you have a business, you can also add Alkolås as additional service so you can guarantee sober drivers within your organization. This leads to better and more procurements.
Keeping track of this manually is time-consuming challenge. You can avoid this with NorthTracker’s digital driving journal. Contact us for more information about driving records below.
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