Can anyone explain how Company car tax is calculated in Belgium..? I believe it is based on 'Fiscal Horspower'... how is FS calculated and how is the taxable benefit worked out..?
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Sorry not to be more helpful, but if the 'fiscal horsepower' calculation is anything like that of France it bears absolutely no relation to the real world and is hugely biased in favour of French cars.
Good luck...
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How is the French system biased to French cars? If a car has a certain number of units of power, measured in whatever units are used, then that is what it has got, whether it comes from France , Germany or India.
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AS
Probably more likely that French cars have been designed to use the French system to their advantage. I believe it's not related to power output. The example is the very old RAC horse power rating in the UK, used for road tax purposes. It had had nothing to do with power output but was calculated on the basis of the cylinder bore and number of cylinders. Bore dia in inches squared x no. of cylinders / 2.5 if I recall correctly. Result? Most mass market cars of the 30's and 40's had small bore, long stroke, 4 cylinder engines to minimise road tax.
JS
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JohnS - you are indeed correct! I now recall the long stroke engines that resulted from the formula used. Thank you for the clarification.
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A "fiscal horsepower" rating scale is used in France, Spain and Italy - it is based on the car's engine size AND power, e.g. an engine of 71 to 85 kW (96 to 116 PS) is rated at 9CV for an engine up to 1750 cc, but 10 CV for 1751 cc and over.
Obviously, each country tweaks the ratings to favour cars popular in its home market, especially the domestic product (all of this was invented decades before the ravages of globalisation and EU harmonisation were with us).
In Britain there was a time that company car tax bands were set at 1300 and 1800 cc engine sizes which neatly "coincided" with the most popular BL engines of the day.
An up-and-coming sales rep aspiring to t'area manager's Marina 1800 TC - eeeh, them were the days, lad!
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The French system still uses CVs - 'chevaux vapeur', or 'steam horses'. 'Nuff said'?
Actually, it isn't 'nuff said'. Why does a French car with a 2-litre petrol engine always come out at least 3cv lower in taxation rating than any import? There isn't a logical answer to this question - so we who won't drive the home product have to console ourselves that we can afford to pay to be different...
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FWIW, the French fiscal rating is calculated thus:
Pa = (CO2/45) + (P/40) x 1.6
Ou la puissance fiscale dépend de la valeur normalisée d'émission de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) en grammes/km et de la puissance maximale du moteur en Kw.
So for my Legacy, that's:
Power = 121 Kw (= 164.4 CH)
Co2 = 198 g/km
= (198/45) + (164.4/40) x 1.6
= 4.4 + 6.576 = 10.976
So the car is rated 11CV
Davros
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Wow, impressive.
So that's why, when I went to the prefecture and asked how much it would cost to register a V12 Jaguar, the woman behind the counter really did throw up her hands and say 'oooh la la'...
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