• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    In Switzerland there was apparently some kind of loophole in the tax system which allowed you to register your pickup truck as a company vehicle (and pay less) even when you don’t have any company or if you are just working as a hairdresser…

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      1 year ago

      I fucking hate these piece of shit cars. I will never not think that they all have to compensate for something.

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        1 year ago

        Pickup trucks are fine. It’s the huge ones with giant cabs and useless beds that are just a fashion accessory.

        “But muh work tools”, yeah just get a sprinter van like normal people. You can fit more, and you can close and lock it so your shit doesn’t get stolen out of the bed.

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          1 year ago

          Sometimes it’s down to more than what the vehicle can carry, but what the vehicle can tow. A pickup with a 3.5 tonne towing capacity might be a far more useful vehicle than a van that can only pull 1 tonne for example.

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            1 year ago

            Maybe, but the same “work pickups” you see everywhere also aren’t towing anything.

            But the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van has a towing capacity of 5000-7500 pounds, or 2.5-3.75 tons, depending on configuration. That’s the same range as most medium pickups.

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              Large vans are often made on the same chassis as trucks, so they have the same transmission and maybe a slightly reduced towing capacity

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              1 year ago

              I’m not decrying the abilities of a big van, I drive a 3.5 tonne Transit for work and love it. But we are comparing apples with oranges. I have a friend who owns a Nissan Navara. During the week it is onsite, dragging machinery around building sites. At the weekend it is a family car, taking the kids out etc.

              I do admit though, not all pickups are used in this way and my mate is probably in the minority where he has a genuine need for a vehicle that can handle the extremes of work life and home life.

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                1 year ago

                Yeah, and if you’re going to use one vehicle for both, that makes sense. Personally I wouldn’t use my personal vehicle for work like that, because if it gets wrecked somehow, my insurance won’t cover it, and I’d be out of a car until I fight the company’s insurance enough to get something out of them. But that might be a US thing.

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        1 year ago

        100%, you drive a vehicle like that and you are just screaming to the void “don’t look at my small penis and/or small paycheck”.

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      1 year ago

      Same in the UK. Very curious how all over the world, governments created exactly the same tax loophole. I can’t think which highly resourced industry might have been involved in “advising” them

      • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        At least in Switzerland, people were really using them for work until a few days ago.

        It was only farmers, carpenters or builders until it became a trend.

        I guess the law was okay before but they never thought that someone would want to have such a huge vehicle just to get groceries 😅