Commercial Vehicle List
 

Can anyone confirm if the ATO has an actual 'commercial vehicle list' or are the regulations as blatant as this?:

[URL="http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/content.asp?doc=/content/16391.htm&page=6&H6"]http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/content.asp?doc=/content/16391.htm&page=6&H6[/URL]

I think that link is to do with claiming tax for mileage regardless of whether your vehicle is commercial or not.

A quick google...

This is a Melbourne based site which lets you select your car make/model and it will spit out the classification (commercial or otherwise).
[url]http://www.citylink.com.au/pages/VehicleClassification/index.jsf[/url]

This gives a very basic summary of the classifications
[url]http://www.citylink.com.au/286.jsp[/url]

Not directly from the ATO but I hope it helps.

I eventually found the list, however its not entirely up to date.

Thanks for the feedback.

The last list I had wasn't too up to date...

However there is a formula the ATO uses to determine if a car is a commercial carrier or not.

It's something like amount of seats x std. weight of person must be less than the carrying capacity.

Or something like that. I remember the original Holden Crewman SS did not meet that criteria leaving a lot of people with a FBT bill they weren't expecting.

1 ton load capacity

don't think so. We have a few Berlingo vans at work and they wouldn't take 1 tonne, yet they are classified as commercial.

[QUOTE=spotydog;440164]1 ton load capacity[/QUOTE]

SS/XR8's are well under that, yet on the list as a commercial vehicle.

[url]http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.asp?doc=/content/00167339.htm&page=14&H14[/url]

Anyhow - what would I know about tax and cars.

So a 2008 manufactured Maloo ute is FBT exempt, but not a 2009 model?