Scrappage was to stimulate the motor trade, any other benefits (like removing old vehicles) were incidental entirely because, scientifically, scrapping a perfectly good car to be replaced by a newly manufactured one uses way more energy than keeping the old one on the road for the rest of its natural life. Keeping that vehicle on the road would also provide cheap transport for those with limited incomes and provide jobs from mechanics through to pattern parts suppliers. Most of the scrappage cars bought were made in Korea or Malaysia.
Using a relative's banger to purchase a car you were going to buy anyway, regardless of the purchaser's wealth, is against the spirit of the scheme and is in effect defrauding the taxpayer by abusing a (crappy) scheme brought in to help alleviate the cost of purchasing a new car in a recession.
Anyway, getting political. Suffice to say if I were in your shoes I'd not have used scrappage to buy my new car.
You say "tax planning", the Government calls it "tax avoidance", I call it "tax evasion". Potato/potahto.
- I might have been a little more patient and waited for one! Oh well, I'll have to stick with my slow under-powered non PPP C63 - with just the old Performance Pack, mine also has the rock-hard suspension (yes, I agree, it is extremely hard!!).
