For example people with jobs that require carrying a lot of equipment: plumbers, electricians, roofers, etc. . We don’t want everybody to suddenly “be a roofer”
For example people with jobs that require carrying a lot of equipment: plumbers, electricians, roofers, etc. . We don’t want everybody to suddenly “be a roofer”
Vehicles and drivers are all separately licensed and taxed anyway - so most of the infrastructure is there.
For commercial use - tie it into the owners tax return.
Disabled people get a blue badge anyway to get the parking spaces.
What do you mean by this? In what way would it be “tied”?
‘Tied’ by identity, owner owns vehicle (with license) , owner pays vehicle tax and or road tax and income tax.
You could , say, tax vehicles by weight or size. Each extra metre, each extra kilogram, tax goes up, a lot.
Then , if the owner makes commercial income from activity deemed to depend on haulage, and is due to pay income/corporation tax, then they could be allowed to a claim a vehicle tax deduction. If they don’t make (or won’t declare to tax authority) the commercial income, then there’s nothing to deduct from, so they pay the whole vehicle tax - or lose their vehicle/license.
If the owner wants to commit tax fraud by misdeclaring income, then the tax enforcement regime is already in place.
not a perfect system i’m sure , but its a possible mechanism using tax and licensing authorities that maybe already exist in many countries.