Hi guys/gals, I am soon gonna be a proud owner of s70d and wanted to know if anyone had some idea which is better. Lease vs Finance. From a business lease vs personal loan. I was told that if leasing (under a business) you can only right off a maximum $900 a month and if I were to finance it I can invoice the business .50c a km. Was wondering if anyone had this similar issue and if so what did you do? Appreciate any help..
You can only invoice the business 30% per per year calculated on up to $30,000, plus interest, plus repairs plus the applicable HST if you collect and remit. I think thats the formula.
WOW:biggrin: Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry to be a pain but is that for leasing or is it just the standard maximum for both?(leasing & Financing) Thanks again
I'm self-employed and used to lease all of my cars prior to my Tesla. When I got mine 18 months ago, leasing was not an option in Ontario so I financed mine with the Scotia 7 year @ 3.99% package being offered by Tesla. What I now do for taxes is use the car allowance price per km that the CRA allows. This is an all in amount so you don't claim other expenses separately. When I compared the leasing method to this one, I think I'm doing better using the mileage allowance.
I also take the mileage approach, I believe it's $0.55/km for the first 5000km/year, and $0.50/km thereafter. In general I drive about 35k per year 20-25k for business.
Thanks serving. I'm now being torn between these 2 issues and feel that I'm gonna lean towards leasing in the event tesla goes bad (20% chance) at least I'll have someone to buy the car in case. I dont want this but could happen.
Financing about half the vehicle....I plan on keeping mine a while and do not want to be hampered by mileage overages etc.