Purchasing a new car does, at first, seem the sensible option. After all,
your payments give an asset that you, or your business, will own.

Vehicles Depreciate Very Quickly
But the difficulty with buying cars is that unlike property, they depreciate
more than time. Merely driving the car out of the sales room devastates the
value and the investment. So, is contract hire a suitable alternative?

For a start, contract hire and leasing will protect your business against
that depreciation that hits brand new vehicles. But obviously, you are still
paying over the long term for the vehicle.

First, The Tax Benefit
But as the car, or van, is being paid for on a monthly lease instead of
being purchased outright, you could then put the entire amount of
expenditure down on your balance sheet as costs rather than slowly writing
off the price of the vehicle over several years. So, contract hire offers a
tax benefit.

Straightforward Budgeting
Services such as basic maintenance of the car might be included in the
monthly premiums, if required. This means that you know from the outset the
exact price of the vehicle that you are acquiring and are not hit by sudden,
unexpected bills. Even the road fund tax could be included in the contract.

As well as including maintenance, the monthly price of hiring the vehicle is
fixed, rather than subject to interest rates varying on a loan. Yet another
reason why you are able to budget for the exact cost of the vehicle rather
than having to second guess what your bills may be this time in a year or
two.

Less Taxes On The Charges
Also, the supplier of the vehicle is able to reclaim the VAT on the purchase
of the vehicle initially, meaning that the price to them is lower, which in
the competitive market that we are seeing at the moment means that there is
a cost saving that they have to pass on to you, the end buyer.

Calculating Your Premium
So how is the cost of the contract hire calculated? Not an simple
calculation, but not too difficult. The cost of the vehicle to be bought
from new is taken as the starting point, less the included VAT that will be
recovered. Then the expected reduction on the vehicle for the duration of
your intended hire and leasing is worked out, based on the acquisition cost,
the length of hire and predicted mileage.

In short, this reduction plus interest charges and any optional extras is
what the total cost of your contract is going to be, which is divided over
the number of months that you intend to have the vehicle.

Obtaining your next company vehicle through car leasing can be
only what you need to reduce the costs whilst increasing the security of the
knowledge of exactly what the outlay should be.

The Perma Ramp is a totally new concept and  is designed to be easily adjusted and fixed down or left in place.

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Easy wash surface for long life and re-use Quick and easy to set up Unique gripdeck surface for sustained outside use Fixing options at top and bottom for secure location Excellent non slip surface

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Seriously though, the clip is apparently from a commercial that was being filmed so we’re guessing the man literally running inside the zorb was a professional zorber (do they exist?) or maybe they just gave a hard-up student a fiver and made them get in. Who knows?

Either way, that kind of zorbing really shouldn’t be tried at home. In fact, no kind of zorbing should be tried at home. So kids, if you want to have a go at zorbing make sure you go to a reputable company. There ends my lecture!

Personally, we think you’d have to be barking mad to even entertain the idea of climbing into a large, inflatable sphere and then willingly let someone push you down a hill. I can only imagine it feels like you’re trapped inside a washing machine.

Still, not everyone thinks like me as this mad sport is really taking off in the UK with loads of sites springing up all over the country offering zorbing. Oh and the kids tell me it’s not just standard zorbing anymore, you can now choose to roll down that hill in a completely blacked out sphere, or do a tandem zorb or even try one with water sloshing about in it. Now that really is like being on a washing machine spin cycle. Madness.

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