Disability grants for vehicles

Before buying a vehicle for private use, it is important to know the aids available to buy and adapt vehicles . There are grants to buy the vehicle if it is to be used by a disabled person or to take people with disabilities, and there are also grants to adapt the vehicle.

These aids or benefits are both the discount that the dealer himself makes on the final price of the vehicle to people who certify that they government grants for individuals with disabilities are people with disabilities, up to tax exemptions.

On the one hand, people with disabilities who acquire a vehicle should know that they will not have to pay either the first registration tax (this must be notified in the place where the purchase is made in case they can manage this process) or the tax of circulation (the well-known "number" will have to request its exemption in the buyer's town hall).

There will also be a reduction in VAT for people with greater disabilities . Here it is specified when the right to the super-reduced VAT of 4 percent is recognized (Tax Agency).

These measures apply to a single vehicle and cannot be applied for less than four years.

To adapt the vehicle there are also aids. Carrying out adaptations to the vehicle is sometimes expensive, depending on the elements to be adapted. For this reason, aid can be requested from provincial entities and there are also organizations and foundations that offer support in this regard.

Administrative aid must be requested at the provincial social services delegations or institute where the owner of the vehicle resides. Every year the existing aid to adapt or purchase vehicles is published.

It depends on the Autonomous Community where the applicant resides, the help they offer can be global, to adapt the vehicle in general, or specific to adapt a specific element of the vehicle. That is, in some cases, specific help will be offered to put a mechanical accelerator, adapt the steering wheel, gears, etc.

For example, in Madrid, these grants are managed by the General Directorate of Social Services.

In Barcelona the procedures can even be done online, it can be accessed through Aid for the adaptation of vehicles .

For its part, the ONCE Foundation , in order to facilitate the labor integration of people with disabilities, calls for individual accessibility grants for employment. In this way, if a person needs money to adapt their vehicle because they need it to access a job, Fundación ONCE can provide part of the money to acquire the vehicle or adapt it.