Car Tax Rise?
24 January 2008, 05:13 PM
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Car Tax Rise?
Hi, Can anyone tell me for certain when the car tax rises from £300 to £400 for the newer cars. Is it 1st of April. I ask because my car is on a SORN at the moment and I want to tax it just before it raises to £400.
Cheers all
Chris.
Cheers all
Chris.
24 January 2008, 05:50 PM
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yes 
no wonder there so many scoobys on the market atm
Edit: i just looked at this link and it says its currently £205 so its going up by £200?
The cost of vehicle tax for cars, motorcycles, light goods vehicles and trade licences : Directgov - Motoring
no wonder there so many scoobys on the market atm
Edit: i just looked at this link and it says its currently £205 so its going up by £200?
The cost of vehicle tax for cars, motorcycles, light goods vehicles and trade licences : Directgov - Motoring
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24 January 2008, 05:56 PM
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yes
no wonder there so many scoobys on the market atm
Edit: i just looked at this link and it says its currently £205 so its going up by £200?
The cost of vehicle tax for cars, motorcycles, light goods vehicles and trade licences : Directgov - Motoring
no wonder there so many scoobys on the market atm
Edit: i just looked at this link and it says its currently £205 so its going up by £200?
The cost of vehicle tax for cars, motorcycles, light goods vehicles and trade licences : Directgov - Motoring
24 January 2008, 08:26 PM
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these prices are ridiculous, just for driving on uk roads (which lets face it are not the best are they with pot holes everywhere) so we have to pay these astronomical prices to drive on roads that are gonna break our suspension and buckle our expensive alloy wheels ????
newer cars are sposed to be more efficient and better for the environment, but if older cars are going to be cheaper to tax then youll have to suffer my extra pollution from my 1995 wrx mr brown
my car tax last was £175 due in april i think
newer cars are sposed to be more efficient and better for the environment, but if older cars are going to be cheaper to tax then youll have to suffer my extra pollution from my 1995 wrx mr brown
my car tax last was £175 due in april i think
24 January 2008, 09:31 PM
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don't worry, the blanket 20mpg restrictions are just around the corner. That will save you money on fuel to make up for the tax...
(thats no joke btw, London is set to go 20mph as soon as the gov can push it through)
(thats no joke btw, London is set to go 20mph as soon as the gov can push it through)
24 January 2008, 10:01 PM
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25 January 2008, 07:25 AM
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What about classic cars aren't they exempt from road tax
? Surely they put a lot more crap in to the air than a performance car of the last ten years or so . Environment my ****, just the UK government picking on the motorist again.
Good job I left 5 years ago. My STI and Teg cost a big fat zero each year in road tax
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It really makes me angry how the UK goverment rape the motorist and hide behind the myth of global warming
? Surely they put a lot more crap in to the air than a performance car of the last ten years or so . Environment my ****, just the UK government picking on the motorist again.Good job I left 5 years ago. My STI and Teg cost a big fat zero each year in road tax
.It really makes me angry how the UK goverment rape the motorist and hide behind the myth of global warming
25 January 2008, 07:30 AM
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I can't believe we're having another car tax moan.
Even at £1000 per annum (£2.78 a day) it's still less than the cost of fuel I burn waiting for the engine to warm before driving and cool down after
Tax They'll get you anyway they can, but at least this one is optional.
Even at £1000 per annum (£2.78 a day) it's still less than the cost of fuel I burn waiting for the engine to warm before driving and cool down after
Tax
They'll get you anyway they can, but at least this one is optional.
25 January 2008, 07:48 AM
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I bet we don`t get any better road surfaces for the extra money that they are asking everyone to cough up, it will be the same pot hole riddled B roads where if you hit a decent sized hole it knocks your tracking out and some of the A roads aint much better.
At least Robin Hood robbed from the rich to give to the poor, Gordon Brown is doing the reverse and taking the mickey out of everyone.
At least Robin Hood robbed from the rich to give to the poor, Gordon Brown is doing the reverse and taking the mickey out of everyone.
25 January 2008, 07:57 AM
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^^^Robbing from the rich and giviing to the poor is exactly what he's doing.
This is tax band G we're talking about i.e. high performance and high consumption vehicles. These cars are not driven by the masses.
You shouldn't expect any improvements in the roads, that would only encourage more driving. Surely everyone knows that road tax doesn't pay for road improvements
This is tax band G we're talking about i.e. high performance and high consumption vehicles. These cars are not driven by the masses.
You shouldn't expect any improvements in the roads, that would only encourage more driving. Surely everyone knows that road tax doesn't pay for road improvements
25 January 2008, 08:07 AM
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Approx 64% in fuel tax we pay, £400 in road rax, its one big legalised p1ss take lol
25 January 2008, 08:30 AM
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But you obviously have a reasonably high disposable income if you can afford to buy/run a recent (band G) subaru. This makes you a perfectly ligitimate target in the eyes of a labour government.
25 January 2008, 09:50 AM
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No one will ever pay £1000-£2000 for road tax. Thats insane. Its like supply and demand, they raise the price too high and they will have more people dodging tax or just not owning. Its just scaremongering.
25 January 2008, 10:49 AM
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the way I see it these supposed "gas guzzlers" should pay the least road tax as they are using a lot more fuel than joe average and therefore paying a lot more tax so they are being hit twice.Other side of the coin is that in my opinion road tax should be calculated by the size of the vehicles ie big mpv type 4x4 should be taxed higher in the attempt to reduce the number of these needless school run vehicles on the road,I also think engine size should be taken into account also.I mean how can there be 2 different tax brackets for an identical car just because one was registered later than the other one its ridiculous but unfortunately I cannot see anything being done about it.Time to ship out of this communist country I think
25 January 2008, 11:31 PM
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i put twenty quid a week in mine and some tosser rep is up and down the motorway putting 100quid a week in and i am paying more road tax wtf is going on