Import cars and road tax rip off.
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Import cars and road tax rip off.
Here's one to cheer you up.
Apparently any car REGISTERED OVER HERE after August 2006 is liable for the new band G road tax. That's £300 a year to you right now Sir, and £600 as soon as they think they can get away with it. This includes Import cars, including the 2003 350Z and the 2005 Spec C my brother just imported!
The justification for this theft is CO2 emission levels.
Have a nice day!
Apparently any car REGISTERED OVER HERE after August 2006 is liable for the new band G road tax. That's £300 a year to you right now Sir, and £600 as soon as they think they can get away with it. This includes Import cars, including the 2003 350Z and the 2005 Spec C my brother just imported!
The justification for this theft is CO2 emission levels.
Have a nice day!
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Write to your MP! Its a nonsense after all: how can they state what your CO2 emmissions are when the car (a new car supplied by the manufacturer) hasnt been tested during type-approval?
The regulations were drawn up with a vehicles date of first use in mind, not first registration. This is a mistake (it wasnt applied to all cars, but soon it will be if left unchecked) which is spreading quickly. Soon itll be accepted as the 'norm' (a little like should of instead of should have / should've spoken by the il-educated).
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The regulations were drawn up with a vehicles date of first use in mind, not first registration. This is a mistake (it wasnt applied to all cars, but soon it will be if left unchecked) which is spreading quickly. Soon itll be accepted as the 'norm' (a little like should of instead of should have / should've spoken by the il-educated).
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I heard from March 2008 all cars that are made with 2litre engines + will have £300-£600. But obverasly the usa still pay f*ck all for tax and petrol although there 50times bigger then uk.
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Gordon Brown is to "heal the world" though....
How that's not a conflict of interest, I don't know
Still, with the economy in tatters and house prices on the way down, it's not going to be quite the happy fluffy spring election that he'd envisaged.
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How that's not a conflict of interest, I don't know
Still, with the economy in tatters and house prices on the way down, it's not going to be quite the happy fluffy spring election that he'd envisaged.
J.
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Hey Alex, I'd keep quiet about that! You'll find them sneaking around your place in the night, sniffing your emissions...
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Without wanting to spit out the egg that youre teaching me to suck ()... I do understand that, my point is that these values should only be taken from new manufacturer-supplied vehicles submitted for type-approval testing. Figures achieved from a 50,000 mile car used for the comparison test are irrelevant.
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