big jase

looking at geting a new scooby ( as ive sold my classic ) but dont like the idea of paying the goverment £400 per year road tax .

what is the newest scooby i can have for cheaper road tax and what will the road tax be on it ?. thanks

rewindnottm

i think its around 2001, mines a 2006 and its £420 i think...

Rob256

Anything registered before 23 Mar 2006 will stay in the K tax band which is currently £215 and goes up to £245 in 2010.

hodgy0_2

the cutoff point is 1 March 2001 -- that is when the V5 had to list a CO2 level on it

the banding then uses this C02 level to get the correct band

the price per band, as the government has shown can be retrospective

so we are in a bit of a limbo tbh -- the only reason the government back tracked on the higher price banding is the recession

I would have though post recovery it will come back in with a vengeance

scooby L

As Rob said, £210 for 12 months (cars reg'd no newer than 23rd March 2006)

alpinesparkster

The current system is such a rip off, when I bought my 56 plate hawkeye, I was looking about for an 06 plate registered just before 23rd march 2006 in order to get a "reasonable" (if thats the right word) car tax bill each year.

I couldn't find one I wanted at the time and got impatient so ended up buying the newest I could find for my budget.

It really gets my goat that someone with exactly the same model and emmisions pays half as much as me in tax.

No offence to anyone on here, my beef is with the governments car tax system.

sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

TomR555

iTrader: (1)

Should of kept the classic imho

nick172sport

iTrader: (6)

my car was registerd after september 2001 it is 51 a late one my tax has not gone up tu 400 per year its 115 for 6 months

Owen3408

Im with you on that one mate, couldnt believe it when i found out

Just paid £405

Dogfather

The best advice is to do what i did& go onto the Dvla website & ask the question by E-,mail they will e-mail you back telling you the answer.I tried to find out how much i would pay on a newly registered `99 Wrx Sti import & was told by the Dvla that the tax bracket of all imports depends on Co2 level of the vehicle no matter hold it is.I know everybody has got a different oppinion on this & there is people on here paying £200 for the same car but this is the answer i got off the Dvla on Monday.Just e-mail them & ask,but thats what my reply from them was.

addison

i hate paying the extra
but at the end of the day its about £3 to £4 a week extra

you can't do much with £4 a week

as a % of the cost of runing a scooby its not much

Just enjoy

Rob256

I spoke to them prior to buying my 03 sti as i was worried about it going up to £425 a year and was told that any car prior to march 2001 was banded on engine size.

After 2001 and up to march 2006 it was changed to emissions with banding up to K (Which is the impreza, currently £215), then after 2006 new cars are grouped into bands up to M (£405).

Therefore as long as you're car is registered prior to march 2006 it will be £205 this year then from 2010 £245.

After 2010 who knows but it should not change greatly, the same as cars registered prior to 2001 are still based on engine size and have not been included into the emissions bands car prior to 2006 should remain in the same band.

Tidgy

its def 2001 not 2006, they changed the wording to regestered rather than built to close the loophole on older imports, when you regester an import it will be in the banding system, if the emissions are known

Cars registered on or after 1 March 2001 (based on fuel type and CO2 emissions)

have a read

The cost of vehicle tax for cars, motorcycles, light goods vehicles and trade licences : Directgov - Motoring

scooby L

* Band K includes cars that have a CO2 figure over 225g/km but were registered before 23 March 2006
There lies the ditti that explains why cars registered before 23 March 2006 will be placed in band K mate

K
201-225
£215.00 12 months
£118.25 6 months

adehook

mines 2005

hodgy0_2

its simple its either post or pre 1st march 2001

28 Feb 2001 will not have C02 listed and will be taxed based on engine size

post 1st March 2001 will have CO2 listed so will be banded, what the bands are and what the government decide to charge in the future (given they have already indicated that they can and will be retrospective) is anyones guess

the 2006 date was a cop-out due to the economy falling of a cliff

its pre or post march 2001 that is the killer date

Tidgy

good spot, totaly missed that part

scooby L

It is a bit absurb, I've just bought a 2.5 tonne 2005 Discovery and pay half the road tax of my impreza...