I'm fully expecting road tax of the gas guzzlers to be hiked to massive levels .... will this be the final nail in the coffin?

VAT will be 20% hence lifting fuel even more ..... doomed, the performance car. RIP

 

you better sell up now then because you sure as hell wont be able to sell them afterwards

 

Money is not ban issue to many, so no.

 

My predictions are 50p on a packet of cigs (not bothered as I dont smoke ) and 10p on a pint of beer

Tony

 

I'm enjoying my scoob the now and calling it a day when petrol is £1.50 a litre

 

Lets be honest, the motorists are always the first to be raped by whatever government is in power. Sadly we're the easy target and always bend over and take it.

 

Haha. Excellent. Plus it's absolutely true. We might moan, but we always end up with the shaft!

 

The fuel tax escalator has been in place for ages now and is so successful that no government will abolish it.

Hybrid cars FTW

 

Vehicles should be taxed on weight; Price all all of these dawdling 2ton SUVs that get in my way off the road and get traffic moving again.

 

bloody hope they never are or i'm screwed

 

Dazzler I don't think Ali means with driver in it

 

cheeky ****

 

That'll be the next tax; Obesity tax..comming soon to a McDonalds near you

 

I suggest a £10^(2+n) pregnancy tax, where n is the number of children....

dunx

 

Wasn't the fuel tax escalator abolish by the Labour party in 2000.

 

Vehicles should be taxed on mileage bands! payable at MOT time.

 

Yes, the Tories introduced the Fuel Tax Escalator .... NL wiped it out .... get ready for Tory Fuel Tax Part 2!!

VAT will be 20% that's a done deal.

1% hike in NI for Employees - not the Tory Employers!

Get ready to be robbed!!!

 

The easy way to do that is scrap road tax altogther and add it to fuel.....if you don't do any mileage, don't pay any tax........drive a million miles a year, pay loads of tax......no need to SORN a car, no way anyone can aviod it etc etc...simples really

 

Aren't the new government committed to a fuel duty stabiliser - ie. fuel duty will decrease when oil prices are high and increase when they are low(er), aiming to smooth out some of the spikes?

The was a good interview with Cameron in the motoring section of the Daily Torygraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...-motorist.html) which suggests he might not bleed motorists quite as dry as the last few governments have, but I'll believe it when I see it.

 

i have spent years saying that, reps doing 100,000 + miles paying less tax than me doing 5,000

 

pslewis is for the most part wrong - the Tories definitely won't introduce massive road-tax hikes on cars that are already on the road now. Some form of increase on showroom models, maybe, but after the way they laid into Labour when they planned to do it for cars back to 2001, they'd never live it down if they went and did the exact same thing themselves.

 

Some of us will be fine ...

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TX.

 

^^^HA!^^^ Excellent!

 

Don't you believe it!!!

 

The Labour government allowed/instigated a 6% rise in Motorcycle Tax this year alone... Thats 6% more than most peoples pay rise I would imagine...
Nobody even noticed....
The fuel price is the Killer, The price of road tax in the budget of running an Impreza for a year is relatively little.
If we were that bothered about fuel price, we wouldnt own Imprezas...and the same conversation comes up weekly/daily...
We'll just sit back and enjoy the rogering as normal

 

Toriews introduce fuel tax hiker
NULabia abolish it in 2000

Yet the biggest rises in fuel duty have been from 2ooo onwards...

hmmm, anyone else not willing to suffer the spin anymore?

 

Whats that? 2 quid more a year?

Tony

 

Lord Clarkson for unelected Transport Minister anyone?

 

Summer's comming.....TAX CARAVANS....NOW

£1000 for a single axle, and £2K for one of those stupidly over-sized twin axle things.

 

E.F.A.

Andy