Glad your not in Ireland 2

[Guest]

Brian Cowen has just put the car tax up another 9% across the board here and if you are in an S2 it goes up by 11% .....[]

The VRT rate is going up as well... Good news if you are thinking of taking a Nissan Micra in to the country as it is only 14% but if want to VRT an S2 well its 36% of the "Open market value" of the car so there goes my chance of ever having an S2 in the street.......[:'(]

What about just having the VRT and tax set at €100 or sommit for a car of 15 years or more or is that too much to ask Brian Cowen and his Green Party buddies. .......[:'(][:'(]

The turbo is going to cost me €900+ to tax this year.... ugggggghhhhhhh I feel sorry for the lads who are going to be €1500 down because the drive a nice S2 or Cab......[][]

End of Rant.......

 

[PJS917]

Rant entirely justified, The green party really are trying to turn you into the emerald isle!!!

 

[RC18B 911 turbo]

That really is shocking why can't they be a bit more reasonable, who cares about green things it's already to late to save the planet.Which doesn't need saving anyway as it has heated up like this before and it sorted itself out anyway. So really we should be preparing ourselves for what's going to happen in the future and not punishing people for having a car which I'm fairly sure isn't as polluting or as bad for the environment as people may think.

 

[Neil Haughey]

I often feel that greens are by and large little more then communists in disguise. A car with a big engine is obviously an evil capitalist thing whereas the thousands of dirty old tractors in Ireland are good wee workhorses of the masses (assuming Ireland is still full of 20yr old beat up tractors like it used to be).

 

[Guest]

Still dirty wee grey mares spewing out sulphur and leaking diesel about here Neil []

Which pollutes more an S2 or Turbo that you use maybe the odd Sunday or a 7year old Nissan Micra that you use everyday stuck in traffic for 3 hrs......? [&:]

The tax bands from July for new cars will be in 7 stages from A-G .. G being the most polluting will attract tax of €2000.... Cars produced before July 08 will stick with the old system as far as I am aware. Of course all the Ministers Mercedes are exempt from tax []

My runabout Focus van is still €253 commercial tax for now.... Brian Cowen probably forgot so dont tell him []

If these draconian measures were introduced in the UK there would be a revolt .. We are too soft in this country []

 

[kevinshally]

I have only finally picked myself up from the floor after hearing that I'll be paying an extra 11% next year.
I have written to the TDs involved but got nothing back.
I have a yearly train ticket (costing around 900 euro) so that I dont' have to bring a car into the city and I'm not one fo the people clogging up the roads each day. for this reason I was hoping they would do a carrot/stick approach so that I could take the cost of the yearly train ticket off the car tax, but of course this was never going to happen.
Personally, I'm mr green when it comes to the planet etc, but if the government are just going to start taking more money off me than my neighbours in 1.4 litre cars but doing 24k miles a year clogging up the city then I might go back to the old days and dump everything in 1 bin.
Rage!
Kev

 

[Guest]

I'm with you Kevin... Dump everything in the one bin ....Better than that get a 40gal metal drum - cut the top off and burn all your waste plastic and cardboard in it........ []

Honestly this Green thing is doing diddly squat for the envoirnment - its just another way of getting your hard earned cash into the government coffers......Now that the housing boom has slowed the numptys at the top need to recoup their losses by taking money off the motorist again.... []

If I could I would use public transport , but there is no public transport system in Donegal so we all HAVE to drive...!

The whole system is a joke in this country... The clowns are running the circus [:'(]