The Budget - Road Tax
- Thread starter nemc
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Nope.
248gms so it's just under I understand...
£165 per year.
248gms so it's just under I understand...
£165 per year.
thboxster
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Not so sure;
7.75
To strengthen environmental incentives, the Government announces further reforms to VED:
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a new higher band of graduated VED (band G), set at £210 for petrol cars, will
be introduced for the most polluting new cars (those above 225g of carbon
dioxide emissions per kilometre)
It only applies to new purchases, AFAIK. The higher band is really only to cancel out the losses that he would've been making by the tax decreases at the other end of the scale. Anyway, it's not going to stop anyone from buying a Boxster or worse at the moment. It would have to be something like a £500 a year to make your average person think twice.
In fairness, at this stage we should be paying more to drive more polluting vehicles, but hopefully they'll see sense when they decide to try and really implement some serious taxes to make us think twice, and base it on mileage, which is the only fair way, IMO. I own two cars - a 3.0d and a 2.7, but based on my yearly combined mileage of less than 5000 miles, I pollute no more than your average medium car, probably less in fact.
In fairness, at this stage we should be paying more to drive more polluting vehicles, but hopefully they'll see sense when they decide to try and really implement some serious taxes to make us think twice, and base it on mileage, which is the only fair way, IMO. I own two cars - a 3.0d and a 2.7, but based on my yearly combined mileage of less than 5000 miles, I pollute no more than your average medium car, probably less in fact.
thboxster
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So new Boxsters will pay 210. Those of us who have a car that was registered between 2001 and today will have this item applied: (we're band F - over 185g)
VED rates will also be reduced for band B by £35 and C by £5, frozen for bands D and E, and increased by £25 for band F;
thboxster
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I assume it's the definitive figure because of where it is.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/20F/1D/bud06_ch7_161.pdf
Page 167
This is marvelous isn't it?
I looked up my own car last night using this tool:
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/ved/vedDetails.asp
It told me 248gms - and £165 per year.
However this page (which has a link to the above calculator) shows it as £190. [8|]
Confused? Why not? The DVLA seem to be...[&:]
I looked up my own car last night using this tool:
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/ved/vedDetails.asp
It told me 248gms - and £165 per year.
However this page (which has a link to the above calculator) shows it as £190. [8|]
Confused? Why not? The DVLA seem to be...[&:]
thboxster
New member
And i've also just noticed that diesel car drivers pay more road tax than petrol car drivers.
CO2/g D P
Band C 121 - 150 110.00 100.00
Band D 151 - 165 135.00 125.00
Band E 166 - 185 160.00 150.00
Band F Over 185 195.00 190.00
Vehicles registered on or after 23rd March 2006
Band G Over 225 215.00 210.00
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/taxation.htm#Private
CO2/g D P
Band C 121 - 150 110.00 100.00
Band D 151 - 165 135.00 125.00
Band E 166 - 185 160.00 150.00
Band F Over 185 195.00 190.00
Vehicles registered on or after 23rd March 2006
Band G Over 225 215.00 210.00
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/taxation.htm#Private
Just been to the Post Office to renew my RFL for next month. The reminder I received said the fee would be £170 for 12 months - today I was duly charged £175. ..................I was told that I could have saved £5 if I had come in yesterday [>:] !!!!! Unfair? (Now I know why the queue in the PO yesterday was so long [8|].)
On a separate point, will a £30-50 per annum increase on RFL really lead (many) people to change the car they buy? Will they reduce the CO4[/size]5 or other potentially polutant emmissions as a result? Doubt it - so this is just an excuse to raise Revenues using "green" arguements.
On a separate point, will a £30-50 per annum increase on RFL really lead (many) people to change the car they buy? Will they reduce the CO4[/size]5 or other potentially polutant emmissions as a result? Doubt it - so this is just an excuse to raise Revenues using "green" arguements.
Guest
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So once again the motorist gets it in the neck cos we are a soft touch.
How come no one takes into account the fact the planet constantly varies in temparature and that we are still in tha last stages of a retreating ice age.
Face it folks the world is getting warmer and theres nothing we can do about it.
I say slap on some sunscreen and be happy we can get the hood down more often [
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How come no one takes into account the fact the planet constantly varies in temparature and that we are still in tha last stages of a retreating ice age.
Face it folks the world is getting warmer and theres nothing we can do about it.
I say slap on some sunscreen and be happy we can get the hood down more often [
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penfold944
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You lucky sods.....
Road Tax in Ireland for a 3.0L + = 1375 euro p.a.
Insurance for 33yr old in Dublin with full bonus = 1800 euro p.a.
Leaving aside that my boxster cost a dell salesman 108,500 euro new in 2003.
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Road Tax in Ireland for a 3.0L + = 1375 euro p.a.
Insurance for 33yr old in Dublin with full bonus = 1800 euro p.a.
Leaving aside that my boxster cost a dell salesman 108,500 euro new in 2003.
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Oooops...that put's it into perspective!
Guest
New member
Exactly, the buggers have us by the short and curlies[
] I wonder if the car had never been inveted how much horse tax would be paying by now.
Would you get charged on the amount of manure it produces[
]If so then surely politicians should get charged huge amounts every time they speak.
In all seriousness road tax is a joke, its currently an extra pot of cash for the government to dip into for anything other than providing a decent road network. Why not abolish it and stick the cost on fuel that way you pay for what you use. Better yet why not stick the cost of car insurance on there as well that way you can instantly say goodbye to all the uninsured untaxed motors out there.
That's one of the reasons why I left that God forsaken place [
]It could be argued that this is an example of a vehicle tax that perhaps does convince people to drive smaller, more economical cars, you won't see very many Boxsters in Ireland for example. For the vast majority of people the cut-off at 2 litres is just about affordable, and the vast majority of cars on the roads are therefore less than 2.0. You could argue that we have that situation anyway over here without having to tax motorists to within an inch of their lives, so I'm not sure the Irish government have done anything other than fleece the motorist, plus they were stupid enough ot base it on engine size, which is not exactly going to be an accurate representation of environmental impact of a car. I think most motorists choose cars with economy high o their list of priorities, the cost of fuel makes this important for most of them. There's no real need for a car tax as such, just put a huge amount of the tax on fuel, oh wait, they already have. [
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thboxster
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I don't think overall the tax changes will cause people to switch to smaller less polluting vehicles. I think the general view will be of more annoyance than anything else. Of course there will be some who do take it as an incentive to become greener or maybe less brown/gray whatever the opposite of green is.
Ironically we're just considering switching from the meager, greenish Renault Clio, for a bigger more usable vehicle. The BMW 320d estate or a Volvo V50 2.0d, that sort of size.
Ironically we're just considering switching from the meager, greenish Renault Clio, for a bigger more usable vehicle. The BMW 320d estate or a Volvo V50 2.0d, that sort of size.
I think these small cars are only green when used as intended. I reckon if I could somehow load myself, my wife and my 3 young children, and all of our luggage into a 1.2litre car, we'd end up being a lot less economical and a lot more polluting, trying to get it to move under our weight. I would guess that putting that sort of load in a 2.0 car, especially a diesel, would be a lot more environmentally friendly than using a small car. Similarly, when I get passed on the motorway by a small engined car, bouncing along the road at close to maxiumum warp, I think that in that (common) situation, the difference in levels of pollution are not as great as people think when compared to my fully loaded 3.0d, cruising along at 70mph, still returning 45mpg.
The one i like is the fact that the zero bracket cars are not available in the uk. Nice one Gordon.
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