Whats this about owners of cars over 7 years old having to pay £450 or so road tax? Anyone else heard owt?
Won't surprise me. Goverment seem intent on pricing cars over a certain age off the road so we can all go out and buy greener ones. Seems they think manufacturers are growing new cars and the old ones just biodegrade.
i thought it was just on cars newer than 2001, and older cars would stay on the same rates
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Originally posted by DarrenW
Whats this about owners of cars over 7 years old having to pay £450 or so road tax? Anyone else heard owt?
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Tens of thousands of families will have to pay up to £245 extra a year under new road tax rules after a covert government decision to include cars up to seven years old.
The Treasury admitted to The Times last night that it was quietly abolishing the exemption for older cars from the highest rates of vehicle excise duty. This means that owners of larger cars bought since March 2001 will find that their road tax will rise steeply from next April.
The increases are being introduced in two stages, with many owners who are now paying £210 a year being charged £300 in 2009 and up to £455 in 2010.
Ive no idea what the details are and dont mean to scare monger. Just wondering if anyone has heard of it and has some credable knowledge.
This country is getting worse why dont we all just not pay any road tax
im sure the robbing mr brown cannot prosicute everyone and a show of disscontent like this would proberbly work
if no one taxed there vehicle for say 3 months
i have 3 road bikes and had a guy round the other week to ensure that they were in fact of the road
when i showed him a box of bits (72 mac111 H1F kawasaki triple) he agreed
also i have been out delivering today and paid £1.16 for diesel nr wakefield and £1.28 nr penrith why again when oil companies make
billions profit are we paying such vastly different and rip of prices
just my opinion
cheers
Your right Malc. No sense to it all. Maybe the anti smoking lobbies have been more successful than the government expected. Fighting Bush's wars
cant be cheap. All worthy causes that need to be paid for.
It really bugs me that i have to pay £200 to tax the Mac#1 on limited mileage insurance.
I've long favoured the idea of scrapping the current road tax system and paying it via the cost of fuel - pay as you go if you like.
Malc - I would love to see a mass demonstration of will take place, but we're just too dependant on road transport to make it realistic. The
feckers that call themselves government know this only too well and will continue to turn the screw as they see fit.
There is no road tax in France! The UK government never tell you that, do they?
OH, and insurance is cheaper and includes full breakdown cover.
bunch of thieveng shites for sure .... but think about it, another £ 200 per year is not going to make that huge a dent compared to overall
running costs - namely petrol - not so good if you do very few miles though.
Most folks won't have done the sums so the prices of these cars will drop - good if you are looking to buy one.
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Originally posted by yorkshire-enginesalso i have been out delivering today and paid £1.16 for diesel nr wakefield and £1.28 nr penrith why again when oil companies make billions profit are we paying such vastly different and rip of prices
just my opinion
cheers
the problem with a non payment of road tax is everyone is staggered so the point is diluted.
Council tax on the other hand, everyones bill starts at the same time and costs much more than car tax so if everyone refused to pay the government
would have to take notice as it would be impossible to bring everyone to task.
This could be used to bring all these other gripes to the fore and they'd have no choice but to listen.
Oh and am I the only one who has noticed that only petrol goes up in relation to oil prices but not paint, plastic, textiles etc. You don't see
B&Q putting the price up on a tin of paint daily do you and petrol is really a waste product.
Rant over, lets face it the government long ago stopped representing the people, so realistically they're traitors.
didn't they used to hang traitors from lamposts
Here's a link that might help with what you'll be paying over the next couple of years at least:
http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/
Hope that helps.
Martin.
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Originally posted by martinq357
Here's a link that might help with what you'll be paying over the next couple of years at least:
http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/
Hope that helps.
Martin.
gov seems to be totally out of touch with reality. Gordy saying he understand why people dont like labour at the min, apparently its due to economic crisis' and rising fuel costs? Thats the last thing on my list, at the top is ridiculous bureaucracy and appauling law and order. Does he really not see this?