DarrenW
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:08 PM |
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New Road Tax
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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Mole
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:12 PM |
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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.
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blakep82
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:16 PM |
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i thought it was just on cars newer than 2001, and older cars would stay on the same rates
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Mr G
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:19 PM |
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quote:
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?
Stick... Wrong... End.... Of.... 
quote:
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.
[Edited on 1/5/08 by Mr G]
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:20 PM |
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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.
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yorkshire-engines
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:38 PM |
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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
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DarrenW
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:44 PM |
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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.
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nick205
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| posted on 1/5/08 at 10:52 PM |
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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.
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designer
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| posted on 2/5/08 at 06:06 AM |
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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.
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02GF74
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| posted on 2/5/08 at 06:57 AM |
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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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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 2/5/08 at 08:39 AM |
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quote:
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 oil companies profits in the main dont come from petrol - the profit to them is about 1.5p per litre. Most of their profits come from the dozens
of other chemicals produced from crude oil. The government obviously make the most profit but after that its the retailers that make the most profit
on a litre of fuel. The majority of petrol stations are franchises (i worked briefly between "proper" jobs at a Shell branded franchise
which was the biggest earner in Nottingham, and its them that sets the price at the pumps so really its no good blaming the oil companies.
The government obviously likes to draw attention to the oil companies profits, but when the government make about 70p / litre and the oil companies
about 1.5p / litre (and then have to pay Corporation tax on their profits) then its very clear to me who is profiteering
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jabbahutt
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| posted on 2/5/08 at 09:20 AM |
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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
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martinq357
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| posted on 2/5/08 at 10:36 AM |
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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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nick205
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| posted on 4/5/08 at 08:52 PM |
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quote:
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.
now that's a more informative post
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JoelP
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| posted on 4/5/08 at 10:02 PM |
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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?
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