proposed tax

[0460richard]

after hearing about increased car tax by that bloke on the budget. you know the successor to that toby jug guy. anyone ideas on how much it will affect cobra owners. are they classed as gas guzzlers

[MarkT]

Provided that your car is registered as PLG (private light goods) it will not be affected much. If registered prior to March 2001 you will pay £185 if registered after March 2001 then you will pay £180.
There are no emission tables published for our sort of vehicles so, as yet, we escape !
I am not sure if this holds true if your vehicle is registered as new, mine is on an age related plate but the V5 still shows the date of registration to be 2002.

Brgds

MarkT

[Impulsebooks]

Originally Posted by MarkT

Provided that your car is registered as PLG (private light goods) it will not be affected much. If registered prior to March 2001 you will pay £185 if registered after March 2001 then you will pay £180.
There are no emission tables published for our sort of vehicles so, as yet, we escape !
I am not sure if this holds true if your vehicle is registered as new, mine is on an age related plate but the V5 still shows the date of registration to be 2002.

Brgds

MarkT

I pay £220 already for my flipping tintop (2.0ltr Focus)

[Iain]

I sold my gas guzzling 1998 2.5 V6 Cougar in favour of a more environmentally friendly 2001 1.8 Focus. Instead of paying £180 tax I got a £10 reduction to £170.

What do I get in return for being so considerate now the budget has come and gone? In 2009 I will be paying £260 car tax for the 1.8 Focus instead of the £195 for the 2.5 V6 Cougar!


Go figure!

[dingocooke]

Mr Darling is only following Gordons instructions...its just theft; RFL is massively underspent anyway, its just another way of propping up the economy; but we all knew that.

[KevinW]

Originally Posted by dingocooke

RFL is massively underspent anyway

- care to elaborate, old boy?!

[Wilburn]

Originally Posted by Iain

I sold my gas guzzling 1998 2.5 V6 Cougar in favour of a more environmentally friendly 2001 1.8 Focus. Instead of paying £180 tax I got a £10 reduction to £170.

What do I get in return for being so considerate now the budget has come and gone? In 2009 I will be paying £260 car tax for the 1.8 Focus instead of the £195 for the 2.5 V6 Cougar!


Go figure!

If it was a gas guzzler, then you are now saving money on improved mpg on having a 1.8 litre Focus.

[robert]

Originally Posted by Wilburn

If it was a gas guzzler, then you are now saving money on improved mpg on having a 1.8 litre Focus.

Interesting article in the Sunday Times InGear section this weekend, comparing the fuel use of a Prius and a BMW 520D driven from London to Geneva.

The BMW used less fuel, so hybrids are not necessarily the best.

[KevinW]

if I've got the right car, Prius is a combi-drive car, so aimed at city driving (lots of stop start) rather than motorway cruising? horses for courses?

dont understand the road tax pricing on the focus/cougar issue. is it a souped up focus?

[dingocooke]

Originally Posted by KevinW

- care to elaborate, old boy?!

Ill try!!

The RFL (road fund Licence as it was originally called) aka the tax disc, was introduced (pre hitler war) as 'a temporary measure to fund repairs and improvments to Britains roads'.

It evolved into a tax that just got raised at every budget, and the revenue from it has been massively underspent ever since (there are plenty of articles explaining the numbers on the web). Its now renamed 'vehicle excise duty' VED to get around the notion it should be spent on the roads.

Now I dont really mind being taxed, its a fact of life, but I do find being taxed for (and made a pariah because of) doing something when everyone knows its an excuse to get revenue for other things offensive, and disingenuous at best.

The latest VED rises wont affect me directly but I still think its wrong that soem vehicles pay more than others, IMHO its another case of British inverted snobbery; 'tax those rich folks in the range rover; they can afford it and to hell with being fair.'
Fact is were all paying tax based on vehicle use; the more fuel you use the more tax we pay; so range rover man and woman are paying more already. Raising VED year on year above the rate of inflation is just an excuse to ream us even more in the name of global warming.


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