Has anybody else seen the change on your tax renual notice from DVLA that instead of engine size it now is emission rating of car.

I sniff an awful sniff of road tax based around emissions coming our way.

Can you imagine what we could end up paying to tax our scoobs?

To top that, with congestion charging in all major cities and we could be the most expensive country in the world for running cars in.

It's the slippery slopes i think for all of us.

Another reason to put on to the "WHY I HATE THIS COUNTRY" list.

In my understanding it just means we carry on paying the same and people with cars that won't choke up the atmosphere so much get a bit of a discount - sounds fair enough to me. Considering you pay nearly as much for a TV license and about 10 times as much in council tax and get fook all for it, I don't begrudge the road tax too much :)

It seems that the government will try anything/spend millions finding ways to get every penny they can out of us.
I think it was on a tv program that road tax generates around £30,000,000,000 per year but only £6,000,000,000 is put back into transport/road users etc.. which adds to all the other reasons but i do understand what is being said though.

I thought we were already?

i thought scoobs were good on emissions... :D

Our car road tax is based on emissions, I pay €145 PA for my MY00 Scoob. don't know what that is in pounds.

I don't know about sniffing out road tax based on emissions, because that's what's already in place, and has been since March 2001.

The amount of road tax varies on the emissions of the vehicle and the fuel they use. I can't be bothered to type out the table as it will available on the DVLA website for those curious to see the actual charges, but for a petrol its charged in four bands from £100 - £155pa, and for diesels £110-160pa. There are also seperate scale charges for alternative fuel vehicles. Vehicles first used on the road before March 2001 pay the flat rate of £160pa, or if they are under 1500cc £100pa.

Now bearing the above in mind, the government will actually raise less from road tax than they would using the old flat rate for every vehicle regardless of engine size or emissions.

[Edited by Reffro - 2/20/2003 9:30:38 AM]

nothing has changed with road tax, cars made before y reg(2000??) are subject to emissions, cars that are registered before that, are still £57.75 for 6 months under 1600cc, £105 for 12 months under 1600cc and £88 for 6 months for over 1600cc, £160 for 12 months for over 1600cc and still classed as PLG(private light goods)

vehicles which are registered after y reg are classed as there fuel type

mike

Mr M

I agree that the Government look on law abiding brits as a "tax cow" but once went to Singapore and seem to remember talking to someone who had to buy a licence to buy a car, £13 grand seems to spring to mind !!! OUCH !!

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