KK3960

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Can anyone tell me what tax bracket and how much i can expect to pay for a V7 STi built and down on the log book as 1/1/2001 but imported this year 18/03/2008

Many thanks

bluerigster

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band G, 400 pounds a year.

KK3960

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Is this expected to rise in the forthcoming years?

bluerigster

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It's going up to 455 pounds by 2010. What the goverment have planned for us after that nobody knows.

bluerigster

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Even worse, new cars registered in 2010 in band G will pay 950 pounds first year followed by 455 pounds.
Road tax - Parker's

KK3960

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Thanks for the info Id better not buy it then, So looks like a late classic is the way forward. Im assuming its the year / date of import that effects these vehicles even if they are manufacturered pre the March 2001 threshold?

bluerigster

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Pre 1997 classics don't have a SVA emissons test so the goverment can't place them in any tax band without knowing there emissions output. So as things stand the road tax is 185 rising to 200 pounds in 2010. I'm sticking with my classic for sure.

KK3960

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Last question, so any pre 1997 classics fresh imported will be in the lower band, What about UK classics or early Bugs? i assume the lower rate then if they are registered pre march 2001?

LeeMac

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anything registered March 2001+ is in the CO² tax bands (£400), so I would say 170 (or what ever it is) as it is before 1st March

N_Scooby

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I'm sure I've heard it something like the 21st of March 2001 or so. I saw it on another thread where two identical bugs would pay different tax because they were registered either side of this date. I'm sure I will be corrected if wrong!! Or given dodgy info in other thread!

KK3960

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By the word "registered" on an import am i correct to say it will be the date its first UK registered as noted on the Log Book and not the year of manufacture, as the car im looking at is first "registered" as 18/03/08

TonyBurns

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JDM's registered in the UK before 01/03/06 wont have a CO2 band on, so you will have the 200 quid tax bracket for them, anything after unfortunately falls into the somewhat more expensive bracket.
Keep looking around, you may find a nice MY01/02 JDM STi wagon up for sale which meets this category

Tony

The Trooper 1815

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My old MY 04 Legacy GT Spec B registered as per in Sept 04, was imported in June 07 and will be £400 this year!

N_Scooby

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Maybe registered is the wrong word to use. I was looking at the fact his V5 date was 01/01/2001 which falls before the March 2001 cut-off point. I would imagine the SVA had it as a 2001 model and just wrote it down as the earliest date possible (loophole?) I'm not sure of all the facts in this new tax class system as I've got a classic! Just from bits and pieces I pick up of different threads.

Terminator X

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They'll come up with another way to tax the ar*e out of the older Scoobs. It's now a rich mans game although they may stick to their Porsches

TX.

Terminator X

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I checked this with the DVLA & it's a right scam The relevant date is registered in the UK rather than first registered wherever. So, my car was regd in Japan in Dec 2004 & then the UK in Jan 2007. Guess which band my cars falls in to?

TX.

T20Driver

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Incorrect. Mine is May 05 and has 325 on it.

GC8

Im not doubting what you have been told, but they are incorrect. Unfortunately as this gathers pace itll become harder and harder to stop.

The Trooper 1815

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No there not!

It's happened to me already, had a reminder for the 04 Legacy, reg'd here in June 07 VED £400 for renewal.

Luckily I have sold the car already, but it's still going to be £400 for the 04 STi Foggy I now have on renewal.

The Foggy was reg'd in the UK before 01/03/06 and also has the CO2 on it.

TonyBurns

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Well Gussy for one pays less than 200 quid per year, his car was new in the uk in 2006 (reg 1/1/06)
Its not the original date of manufacture or first registered outside the uk, its to do with the first date of registration in the uk.

Tony

GC8

Yes they are. In English law 'first registered' has long been used where 'manufactured' would be more appropriate. The presumption is that a car is manufactured and then promptly registered: from the point of registration the state takes an interest.

A situation has now arisen where vehicles may be 'first registered' ten, or even twenty years after they were manufactured, because they were used first in a foreign country. These vehicles are obviously beyond the scope of the legislation and due to their not ever having been type approved, there isnt any emissions date available (this has to be from a new vehicle; you cant test used vehicles). Obviously, without type approval emissions date, it isnt possible to state what a vehicles CO2 emissions are (the tests conducted for SVA testing and E-SVA testing and the original comparison reports arent good enough althought the E-IV tests are different).

In this circumstance it is plainly incorrect (and beyond the intention of the poorly worded legislation) to attempt to force the vehicles owners to pay a higher rate of VED. Unfortunately it has become more common for VRO clerks to interpret the legislation in this manner, ignoring the fact that the correct tests have not taken place.

Now, I think that its apparent I know what I am talking about: what makes you feel that I am wrong? Just because its happening doesnt mean that it should.

The Trooper 1815

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You answered your own question. It's happening, your opinion is valid and quite correct but opinion is not legislation or fact.

Sadly, still have to pay £400.

GC8

I give up.

The Trooper 1815

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So do I.