Emergency Budget ... the death of the Impreza?
12 May 2010, 01:36 PM
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Emergency Budget ... the death of the Impreza?
I'm fully expecting road tax of the gas guzzlers to be hiked to massive levels .... will this be the final nail in the coffin?
VAT will be 20% hence lifting fuel even more ..... doomed, the performance car. RIP
VAT will be 20% hence lifting fuel even more ..... doomed, the performance car. RIP
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12 May 2010, 03:27 PM
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Lets be honest, the motorists are always the first to be raped by whatever government is in power. Sadly we're the easy target and always bend over and take it.
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12 May 2010, 07:54 PM
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I suggest a £10^(2+n) pregnancy tax, where n is the number of children....
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12 May 2010, 08:02 PM
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Yes, the Tories introduced the Fuel Tax Escalator .... NL wiped it out .... get ready for Tory Fuel Tax Part 2!! 
VAT will be 20% that's a done deal.
1% hike in NI for Employees - not the Tory Employers!
Get ready to be robbed!!!
VAT will be 20% that's a done deal.
1% hike in NI for Employees - not the Tory Employers!
Get ready to be robbed!!!
12 May 2010, 08:25 PM
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The easy way to do that is scrap road tax altogther and add it to fuel.....if you don't do any mileage, don't pay any tax........drive a million miles a year, pay loads of tax......no need to SORN a car, no way anyone can aviod it etc etc...simples really
12 May 2010, 08:27 PM
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Aren't the new government committed to a fuel duty stabiliser - ie. fuel duty will decrease when oil prices are high and increase when they are low(er), aiming to smooth out some of the spikes?
The was a good interview with Cameron in the motoring section of the Daily Torygraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...-motorist.html) which suggests he might not bleed motorists quite as dry as the last few governments have, but I'll believe it when I see it.
The was a good interview with Cameron in the motoring section of the Daily Torygraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...-motorist.html) which suggests he might not bleed motorists quite as dry as the last few governments have, but I'll believe it when I see it.
12 May 2010, 09:29 PM
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pslewis is for the most part wrong - the Tories definitely won't introduce massive road-tax hikes on cars that are already on the road now. Some form of increase on showroom models, maybe, but after the way they laid into Labour when they planned to do it for cars back to 2001, they'd never live it down if they went and did the exact same thing themselves.
13 May 2010, 12:02 AM
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pslewis is for the most part wrong - the Tories definitely won't introduce massive road-tax hikes on cars that are already on the road now. Some form of increase on showroom models, maybe, but after the way they laid into Labour when they planned to do it for cars back to 2001, they'd never live it down if they went and did the exact same thing themselves.
13 May 2010, 07:47 AM
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The Labour government allowed/instigated a 6% rise in Motorcycle Tax this year alone... Thats 6% more than most peoples pay rise I would imagine...
Nobody even noticed....
The fuel price is the Killer, The price of road tax in the budget of running an Impreza for a year is relatively little.
If we were that bothered about fuel price, we wouldnt own Imprezas...and the same conversation comes up weekly/daily...
We'll just sit back and enjoy the rogering as normal
Nobody even noticed....
The fuel price is the Killer, The price of road tax in the budget of running an Impreza for a year is relatively little.
If we were that bothered about fuel price, we wouldnt own Imprezas...and the same conversation comes up weekly/daily...
We'll just sit back and enjoy the rogering as normal
13 May 2010, 08:02 AM
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Toriews introduce fuel tax hiker
NULabia abolish it in 2000
Yet the biggest rises in fuel duty have been from 2ooo onwards...
hmmm, anyone else not willing to suffer the spin anymore?
NULabia abolish it in 2000
Yet the biggest rises in fuel duty have been from 2ooo onwards...
hmmm, anyone else not willing to suffer the spin anymore?
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