Road Tax. Thief.
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Road Tax. Thief.
Hi,
My 07/07 WRX STi Spec D is full cream road tax at £475 a year.
If my car was registered a year sooner, it would be £270 a year.
I obviously knew this before I bought the car, but jeez it's rediculous!!
To boot, I'm paying an extra £15 a year for just 2 g/km, pushing me from band L to band M.
Not the governments fault about that, but they are thiefs.
Increasing road taxes = more potholes. Simples.
My 07/07 WRX STi Spec D is full cream road tax at £475 a year.
If my car was registered a year sooner, it would be £270 a year.
I obviously knew this before I bought the car, but jeez it's rediculous!!
To boot, I'm paying an extra £15 a year for just 2 g/km, pushing me from band L to band M.
Not the governments fault about that, but they are thiefs.
Increasing road taxes = more potholes. Simples.
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scrap the tax, put it on fuel. Never understood how someone doing 2k a year pays £460 but another guy doing 20k a year pays £250 or so.
Anyways although i pay the higher £460 i wouldnt give it up, id rather pay it then be forced to live in a gutless cloud blowing machine
Anyways although i pay the higher £460 i wouldnt give it up, id rather pay it then be forced to live in a gutless cloud blowing machine
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Me too, but it's frustrating that an identical car registered 365 days earlier is getting on for half the price to tax!!
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I have a diesel too, a 54 plate Passat 1.9 TDi 130ps Highline, mapped to 170ps by AMD in Essex.
Can't part with it, just need to start using it as my daily again. When you shut the doors on it, it sounds just like a Golf lol
Can't part with it, just need to start using it as my daily again. When you shut the doors on it, it sounds just like a Golf lol
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My blobeye was one of the last made i just paid 261 for 6 months it was 470ish for 12, yet if the car was a tad newer it would of been a lot less, same car though.
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This is my point. How can they have a cut off point where some people somewhere would have had their car (Porsche, Audi or whatever)registered a day too late and pay nearly double?
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In all fairness we all know the tax status before we buy the car, did it put me off ? no, would i like it reduced , hell yes
But not a deal killer for me
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I looked into the tax and ins before I got it I thought don't bye it if I can not afford to run it , it is a Scooby they not cheap to run cheers pramas
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Lads ffs dont be complaining, over here we get bent over on the tax, 2ltr is 600e per year, 2.5 is 1000e per year and my favourite was an e46 m3 which weighed in at only 1600e per year... I beleive the new M3 IS 1900e per year.. You lucky fokrs
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VED's days are numbered because the greedy government are now losing too much money.
They bought out the zero rated class to promote their BS green targets. Trouble is like everything government they hugely under estimated the amount of zero rated cars that would be sold in the uk.
They cant make a U-turn and charge for tax as they agreed terms with the vehicle manufactures to invest in this green technology. All they can do now is look for another way to tax. The thing that scares me is nothing any government has ever changed in the past has ever actually save us money. May even up the playing field though.
They bought out the zero rated class to promote their BS green targets. Trouble is like everything government they hugely under estimated the amount of zero rated cars that would be sold in the uk.
They cant make a U-turn and charge for tax as they agreed terms with the vehicle manufactures to invest in this green technology. All they can do now is look for another way to tax. The thing that scares me is nothing any government has ever changed in the past has ever actually save us money. May even up the playing field though.
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But the car was a month newer than i thought it was
I take it off the road frequently and cash the road tax in, the new rates have focussed my mind, motorbike tax gets cashed in too. Normally i left them all taxed all year round. This way i have extra administration as does the DVLA. I dont think they thought this through.......
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I thought my Hawk was registered also on 1st March. Then i got the new tax demand, turned out the dealer had registered it on April 1st thus missing the cheaper tax by 7 days
But the car was a month newer than i thought it was
I take it off the road frequently and cash the road tax in, the new rates have focussed my mind, motorbike tax gets cashed in too. Normally i left them all taxed all year round. This way i have extra administration as does the DVLA. I don' think they thought this through.......
But the car was a month newer than i thought it was
I take it off the road frequently and cash the road tax in, the new rates have focussed my mind, motorbike tax gets cashed in too. Normally i left them all taxed all year round. This way i have extra administration as does the DVLA. I don' think they thought this through.......
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Registration dates are bollox imho as all 300 cars were manufactured at the same time. Some just sat around longer I know at least one spec D registered before 23rd March yet mine on the 25th costs more to tax in one year than both of my other classics put together. I can assure you they are far less green than my Spec D lol !
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VED's days are numbered because the greedy government are now losing too much money.
They bought out the zero rated class to promote their BS green targets. Trouble is like everything government they hugely under estimated the amount of zero rated cars that would be sold in the uk.
They cant make a U-turn and charge for tax as they agreed terms with the vehicle manufactures to invest in this green technology. All they can do now is look for another way to tax. The thing that scares me is nothing any government has ever changed in the past has ever actually save us money. May even up the playing field though.
They bought out the zero rated class to promote their BS green targets. Trouble is like everything government they hugely under estimated the amount of zero rated cars that would be sold in the uk.
They cant make a U-turn and charge for tax as they agreed terms with the vehicle manufactures to invest in this green technology. All they can do now is look for another way to tax. The thing that scares me is nothing any government has ever changed in the past has ever actually save us money. May even up the playing field though.
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