What year does the car tax increase on a Scooby from a relatively normal amount per 6 months or 12 months to a stupid amount per 6 or 12 months? Just wondering as if I get rid of my classic for a wrx/sti or sti just want to know what year car the tax band changes. Thanks

 

06 onwards goes up to over £400 a year, not sure of the exact amount!

 

from after 23/3/06 it is the higher tax band.

 

£475 this year ffs robbing *****

 

£490 now, just renewed mine and they wanted an extra £15 when I went to the Post Office

 

That is an absolutely ridiculous amount of money for a years tax.disgusting!

 

Agreed, for me Road Tax is the same price as the insurance?!

 

I think it's OK considering the exquisite quality of roads throughout the UK. Oh wait.......

 

Just checked on my WRX reg November 04
was £270 now up to £280

 

If you think about it. The new cars you hardly pay tax or any at all and were the one that have to pay for it. So my next car will be a newish one with hardly any tax to pay. My car is stood 5-6 days a week

 

Thanks for the reply guys, they have us all ways don't they, but as stated the roads are in perfect condition and our petrol prices are cheap as chips so they must make up their money somewhere so car tax it is then oh wait and petrol and the roads are **** lol.

 

on some new car it £1000 tax

 

Lucky you !

Didn't have a car for 2 years or so - lost 30-odd years of NCD.

Own a car, and everyone robs you.

 

Thats how they get you tho, its not ROAD tax, its VED emissions based. Which I feel is stupid because if you take 2 members off here, both with cars in the higher tax band, one drives 1000 miles a year as he works off shore and the other drives 10,000 miles a year as its his daily driver, both have to pay emissions based VED yet one driver produces 10x more emissions.

Personally I think vehicle tax should be scraped and a certain percentage put on fuel, that way the more you drive and emissions you create, the more you pay!? I know fuel is already high but having to pay upto £1000 a year extra just because of the car you choose is silly.

Take your average company rep who does 30k miles a year, he might drive a relatively low emission diesel Vectra so only pays £200 a year car tax but I bet he puts out more emissions than most people who have apparently high emission weekend cars.

 

Yes double road Tax for first year Max is £490 a year after then (until they put it up again!)

 

My mum pays 30 quid a year... they wount even sell here 6 months coz its so low. Such a **** take

 

a Scooby owner should not have to pay similar amount of tax as a distributor of narcotics, in his unfeasibly large 4x4 (donning an awful body kit and horrendous alloys)!

 

Im paying over 400 a year for my wrxs hatch but then itd only 200 a year to insure and thats 350 a year less than I was for my td4 freelander.
Now im not very clever but im sure that means im better off lol

 

I 100% agree with this. However maybe instead of adding tax to fuel, perhaps having pay as you go toll taxes on the roads, like most of Europe do

 

Problem with having toll roads instead is that everyone gets the same charge wether the have a 5mpg hummer or 60mpg diesel polo. The only realistic way they can base a tax on your vehicles emissions is to know what is coming out your exhaust and the general consensus is that the lower your emissions the lower your fuel consumption. Hence you are taxing people based on how much damage their vehicle is doing to the enviroment, not how much damage it could do or how many miles they do.

 

My M3 is 490 this year, P1 is 280 and the 944 is 230(i think ), but the wife's 116i is only 120ish

 

Ok is see you made a difference between road tax and emission tax. I suppose it depends on how much you give a toss about the environment. I don't particularly mind what i pay for, as long as it goes back into improving the road system.
I see your point though

 

Don't forget we have to cover the cost for all these POLISH cars on the road that pay **** all road tax!!

 

I'm in the higher bracket with my hawk. It sucks, but hey-oh, not much we can do about it!