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2006 Budget Ouch for RS owners!
- Thread starter Daz Clio Cup
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£50 road tax on my DCi80! Back of the net!
I really don't know why they don't put road tax on top of fuel duty, it would be so much fairer, pay for what you use, no admin costs for collecting it, and the more efficient your car is the less you pay.
I really don't know why they don't put road tax on top of fuel duty, it would be so much fairer, pay for what you use, no admin costs for collecting it, and the more efficient your car is the less you pay.
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Jim NM
It's the same with thr renault 5GTT they have no cat as you will know, 1.4L Turbo charged engine which produces more carbon (not sure of figures) early ones designed to use 4 star and only £110 R/Tax per annum. The government really haven't looked at this in depth. Plonkers !!!
Clio 172 mk2
I don't se the f**king logic in the taxing system..surely it should be done on petrol or how much you actually use the roads.
I drive my 172 once, twice a week and cycle to work so how come if it's all about the environment I pay the same in tax as someone in a guzzler commuting to work everyday polluting the atmosphere far, far more.
Complete nonsense
I drive my 172 once, twice a week and cycle to work so how come if it's all about the environment I pay the same in tax as someone in a guzzler commuting to work everyday polluting the atmosphere far, far more.
Complete nonsense
The Jinx
You don't pay the same tax. If they use more fuel, which they will if they do more miles, then they pay more tax.
Probably quite a lot more at 60p/l as well.
Probably quite a lot more at 60p/l as well.
Ford Fiesta ST2
So cars registered before 1/3/2001 the taxes stay the same? The DVLA website doesn't make it very clear.
Also is it calculated by the V5 only, as I know for a fact my emissions aren't great with the new exhaust and stuff?
Cheers
Alex
Also is it calculated by the V5 only, as I know for a fact my emissions aren't great with the new exhaust and stuff?
Cheers
Alex
Its stupid, my boss who owns a Jag XKR 4.0 Supercharge only pays £175 with the new tax system. I on the other had own a Clio 2.0 182 and now get charged £190. Wheres the common sense in that, the Jag pushes a hell of alot more emisson out compared to my newer Clio.
All this cr*p that Blair and Brown come out with, regards the fact that they want car manufactures to make more enviromentally friendly cars, in return they will give cheaper tax, its not the new cars destroying the earth try upping the tax on the old cars which push out more emission.
Oh i forgot it must be the fact that Brown and Blair belive that just because i have the money to buy a new car, it means i have the extra cash to cover the costs of the old sh*t boxes on the road which pollute the atmosphere more than the new cars.
We live in a very unfair country, where the people who look like they have money get stung. I find it difficult at the moment to run the car, what with Petrol prices been high. An extra £25 on road tax is a bit of an ar*e ache. IF the roads reflected what we all pay in road tax, ie more like are European counterparts, I may not have as much of a problem, but until the day that i can drive to work without having to dodge pot holes, I still have a problem.
GRUMBLE OVER
106 GTi
SteveC047 said:
My thoughts excatly, pre cat 1992 - non cat, running carbs or bodies is the way forward then! Plus it will be 15 quid cheaper
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The Jinx
All this talk of it not being fair that older cars are taxed differently: dry your eyes.
They have to draw a line somewhere otherwise you could argue that everyone has to have their emissions tested whenever they make mods to their engines as well.
That would be an admin nightmare.
They have to draw a line somewhere otherwise you could argue that everyone has to have their emissions tested whenever they make mods to their engines as well.
That would be an admin nightmare.
The Jinx
Too right. I'm going to check my emmissions test data from the MOT tonight and be a smug git.:evil:
I know the other halfs Xsara VTS is listed at 215g/km but it's pre-2001 as well.
I know the other halfs Xsara VTS is listed at 215g/km but it's pre-2001 as well.
Thats not the point Yorkie.
The point is how can you say its fair when one person drives a 4.0 supercharged Jag and pays £175 (£5 increase) and another drives a 55 plate 2.0 16 Clio and pays £190.
£25 is not that much when you break it down to how much you pay a day, but its the way they have dished out the price increases that is unfair.
The point is how can you say its fair when one person drives a 4.0 supercharged Jag and pays £175 (£5 increase) and another drives a 55 plate 2.0 16 Clio and pays £190.
£25 is not that much when you break it down to how much you pay a day, but its the way they have dished out the price increases that is unfair.
The Jinx
Read my above post. They cannot change the system to say all cars are based on emmissions. It would cost more than they'd make. Not only that but then all us old car drivers would then ask why they don't base all tax on each individual car hence mods leading to an increase.
Vote Conservative? Yeah - another Black Wednesday and high inflation / interest rates please. That'll put a minor car tax rise into perspective.
I'm glad to see Day's graph showing how motoring is relatively cheaper than at any time in modern memory. Sure, fuel and tax are always on the up - but everything else motoring-wise is going down.
I love interesting and stimulating cars, but am under no impression that I "deserve" or have "the right" to pay anything less than the full cost of my motoring. People quite rightly want to spend their money in the way they wish, but protesting (in effect) that motoring should be a stable cost - free of political and economic pressures - is just bananas. Enjoy motoring, but realise that personal mobility by way of anything but your own feet is not a right! You put yourself in the way of monetary bad luck by owning a car and you know it!
Let the quality of the debate here be more considered than simple one liners of self-interest - there's a lot more to a Budget, fiscal policy, world economics and personal mobility than "money grabbing".
I'm glad to see Day's graph showing how motoring is relatively cheaper than at any time in modern memory. Sure, fuel and tax are always on the up - but everything else motoring-wise is going down.
I love interesting and stimulating cars, but am under no impression that I "deserve" or have "the right" to pay anything less than the full cost of my motoring. People quite rightly want to spend their money in the way they wish, but protesting (in effect) that motoring should be a stable cost - free of political and economic pressures - is just bananas. Enjoy motoring, but realise that personal mobility by way of anything but your own feet is not a right! You put yourself in the way of monetary bad luck by owning a car and you know it!
Let the quality of the debate here be more considered than simple one liners of self-interest - there's a lot more to a Budget, fiscal policy, world economics and personal mobility than "money grabbing".
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