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VED (Road Tax) - Retrospective application back to 2001
Disco Matt:
It says very clearly in that direct.gov link that pre-2001 vehicles won't be hit by the changes. We just have to pay £185 a year to use roads that are worse than some greenlanes I've driven...
V8MoneyPit:
On an associated subject, there was a report on the Beeb this morning about the government trying to get councils to coordinate roadworks better. They want all the utilities to work together so only one hole is dug instead of the same hole three times in as many months..... err, excuse me, but why has it taken this long to suggest this? It ain't rocket science and it should have been sorted decades ago :roll:
It seems that each time a road is dug up it reduces the life of the surface by a third. On that basis, it has to be totally replaced after the electricity board, then the water board and then ntl or someone comes along with fibre optics(!). Each digging up the same bit of road.
What the hell are we paying all this 'road fund licence' (I use the term loosely!) for? If they got their act together, the licence could probably halve in price.
redhand:
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--- Quote from: redhand on March 15, 2008, 13:25:02 ---The BBC?? oh yes that bastion of honest and unbiased reporting. Saviors of the truth and all that.
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:huh: but the grab you posted is the same as the link I posted. :huh:
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That's from the treasuries own website taken from the budget. pdf not the Beeb link you posted. I never click on links to BBC reports cause most of the time they bear no relation to the truth of the situation
Range Rover Blues:
Unfortuantely it stopped being road fung licence a long time ago. IIRC it was Churchill who did it (not one of his baest moves) as the country was bankrupt after WWII and they needed the money.
I guess if he hadn't then someone else would have by now, we pay far more in road tax than gets spent on tarmac.
I wonder what the SMMT think about the new road tax, especailly on new vehicles, it stinks of car tax agin which they lobbied to have removed.
Not that I'd buy a new car if I could avoid it.
crusader:
--- Quote from: V8MoneyPit on March 15, 2008, 15:59:46 ---On an associated subject, there was a report on the Beeb this morning about the government trying to get councils to coordinate roadworks better. They want all the utilities to work together so only one hole is dug instead of the same hole three times in as many months...
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If i can Recall? Did'nt a previous government try this or somthing simular quite a few years Back? in the late 80's early 90's I think? :shock:
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