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Tony F:
Has anyone else who runs a vehicle registered between 1st March 2001 and 22nd March 2006 realised what happened in the budget?

OK we all knew that vehicles emitting more than 225 g/km of CO2 registered after 23/03/06 are in Band G and are now paying £300 for Road Tax (and were due to pay £400 from next year). But the same vehicles built before that date but after 1/3/03 will stay in Band F, currently £220 a year.

Sadly that all changed in the budget, new bands come in from next April that are retrospectively applied to ALL vehicles registered after 01/03/03.

Over 225g/km (but under 255) will be in the new band K at £415 a year from April 2009 and £430 from April 2010

Over 255g/km (Like my Disco) will be in new Band L at £440 a year from April 2009 , from 2010 it will be £455 

I'm particularly annoyed as my TD5 was registered on 29/03/03   :x

Yep that's an extra £220 for 29 poxy days!  :angry:

The full story is here:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/Budget2008/DG_073093

There is an epetition against this, on previous experience it is not likely to do much but worth registering your protest!

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/UNFAIR-VED/

Rich_P:
http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php/topic,57394.0.html

scotifreelander:
from my thread on road tax

has any one seen this ?????

got a freelander '02 plate pay £115 6 mnths march next year £165 for the same your cheaper to tax a Land Rover Range Rover on a (94-02)
4.6 Linley 4d Auto on a this year
1 Mar 2000 – 1 Mar 2001
£101.75
and the following year
1 Mar 2000 – 1 Mar 2001
£101.75

the rates for the dsco are just as weird thats for a 2.5 Td5 ES 7 seat

1 Nov 1998 – 1 Mar 2001£101.75£185.001 Mar 2001 – 1 Nov 2003£115.50£210.00
the following year

1 Nov 1998 – 1 Mar 2001£101.75£185.001 Mar 2001 – 1 Nov 2003£242.00£440.00

The increase is a discrace for some of the landrovers in the range !!

Range Rover Blues:
Road tax is a disgrace, end of story.

For anyone who voted for this lying caniving bunch of bartenders, hang your head in shame :evil:

Wireless:
I didn't vote, there's currently no legal requirement to do so.

I don't pay Road Tax, but I am looking at how this will change second-hand pricing, since older Disco's like mine may hold their prices a little, and the price of 2003 4.4 Range Rovers should plummet.

The Disco is still ok (touch wood), although the auto box does tend to kickdown too early for my liking on LPG when towing and using cruise control, anyone know whether it's worth upgrading to fuel injected LPG rather than the venturi system I have at present?  Power/torque seems much lower on LPG, and you can definitely tell the auto gearbox ratios were chosen for V8 fuel injection, towing on unleaded is so much better.

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