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Boggert:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1314519,00.html

So I guess most of us are totally screwed now by this out of control Government!

If its not Fuel its road tax, then road pricing... what next??

I'm a tad brassed off, and they think they have any chance of winning the next election... their barking mad!

hrh_dave:
The problem is that they got in last time with knowbody voting for them or rather knobody bothered to vote.....

So does this mean everything from 2001 onwards is being put into the new tax brackets or how far are they going back.....

Boggert:

--- Quote from: hrh_dave on April 30, 2008, 11:27:10 ---The problem is that they got in last time with knowbody voting for them or rather knobody bothered to vote.....

So does this mean everything from 2001 onwards is being put into the new tax brackets or how far are they going back.....

--- End quote ---

Yep if your 4x4 was reg after March 2001 you will pay £430 for your road tax!

datalas:

--- Quote from: Boggert on April 30, 2008, 11:45:28 ---
--- Quote from: hrh_dave on April 30, 2008, 11:27:10 ---The problem is that they got in last time with knowbody voting for them or rather knobody bothered to vote.....

So does this mean everything from 2001 onwards is being put into the new tax brackets or how far are they going back.....

--- End quote ---

Yep if your 4x4 was reg after March 2001 you will pay £430 for your road tax!

--- End quote ---

strictly speaking that's "If it was registered after March 2001 and emits more than 225g of co2 per km ...."

Not that it makes much difference, but some vehicles don't fall into that bracket, the Rav4, the Freelander and quite possibly some of the newer cars too..

However, the real "sting" is that it's guarenteed income, the plan that it will "force people to re-evaluate their car ownership" is laughable,  the cost over 10 years would be a grand difference of around £2000, which is not even remotely comparable to the cost of a new vehicle so the equation just comes out at "do I spend an extra £200 this year, or do I get a new car and spend an extra ten grand?" ... not a great deal of evaluation required on that one if you ask me.

Then again, it's both good and bad that the government have their current understanding of the situation,  bad in so much as road tax is going up like my bank managers' blood pressure,  but good in so much as they haven't determined that they could charge an extra grand a year and probably still not persuade people to replace their cars...

Besides, what is the environmental impact of scrapping several thousand cars ?

Jas278:
Not just 4x4 either ...........the anti s IE Mondeo man are also being shafted , serves them right .......the government have got away with doubling RFL....Well they had to get the lost revenue from tobacco  from somewhere....

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