a lot of flawed logic behind your opinion and not the governments.mad4slalom wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2017 1:36 pm Hi all, just a beef about the new ved bands since april, i see now if you buy a new range rover or similar you get hit with a showroom type tax for the first two years is it ? , then it reduces to £140.00, the small petrol or diesel cars that were either 30 quid or tax free are incresing to 140, ?, i always thought that bearing in mind you could theoretically do a 100k miles a year in one of those that they werunfairly cheap, whereas there will be no change for anything existing , so the m cars will still be 500 quid Every year, even though most are garage queens or hobby cars , mine for example does 2 to 3 k a year. Seems very unfair, surely it would be fair and sensible to be able to tax a hobby car for say 5k miles a year as we do with insurance to keep the premiums down, and a fairer ved system. Seems crazy too that you can run a historic v8 yank gas guzzler as a historic vehicle tax free too. The governments thinking on this is mad, why not have a small amount to tax a historic vehicle to at least cover the admin as you still have to apply for tax in the normal way, but just dont pay for it ! Thoughts anyone?
the tax first of all is for 5 years and it's an extra £340 on cars over the value of £40K. If you can afford to buy a brand new car worth over £40K then what is another £300 a year to you? nothing. so IMO it's a mute point. if you can afford to drop £60K on a car you can afford to drop an extra £300 for 5 years. after 5 years it drops to £140.
also the cars that were £20 were because they put out less emissions and were more efficient. the mileage you do is irrelevant as their is duty on the fuel anyway. so if you do 100,000 miles in a year you would be paying more in duty than a car that does 1000 miles a year. so it doesn't matter if one car was being taxed at £20 and another at £300. it makes zero difference in reality. it was a tax on cars that give out higher emissions and were less efficient so it worked in that way.
then you go on to talk about classic cars. first of all they need to be 40 years old. how many cars hit 40? very little maybe 1 in a million. again a mute point because after 40 years they would have paid there fair share and very little cars hit this age and would be IMO unfair to keep on taxing them after 40 years of tax.