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Road taxon the Mhi
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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?
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Still think it should be on fuel - say 10p/litre?
Would mean you couldn't 'forget to pay' as you'd need to fill up regularly, and everyone pays based on their mileage, driving style and car's fuel efficiency.
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It would also mean there'd be no need to keep changing tax bands, initial purchase tax, etc.
One thing I don't get about these VED/emissions changes, is that they were all supposed to be non-retrospective. So you buy a car before the new rules come into force and you get away with it. BUT, in the case of our cars they applied the raises to cars that had already been on the road for a few years and had an arbitrary cut-off that meant identical cars had different VED rates!
Would mean you couldn't 'forget to pay' as you'd need to fill up regularly, and everyone pays based on their mileage, driving style and car's fuel efficiency.
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- an 8 litre Cobra doing 200 miles a year would - sensibly - pay less 'road tax' than a 0.7 litre Daihatsu doing 10,000 miles a year
- a 1912 Delahaye used for long touring trips/meets/festivals would pay more than a 1,000 mile a year garage queen
It would also mean there'd be no need to keep changing tax bands, initial purchase tax, etc.
One thing I don't get about these VED/emissions changes, is that they were all supposed to be non-retrospective. So you buy a car before the new rules come into force and you get away with it. BUT, in the case of our cars they applied the raises to cars that had already been on the road for a few years and had an arbitrary cut-off that meant identical cars had different VED rates!
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Also check out the Extra bit if the car is over 40k at list.
An extra £340 for the first five years ! Over and above the normal tax rate, which is why I pushed to get my new merc just before all of this came In.
The normal rate was £30 a year before April 1st, it was going up to £140 after April 1st but because list price was nearly 45k they add an extra £340 per year for the first 5 years
An extra £340 for the first five years ! Over and above the normal tax rate, which is why I pushed to get my new merc just before all of this came In.
The normal rate was £30 a year before April 1st, it was going up to £140 after April 1st but because list price was nearly 45k they add an extra £340 per year for the first 5 years
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Thing is mm5 , is that we are already paying massive tax on the fuel and a gas gazzling M or similar is burning more and thus paying more ,so the actual ved should be fixed accross all vehicles , the co2 thing is a con as unleaded fuel which is all that is available is supposed to be green anyway, combined with power sapping catalytic converters , its supposedly only water emitted from the tailpipe! Now its suddenly diesels that are the devils spawn, they seem to make it up as they go along , watching the host of dinosaur documentaries aired recently, co2 was i think 400 times what it is now several times during the millions of years they were on the planet, between cycles of ice ages and tropical global warming and climate change, cant see a few hundred M's pottering around on the few dry weekends every year are going to have much impact
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That sounds a right con boris, how do they justify that, if it was originally only 30 quid it is obviouslt a pretty low polluting vehicle , so why load it an extra 340 for five years, i have always said its nothing to do with the environment, just revenue raising, they have already had extra vat and corporation tax as an element of its new price, of 40k
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That sounds a right con boris, how do they justify that, if it was originally only 30 quid it is obviouslt a pretty low polluting vehicle , so why load it an extra 340 for five years, i have always said its nothing to do with the environment, just revenue raising, they have already had extra vat and corporation tax as an element of its new price, of 40k
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had m mot'd today, only did 900 miles last year, for 500quid tax! aprox 20 , 45 mile outings at roughly £20 road tax a trip, add 20 quids worth of v max , insurance, and servicing, you can run a small plane for less money
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Well you know the answer to that - go out and use it more!
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Or SORN it for the massive bulk of the year that it's just an expensive ornament in your garage...
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I appreciate you like to keep the M for when you want to enjoy it but 900 miles sell it and rent something even more special for a couple of weeks,plus you will have more garage space for cleaning productsmad4slalom wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:22 pm had m mot'd today, only did 900 miles last year, for 500quid tax! aprox 20 , 45 mile outings at roughly £20 road tax a trip, add 20 quids worth of v max , insurance, and servicing, you can run a small plane for less money
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Also, IMO all the electric vehicles need to pay a large road tax....electricity doesn't magic it's way into those batteries. The overall environmental impact a Japanese Prius makes to the planet far outweighs a German Z4...
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Ye sorry 900 miles, don't see the point in the slightest.
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By the end of next week I'll have done 900 miles this month
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