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3CorsaMeal

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8th Jul 15 at 14:53

Noticed it says only cars that produce 0 carbon will be free tax, does that mean a lot of cars that cost £20-30 at the moment will get charged at the £140 rate.

Do many cars produce no carbon at all?

Ben G

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8th Jul 15 at 14:55

This will get very interesting

Loads of people have bought 99 g/km cars due to the tax exemption. There'll be protest at Westminster and effegies burned at the stake.

--ToM--

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8th Jul 15 at 15:11

Doesn't arse me my tax is extortionate anyway, should all be free imo unless they want to give us a £2000 yearly allowance for car repairs due to shit roads

pow

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8th Jul 15 at 15:13

Of course that was going to happen, how many cars are 99g/km just to avoid car tax and how many of them are flying off the shelf?!

Rob E

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8th Jul 15 at 15:15

It only applies to cars manufactured after 1st April 2017. Any cars built before that date will be taxed under current legislation

[Edited on 08-07-2015 by Rob E]

Corsa_Sport21

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8th Jul 15 at 15:15

Kills me having to pay £154 to tax my 1.3 for 6mth.

DaveyLC

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8th Jul 15 at 15:27

Insurance Premium tax is going up to..

pow

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8th Jul 15 at 15:29

What is it currently? Glad my renewal is August!

Nic Barnes

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8th Jul 15 at 15:53

the laws for tax on cyclists has gone down which is good.

Kyle T

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8th Jul 15 at 16:21

I possibly dreamt this, but I could have swore that the tax exempt cars were all bracketted that way with the proviso that it wouldn't be permenant, it was just an incentive to get some of the old guzzlers off the road or something.

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Baskey

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8th Jul 15 at 17:04

Good , about time they taxed the shit cars more

big eck

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8th Jul 15 at 17:28

I pay £30 a year for the fiesta. Thank fuck it's not changing, that was one of the reasons I bought it lol.

Ben G

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8th Jul 15 at 17:33

So there will now be 4 bands as such? E.g. Cars before 2001, cars before 2006, cars before 2017 and cars after 2017?

That'll confuse the hell out of a lot of people

Much easier to scrap it and tax the fuel.

Y869 SRA

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8th Jul 15 at 17:36

quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Kills me having to pay £154 to tax my 1.3 for 6mth.

I pay that for 6 months for my 1.8L 20v Turbo!

Ben G

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8th Jul 15 at 17:55

quote:
Originally posted by Y869 SRA

quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Kills me having to pay £154 to tax my 1.3 for 6mth.

I pay that for 6 months for my 1.8L 20v Turbo!

I pay that for 6 months for my 3.0 straight six.

Are we willy waving?

Corsa_Sport21

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8th Jul 15 at 17:59

I fuckin hope not or it's no looking good for me.

Pop

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8th Jul 15 at 18:48

quote:
Originally posted by pow
What is it currently? Glad my renewal is August!

It's going up from 6% to 9.5%

Y869 SRA

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8th Jul 15 at 20:24

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G

quote:
Originally posted by Y869 SRA

quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Kills me having to pay £154 to tax my 1.3 for 6mth.

I pay that for 6 months for my 1.8L 20v Turbo!

I pay that for 6 months for my 3.0 straight six.

Are we willy waving?

No, I'm just surprised its the same rate for a 1.3L.

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8th Jul 15 at 20:45

Then £0 rate for 99g/km was only to incentivise people to buy them. You'd be a fool to think it would last forever; EVs will eventually taxed and you'll have to pay to charge them up and park them as the uptake increases.

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8th Jul 15 at 20:47

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
This will get very interesting

Loads of people have bought 99 g/km cars due to the tax exemption. There'll be protest at Westminster and effegies burned at the stake.

Only counts for vehicles registered after April 2017, so we'll be just fine

AndyCorsaSport

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8th Jul 15 at 20:58

quote:
Originally posted by Y869 SRA

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G

quote:
Originally posted by Y869 SRA

quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Kills me having to pay £154 to tax my 1.3 for 6mth.

I pay that for 6 months for my 1.8L 20v Turbo!

I pay that for 6 months for my 3.0 straight six.

Are we willy waving?

No, I'm just surprised its the same rate for a 1.3L.

It's all bullshit. When I had a 1.6 106 GTi. It was the same price to tax as a 5.0 BMW M5!

baza31

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8th Jul 15 at 22:57

I just forked out £500 for road tax. Also £280 for the van. I think it takes the piss how a 1.3cdti van costs the same as a 3ltr long wheel base van.

Ian

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9th Jul 15 at 01:01

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
So there will now be 4 bands as such? E.g. Cars before 2001, cars before 2006, cars before 2017 and cars after 2017?

That's a piss take really.

Ben G

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9th Jul 15 at 01:37

Is there any particular reason they don't scrap it and tax fuel more instead?

Apart from the obvious problem of it hurting long distance drivers?

Ian

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9th Jul 15 at 01:43

Last argument I had with someone on Facebook about it, he was claiming it would lead to far greater thefts of it. More difficult to steal road tax.

Needn't penalise anyone driving anything vaguely big, anything over 3500kg driven commercially needs to be separately licenced anyway, so they could be subsidised via that. With the added benefit that you'd incentivise sign-up to the O licence scheme. Which means heavy stuff is operated under stricter conditions which include more frequent checks.

Ditto coaches, buses, any PSV really. They're all listed so they can also be given dispensation.

Bit of a win-win that for me.

Can't say the same for anyone in a 3 series GT bombing up and down the M1 with a boot full of carpet samples. They're probably doing OK under the current regime.

[Edited on 09-07-2015 by Ian]

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