£490 road tax, does it put you off?

[green-blood]

oh you poor babies

my smax diesel costs more than that to tax here on the emerald isle. €710 (£550)

[M4cruiser]

It depends on the car. If I bought a new / recent fancy 3-litre car for tens of thousands, then I wouldn't worry paying £500 a year extra.

But I recently viewed a 51 plate Daewoo Lanos auto for a friend, and just before she made the decision she checked the tax - it's £240 a year, or was it £280? As a proportion of the running costs it was ridiculous.

[elephantstone]

Divide the amount into the days of the year.. thats the way i look at it. If you can't afford the lump sum im pretty sure you will be able to pay monthly from next october (i think?)

[supersingle]

I stick to older performance cars to avoid the tax. That's ok at the moment but in the coming years it's going to get more difficult. I hope I don't get forced into some 1.0L economy stbox.

[andy-xr]

I snarled at the £225 I paid last month, there's no way I'd pay circa £500, it's half the value of the car!

[PartridgeWagon]

I used to own a car that was just 2g into the top tax bracket - that was annoying. I don't mind so much anymore now that my current car (with its V8) is way above the upper threshold. It's all relative I suppose, especially when my car tax is £150 a year more than my insurance.

[Jawaman]

I pay ten times what my wife pays - £20 for a diesel c3 vs £200 for my diesel mondeo.

I do under 5k a year, she does about 15k

Wonder which of us has the higher real world emissions then??

[rallycross]

swerni said:

2006 560 bhp ( no poxy turbo's) £220 a year

You just need to be a bit smarter

Sounds good what is it ?

[giblet]

rallycross said:

Sounds good what is it ?

This beast

[DKL]

Answer might be to buy Alpinas. I believe they aren't taxed as per their base BMWs. Something to do with which co is their "manufacturer".

[AGell]

No

[Steviebeee]

I'm a great believer in, if your going to pay the 'big tax', then get your fkin money's worth. Just bought a 5.0ltr Lexus IS-F. Guess what.... 475.00 yr to tax, I'm happy with that though as I feel like I'm getting my monies worth. Unlike my GT3 which does 5k per an which costs the same. CO2 related RFL is a piss take....

[Catatafish]

Drek said:

Catatafish said:

It's clear that the thread refers to that paper disk on the window. What it is called, by whom, what the cash is spent on, blah blah, doe not matter.

This is Pistonheads, not Pedantheads.

You have a lot to learn!

Can I interest Sir in an irony detector for christmas? just £999

[007 VXR]

£490 ayear for mine, but i can live with that, Its only £1.34 aday.
Anyway, as of next year you can pay by DD so that will make it easy

[rallycross]

giblet said:

This beast

love it that is superb!

[V88Dicky]

Well, the way I look at it, if things had stayed as they were, ie we all payed the same VED, then we'd be on around £280 per year by now anyway.

But as we all know, a previous government though it'd encourage people into smaller, more economical cars, if they introduced VED that rose inline with the amount of plant food gas that a vehicle produces.

In our household we have my wife's car at £490 pa (8k miles pa), my daily at £280 pa (10k miles pa) and my weekend / hobby car at £490 pa (2500 miles pa). The only relief is when I SORN the Monaro each winter and sell the tax back to the DVLA. In real terms this brings the outlay down below 300 quid in doing so.

[crostonian]

What annoys me the most is that there are 11 bands of duty from £0 to £280 with gradual increases across the range and then it takes an almighty jump for one band of at least £195. Obviously when there are cut off points involved there will be winners and losers but I feel it unfair a car with 226g/km pays the same as one at 400+, especially when the change was brought in retrospectively and many people who bought these cars new in 2006/early 2007 were unaware the duty was to rise so disproportionately.

[Dave Hedgehog]

johnoz said:

Sold my Golf R32 Because of it, it spent more time not being used and i could not justify the cost.

it was part of the reason i sold my R32, i certainly would not buy another car with a top tax band especially when you can get a M135i that cheats the system

[AndySpecD]

To put it all in to perspective, just look at what you pay in income tax. Yes, £490 in one lump seems an awful lot of money, but it's nothing on the grand scheme of things.

[jonah35]

Yeah it does a bit. It goes towards a nice holiday or something useful and £500 in one hit will be felt for anyone on PAYE.