Car Tax Budget
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gsmcoverage

Original Poster:

207 posts

263 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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I see our wonderful chancellor has introduced a new car tax bracket of £210 per year for the "most" polluting cars. Wonder what the threshold will be and if the vette falls in to it with the 5.7L engine in it?

Gixer

4,463 posts

269 months

te51cle

2,342 posts

269 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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It looks most C5s and C6s would normally be in the highest group - G - but as pretty much everyone at the moment registered before March '06 then we'll be in group F so its £190 at next renewal if you please...

Or £175 if you were registered before 2001...

>> Edited by te51cle on Wednesday 22 March 18:20

franv8

2,212 posts

259 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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Reault for the 1980's cars then!

Gixer

4,463 posts

269 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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Renault for the 1980's cars then! ?????? I have an American car not a French one

te51cle

2,342 posts

269 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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I had a 1986 Renault 5 GT Turbo ! Wonder if its still in one piece ?

Gixer

4,463 posts

269 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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te51cle said:
I had a 1986 Renault 5 GT Turbo ! Wonder if its still in one piece ?



must be on its 40th turbo by now

vetteheadracer

8,273 posts

274 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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Not quite sure how much pollution a car makes when it sits in the garage and I drive another car?

Obviously lots according to Herr Chancellor.....what a Tw@t......he doesn't even have a driving license the fat smug git.

I would much rather he had scrapped car tax and put about 4p a litre on petrol. He would have been quids in according to my calculations below.

Average Annual Mileage 20,000
Average Consumption 20MPG therefore 1,000 gallons.
1,000 gallons = 4,540 litres * £0.04 = £181.60

The method of collecting VED is very inefficient and costs more than it generates it also allows scum to avoid paying tax. My suggestion would mean you could not avoid paying the tax....unless of course you have a car that doesn't run on LPG, Petrol or Diesel.

The more you drive the more you pollute therefore the more you pay. NOT Gordon the morons thinking which is keep a car in the garage pay £200, drive the same car 1 mile or 100,000 miles pay £200.....w@nker.

Gixer

4,463 posts

269 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
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cant believe what I have just dug out in the net, check the main PH thread as above

corsette

135 posts

256 months

Thursday 23rd March 2006
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He is a politician and therefore an idiot

If I pay more fixed costs for something I need to use it more to recover those costs, not use it less.

ZR1cliff

17,999 posts

270 months

Thursday 23rd March 2006
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Nigel have you thought of doing SORN while your car is off the road,i also think the road tax scrapped and put on petrol would of been a much fairer way of going about it.
I also cant help thinking there is something not right here...they want to make greener fuel cheaper(that my vette can use?) but tax me higher cos its a gas guzzler?.....is this right.

The way i see it weve got our own selves to blame by not getting of our lazy arses and voting this lot out....,ok theres not alot of choice to replace this government but the longer they are left in the more complacent upon our needs and the more they take advatage of us ,it happenend with the thatcher Govt,ime convinced short term govts are the only way of getting the best for the people.

franv8

2,212 posts

259 months

Thursday 23rd March 2006
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Reference my earlier post - anyone know when we're getting spellcheck on here?

I thnik Im' ahvnig prbloems.

anonymous-user

75 months

Friday 24th March 2006
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te51cle said:
£175 if you were registered before 2001...


Had the MOT done yesterday bringing my total maintenance costs for the year to; Oil and filter £62 plus MOT £44 = £106

Damn, these cars are expensive to run!

adetuono

7,596 posts

248 months

Friday 24th March 2006
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5 USA said:
te51cle said:
£175 if you were registered before 2001...


Had the MOT done yesterday bringing my total maintenance costs for the year to; Oil and filter £62 plus MOT £44 = £106

Damn, these cars are expensive to run!


Better post that on the TVR thread

V10 BAT

1,718 posts

255 months

Friday 24th March 2006
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vetteheadracer said:
Not quite sure how much pollution a car makes when it sits in the garage and I drive another car?

Obviously lots according to Herr Chancellor.....what a Tw@t......he doesn't even have a driving license the fat smug git.

I would much rather he had scrapped car tax and put about 4p a litre on petrol. He would have been quids in according to my calculations below.

Average Annual Mileage 20,000
Average Consumption 20MPG therefore 1,000 gallons.
1,000 gallons = 4,540 litres * £0.04 = £181.60

The method of collecting VED is very inefficient and costs more than it generates it also allows scum to avoid paying tax. My suggestion would mean you could not avoid paying the tax....unless of course you have a car that doesn't run on LPG, Petrol or Diesel.

The more you drive the more you pollute therefore the more you pay. NOT Gordon the morons thinking which is keep a car in the garage pay £200, drive the same car 1 mile or 100,000 miles pay £200.....w@nker.

VETTEHEADRACER FOR P/M AND CLIFFY CAN BE HIS DEPUTY

Gixer

4,463 posts

269 months

Friday 24th March 2006
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I agree with that Nigel but uno this Gov, we would still loose big time. New Labour is the party for the NON-working class....sit on ya arse and get everything you want, work hard and tax tax tax

If they don't put it on petrol, they should put it on the driver not the car. With 2 cars and 2 bikes thats 4 lots of road tax between the 2 of us how can we go out on/in all 4 at the same time??