Will you sell your Wedge?
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This is very worrying.
As I have a Wedge (20 mpg or less), Ferrari (12 mpg), Jaguar (16-23 mpg) and an old motor home (20 mpg or less) it would be disastrous. Though I have only mastered the art of driving one vehicle at a time I already pay £165 each Road Fund Licence which no longer goes into a road fund. I insure each one which carries insurance policy tax. Every time I fill up I pay 80%+ tax. When I buy new tyres I pay VAT (a tax!). When I have the cars maintained I pay for the work and parts PLUS VAT! When I go through the Dartford Tunnel I pay a toll - a form of tax.
Apart from that, when I have a drink (which I am now being driven to) I pay quite a lot of (somebody tell me how much) excise duty PLUS VAT which is a tax on a tax! When I smoke my cigars (yes I must give up!) I pay a load of excise duty - tax - plus the goddam VAT again!
But the worst thing is - as soon as such a tax comes into force the values of our classic cars will plummet - we won't be able to sell them and I and everyone else will go bankrupt and the only people left driving on the roads will be little old biddys in Nissan Micras and civil servants in electric vehicles - and milkmen! Come to think of it, the only people still in employment will be civil servants - I must apply now!
Maybe we'll all end up wearing the same clothes, looking the same, and grunting the same noises of allegiance to the great god Government.
By the way - how many types of tax is that above - if it's more than five I'm jumping off the pier!
I'm sure they just publish ideas like this to see what the public reaction is - just because they can't work things out for themselves.
Time for a new type of government, change the world, blah blah..........
firefox
As I have a Wedge (20 mpg or less), Ferrari (12 mpg), Jaguar (16-23 mpg) and an old motor home (20 mpg or less) it would be disastrous. Though I have only mastered the art of driving one vehicle at a time I already pay £165 each Road Fund Licence which no longer goes into a road fund. I insure each one which carries insurance policy tax. Every time I fill up I pay 80%+ tax. When I buy new tyres I pay VAT (a tax!). When I have the cars maintained I pay for the work and parts PLUS VAT! When I go through the Dartford Tunnel I pay a toll - a form of tax.
Apart from that, when I have a drink (which I am now being driven to) I pay quite a lot of (somebody tell me how much) excise duty PLUS VAT which is a tax on a tax! When I smoke my cigars (yes I must give up!) I pay a load of excise duty - tax - plus the goddam VAT again!
But the worst thing is - as soon as such a tax comes into force the values of our classic cars will plummet - we won't be able to sell them and I and everyone else will go bankrupt and the only people left driving on the roads will be little old biddys in Nissan Micras and civil servants in electric vehicles - and milkmen! Come to think of it, the only people still in employment will be civil servants - I must apply now!
Maybe we'll all end up wearing the same clothes, looking the same, and grunting the same noises of allegiance to the great god Government.
By the way - how many types of tax is that above - if it's more than five I'm jumping off the pier!
I'm sure they just publish ideas like this to see what the public reaction is - just because they can't work things out for themselves.
Time for a new type of government, change the world, blah blah..........
firefox
Reve-erend -
I forgot - we will all be paying VAT (tax) on the rooms and the meals we have at the BBWF!
We should not forget that Kingship (and hence government) started off as a protection racket and the tithes paid were then a form of tax and later eveolved into the taxes we know today.
Perhaps I can invent a new tax and earn a massive fee which will help me pay all the taxes due!
firefox
I forgot - we will all be paying VAT (tax) on the rooms and the meals we have at the BBWF!
We should not forget that Kingship (and hence government) started off as a protection racket and the tithes paid were then a form of tax and later eveolved into the taxes we know today.
Perhaps I can invent a new tax and earn a massive fee which will help me pay all the taxes due!
firefox
What the Government seem to have forgotten is that everyone aged 18 and over can vote, and a very high percentage of people of voting age also have driving licences. Anything that affects drivers will reduce the number of votes that the Govt can hope to get. I for one will not be voting for this mob again, they can sniff my exhaust and like it !!!
Nige'
Nige'
dickymint said:
I would just like to add this is tax deductable - a capital loss.
I will be at the front of the Q at the bar lossing loads .. paying for the hotel etc..
So if we all drink on your tab Rev.............your quids in?come on lads lets help Rev
Hey - that sounds like a good idea... must do that.
firefox1712 said:
This is very worrying.
Though I have only mastered the art of driving one vehicle at a time I already pay £165 each Road Fund Licence which no longer goes into a road fund. firefox
No you don't. You pay Vehicle Excise Duty which is a tax for using a vehicle on the public highway. What 'they' do with it is not your concern.
It is surely just a matter of time before 'they' introduce a tax for OWNING a vehicle - whether driven, parked, stripped for repair or whatever. No doubt it'll be an 'environmental' tax, justified on the grounds that sooner or later the vehicle will have to be disposed of in a suitably 'green' fashion, whether in your lifetime or not. Although round here the scrotes have a similar 'disposal' notion that is commonly applied to Escorts, Fiestas and Novas: they are stolen and burned out in a field....
Ian
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