Road Tax Costs

[bad company]

This year I paid £345 to tax my 2002 Chim 500. According to this article it could be a lot more next year but I hadn’t heard anything about the increase.

Anyone taxed their vehicle lately?

https://www.devonlive.com/news/motoring/motorists-...

[sixor8]

sixor8 said:

You must have done it before April then.

It's not really that difficult. Only cars registered after 23/03/06 may anything higher than band K. The last few TVRs (and probably also yours) are often taxed as PLG because no emission data so pay the same as a van.

My 1999 Griff is now £360 p.a.

https://www.evo.co.uk/tvr/207999/tvr-why-we-think-...

[E63eeeeee...]

It's just clickbait bullst, that same basic article gets rolled out regularly to make people think the tax is changing.

[Chocaholic]

Think yourself lucky! I pay twice that amount for my Boxster 2.7S. Time for a charge methinks.

[Marnixvy]

In Belgium, Chimaera 4.0 roadtax 4300€ = 3766,37 GBP every year

[Byker28i]

Marnixvy said:

In Belgium, Chimaera 4.0 roadtax 4300 = 3766,37 GBP every year

And then if you live somewhere like Antwerp, Bruge, Brussels etc, you have to pay if you want to drive into town/city

[sixor8]

Ireland have an annual charge of €2400 if emissions are over 225g/km.

https://www.carzone.ie/motoring-advice/motor-and-r...

For cars registered before 2008 (they were quite late to emission based taxation), it's 'only' €1809 for cars above 3 litre.

[TarquinMX5]

It's not directly relevant but France now has a €70,000 (seventy thousand) 'extra tax' on first registration for any car emitting >190 g/km.

It's been gradually increasing in recent years and is on a sliding scale up to €70,000, based on Co2, and will probably hamper sales slightly when the new Griff is eventually 'on sale'.

[Jon39]

TarquinMX5 said:

It's not directly relevant but France now has a 70,000 (seventy thousand) 'extra tax' on first registration for any car emitting >190 g/km.

It's been gradually increasing in recent years and is on a sliding scale up to 70,000, based on Co2, and will probably hamper sales slightly when the new Griff is eventually 'on sale'.

'Slightly' !

I doubt buyers would even want those cars (>190 g/km).

The charging is fairly unscientific.
Third or fourth cars might be only driven for 1,000 miles enjoyment.
A 100 g/km daily driver may do 10,000 miles.
Which one emits more pollution?

Pay per mile therefore has attractions for low mileage cars, but governments which promote envy and dislike aspiration, want pay per mile in addition to road tax, not instead of. Rather like fuel duty, on which VAT is levied (tax charged on a tax).

[keynsham]

I think there should just be a flat rate of road tax for ever vehicle regardless of what it is. The complexity of the system in the UK now is mental, unfair, and nothing really to do with emissions. That is just the value they use as a scale for the charges. New cars are all very clean anyway and I see very few cars over ten years old on the road. Older cars like ours are generally so infrequently used that they don't really matter!!

[sixor8]

There is, for all cars registered since 2017. Even EVs now. Between 2001 and 2017, it was graduated to penalise the ones that produced the most CO², but NOT NOx which is actually harmful, hence use for LEZ nationwide.

There's no data for cars before that so it's a flat rate again, although 2 rates depending on engine size, < 1549cc.

[MustangGT]

keynsham said:

I think there should just be a flat rate of road tax for ever vehicle regardless of what it is. The complexity of the system in the UK now is mental, unfair, and nothing really to do with emissions. That is just the value they use as a scale for the charges. New cars are all very clean anyway and I see very few cars over ten years old on the road. Older cars like ours are generally so infrequently used that they don't really matter!!

???

It is a flat rate for all cars in the UK, currently £195/year. First registration charge varies, but from year 2 they are all the same. The only difference is the additional charge for expensive cars which is in operation for years 2 to 6 only.

[The Three D Mucketeer]

Charge ALL vehicles on mileage (as per EVs) , scrap duty on Petrol/Diesil and get rid of Vehicle Excise Duty ( and most of DVLA @Swansea)

Mileage obtained at MOTs and I assume by self declaration on newer vehicles not requiring MOTs (as per new EVs I guess)

I pay £1000 / year (VED) for driving less than 5,000 miles in three cars (newest 19 years old)