new tax retae for road tax !!!!!!!!

[pete a]

oh this is pleasant reading, new labour legacy lives on

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicl...

I now have a £435 a year tax disc to fork out for as i bet do an awful lot of us.

[agentsmith]

• Band K includes cars that have a CO2 figure over 225g/km but were registered before 23 March 2006

-- this is the only saving grace.

[Sideways Tim]

It's a stupid system and no mistake. I have a 7.5t lorry that costs less to tax than my chuffing volvo. How does that make any sense?

[pete a]

so my 2002 car escapes the big bill then and leaves me with £245 a year thats not so bad.

Edited by pete a on Friday 14th May 10:59

[JB!]

HOLY COW!!!

£950 road tax for 225g/km cars reg after April 2010!!!

[touching cloth]

That's just the first year rate I believe, not due every year. Have a 55 plated Legacy 3litre which if it was 6 months newer would be £425 but I scrape into the older bracket (for the moment at least) and pay £200 less than that. TVR is cheaper still as not only older but all classed as PLG and think I get £205 rate on that. I'll stick to running older cars I think

[anonymous-user]

JB! said:

HOLY COW!!!

£950 road tax for 225g/km cars reg after April 2010!!!

& i thought £300 was a rip off when i got mine (now £400). What a st hole this place is.

[soad]

So to road tax a larger motorbike only costs £70 per year then...

Older cars + motorbike for the weekends in the summer me thinks

[F355GTS]

JB! said:

HOLY COW!!!

£950 road tax for 225g/km cars reg after April 2010!!!

Yep

[aka_kerrly]

touching cloth said:

I'll stick to running older cars I think

my thoughts exactly. Its one thing paying over £200 but £400 for the same car a few months newer is just stupid hence il be sticking to pre 02 for a little while longer.

Dave

[Groober]

F355GTS said:

JB! said:

HOLY COW!!!

£950 road tax for 225g/km cars reg after April 2010!!!

Yep

Thats only for the first year though isnt it. Its like a showroom tax I suppose.

[andye30m3]

Is the £950 road tax only for the first year?

If so I thought this has been coming for a while, if not £950 a year every year is ridiculous

[soad]

It's for the first year only on new cars, i'm sure.

Don’t be fooled into thinking the £950 road tax is just on sports cars or 4x4s. Purchase the wrong Vauxhall Insignia for instance and you’ll be paying £950 in first year car tax too...

[JB!]

andye30m3 said:

Is the £950 road tax only for the first year?

If so I thought this has been coming for a while, if not £950 a year every year is ridiculous

Isnt the ROI system insanely expensive too?

[uuf361]

Yep, already paid the £435 this year

[pete a]

uuf361 said:

Yep, already paid the £435 this year

Yeah but you've got a Porsche so you can afford it!!!

Not like me on ma benefits

oohh i got all nu labour for a second there where they tried to brainwash me for 13 long years, Nice car that.

[Boosted LS1]

So a 7 litre TR7 will cost £200. Lifes not all bad.

[bazking69]

Another thing that the Camerlegg duo should put on the to do list for reform...

The current system is unfair, crazy and needlessly complex.

[mccrackenj]

It may well be "crazy, unfair & needlessly complex" etc, and I'm not defending it - BUT it's also been in place for just over 9 years.

9 'effin years - and still people post on a motoring forum expressing shock and confusion at how it works FFS!

Do you not take any interest at all in the annual Budget - or read the motoring press?

Jeez!

Edited by mccrackenj on Friday 14th May 15:23

[Allyc85]

For my 2.0 focus ESP im paying £245 this year, the same as a fuel guzzling Impreza STI and Focus RS, ridiculous!