RE: Secret Road Tax Hits Thousands
Discussion
Some people seem to get away with not taxing their cars at all - that's why the DVLA have vans going round with ANPR cameras to clamp people who have no tax. Clearly there aren't enough cameras to catch all of them - you only have to walk round the car park on a track day to see those with no tax.
So maybe that's the way forward.
So maybe that's the way forward.
andy400 said:
cornishgirl said:
andy400 said:
cornishgirl said:
andy400 said:
TBH I'm not looking for a lot from the Tories if (when) they take the reins. Never mind wanting them to make things better, I'd be happy if they could just stop things getting worse on a daily basis.........
If you seriously think the Tories, LibDems or anyone else will make life better for the ordinary car-loving driver then I'm afraid you (we) will all be disappointed. Cars = tax tax tax tax tax tax tax
puffpuff said:
andy400 said:
cornishgirl said:
andy400 said:
cornishgirl said:
andy400 said:
TBH I'm not looking for a lot from the Tories if (when) they take the reins. Never mind wanting them to make things better, I'd be happy if they could just stop things getting worse on a daily basis.........
If you seriously think the Tories, LibDems or anyone else will make life better for the ordinary car-loving driver then I'm afraid you (we) will all be disappointed. Cars = tax tax tax tax tax tax tax
Stevorocket said:
Some people seem to get away with not taxing their cars at all - that's why the DVLA have vans going round with ANPR cameras to clamp people who have no tax. Clearly there aren't enough cameras to catch all of them - you only have to walk round the car park on a track day to see those with no tax.
So maybe that's the way forward.
Yup - when your rat car is worth less than the tax or a declamping fee, hello new car So maybe that's the way forward.
Just trying to make all you petrolheads feel a little better. Remember the stories you were told about how you should "cheer up, there's always someone worse off than you".
Well your buddies over here to the west of you should make you all feel a little better when you have to fork out for your new road tax levy. Now it doesn't affect used cars (yet) but here in Ireland, from July, if you buy a car emitting over 225 gm/k you will be forking out €2,000 (£1,565) for your road tax.
Used cars are still based on engine size so even if you have anything over 3.0 litres you still need to stump up €1,491 (£1,167).... even if you have a 1981 Jag XJ 3.4, you would need to pay over £1,100 to drive it on the road.
So cheer up boys and girls, you don't have it so bad after all!
P.S. If you think our road tax is bad, you should see the price of our cars.
New RENAULTSport Clio CUP.
UK Price: £15,015. IRISH Price: £25,030
Well your buddies over here to the west of you should make you all feel a little better when you have to fork out for your new road tax levy. Now it doesn't affect used cars (yet) but here in Ireland, from July, if you buy a car emitting over 225 gm/k you will be forking out €2,000 (£1,565) for your road tax.
Used cars are still based on engine size so even if you have anything over 3.0 litres you still need to stump up €1,491 (£1,167).... even if you have a 1981 Jag XJ 3.4, you would need to pay over £1,100 to drive it on the road.
So cheer up boys and girls, you don't have it so bad after all!
P.S. If you think our road tax is bad, you should see the price of our cars.
New RENAULTSport Clio CUP.
UK Price: £15,015. IRISH Price: £25,030
page3 said:
VladD said:
caroline lo said:
we have no choice but to drive big vehicles.
Technically speaking you do have a choice because you weren't forced to have 4 kids (I hope not anyway).Anyway, welcome to Pistonheads
VladD said:
page3 said:
VladD said:
caroline lo said:
we have no choice but to drive big vehicles.
Technically speaking you do have a choice because you weren't forced to have 4 kids (I hope not anyway).Anyway, welcome to Pistonheads
(...but you can have a very belated welcome too, even if you've been here longer than me...)
You've all missed the point. The new hikes are so that the rich, who are now even richer than they were ten years ago, can become the true elitists that they want to be and us minnions will have to start using horse and cart again.
Give me a party who are somway between the BNP, Greens and some added bits like being able to watch the police beat up the scum when they deserve with no retribution and I would gladly pay for anything they deemed 'necessary'.
I don't even want to start about the incredible climate change fiasco that is fuelling this tax hike in the first place!
Disgruntled
Give me a party who are somway between the BNP, Greens and some added bits like being able to watch the police beat up the scum when they deserve with no retribution and I would gladly pay for anything they deemed 'necessary'.
I don't even want to start about the incredible climate change fiasco that is fuelling this tax hike in the first place!
Disgruntled
andy400 said:
An interesting point from a comment on the Sky News website: How come so many were willing to protest and even riot due to the Poll Tax, which arguably was much fairer and much less expensive that this governments crap, and yet we all just roll over and take this?
Have they got us beat? How did they whip us to the point where we just moan and do nothing? (I'm no better TBH)
Because the majority of people that actually rioted at the poll tax rally were on the fringes of society anyway, thus not worried about jobs, mortgages, criminal records etc.Have they got us beat? How did they whip us to the point where we just moan and do nothing? (I'm no better TBH)
Well, in my e-mail to my local MP, that nice Mr Cameron, I've pointed out that under NuLabor, motorists face average increases in costs of ten times the average rate of inflation next year.
I asked him to persuade Brown and Darling to perform another of their famous U-turns and to:
- Retain the pre-budget VED banding
- Retain the exemption for pre-2006 vehicles
- Abandon any thought of the 2p tax rise
Hopefully, by the time he reads my e-mail, NuLabor will have received the 'sound kicking' in the local elections, of which William Hague spoke recently, and will soon be in such a parlous state that a vote of no confidence will force a General Election and the end of their deceitful period in office.
I asked him to persuade Brown and Darling to perform another of their famous U-turns and to:
- Retain the pre-budget VED banding
- Retain the exemption for pre-2006 vehicles
- Abandon any thought of the 2p tax rise
Hopefully, by the time he reads my e-mail, NuLabor will have received the 'sound kicking' in the local elections, of which William Hague spoke recently, and will soon be in such a parlous state that a vote of no confidence will force a General Election and the end of their deceitful period in office.
In Germany legislation is far worse. Cars are taxed on a rising scale pertaining to engine size and the older the car the higher the tax also.
Its also a sliding band that progressively drives old cars/w/big engines off the roads.
I'm SO glad I dont have to be subject to stupid rules like this anymore.
It's just the Greenie dream with its vision to drive everyones lives down to the same level of grey mediocrity
Its also a sliding band that progressively drives old cars/w/big engines off the roads.
I'm SO glad I dont have to be subject to stupid rules like this anymore.
It's just the Greenie dream with its vision to drive everyones lives down to the same level of grey mediocrity
nickwilcock said:
Hopefully, by the time he reads my e-mail, NuLabor will have received the 'sound kicking' in the local elections, of which William Hague spoke recently, and will soon be in such a parlous state that a vote of no confidence will force a General Election and the end of their deceitful period in office.
This raises an interesting point. Under what grounds can a vote of no confidence be raised? Can the electorate do it? If so, how? Or is it initiated by the opposition? Could a sound kicking whereby Nulab lose all their local govt seats be the catalyst?Edited by schmalex on Thursday 1st May 21:38
Ribol said:
NEAKY said:
I bought our freshly imported Evo VI in Jan 07 but luckily for me the first UK registration date is down as April 99 and its got PLG on the document as well so my tax will be staying low(ish).
You don't seriously believe they will leave the PLGs out of this do you?I will bet anything you like that if they rope in the pre 2001 brigade, they will do the PLGs at the same time.
Make no mistake we are ALL going to get shafted here if this happens.
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