Road Tax. Why is a 1.8 Elise £260 for 12 months and a......
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s.Gixer said:
System is a joke a VW Golf blue motion is something like £30 ffs. My motor cycles are a lot more than that. The whole idea was that it paid for the roads, now it's just used as a cash cow for anything other than the roads.
it's ridiculous. it's almost as if they think C02 is the gas of the devil. i'm sure trees disagree
The dumbest bit is as much energy is consumed in producing a car as is used in its entire usable life, on average. It makes sense to keep a car on the road as long as possible, rather than tax it off the road after a few years.
If they wanted to tax cars, they should put on an initial one off tax when the car is sold from new, to discourage demand for those polluting cars in the first place, and have no annual taxes thereafter.
Of course, i wouldnt tax either, being a pistonhead.
If they wanted to tax cars, they should put on an initial one off tax when the car is sold from new, to discourage demand for those polluting cars in the first place, and have no annual taxes thereafter.
Of course, i wouldnt tax either, being a pistonhead.
E38Ross said:
Gixer said:
System is a joke a VW Golf blue motion is something like £30 ffs. My motor cycles are a lot more than that. The whole idea was that it paid for the roads, now it's just used as a cash cow for anything other than the roads.
it's ridiculous. it's almost as if they think C02 is the gas of the devil. i'm sure trees disagree
Negative Creep said:
Since the current bands encourage "environmentally friendly" cars, the government must be losing quite a bit of potential revenue. I wonder how long it will be before the bands change.........?
Unfortunately with governments needing to generate tax income it is more likely that they will have to raise the tax on those cars that already pay more rather than manage to penalise those more economical vehicles.Ultimately, a high band CO2 car which does 1000 miles a year pollutes a lot less than a Prius doing 20k per year so should be paying less, but that logic didn't occur to the people who worked out the tax bands.
"bebee said:
So if I fit an old Honda engine in the Elise, will that be cheaper to tax?
No, it'll be taxed on what it had originally IIRC."
Does that work in reverse..... Get a blue motion 30quid a year car rip the engine out drop a 5 litre v8 in it and still only pay 30 quid a year tax??
^^^^^ edit: damn beaten to it by 6 minutes....
So if I fit an old Honda engine in the Elise, will that be cheaper to tax?
No, it'll be taxed on what it had originally IIRC."
Does that work in reverse..... Get a blue motion 30quid a year car rip the engine out drop a 5 litre v8 in it and still only pay 30 quid a year tax??
^^^^^ edit: damn beaten to it by 6 minutes....
Edited by mrmarcus on Saturday 31st March 20:28
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