Too expensive to tax?

[Nick3point2]

On Facebook I've just seen a friend sold his car today, on the grounds of being too expensive to tax... Got me thinking, would I ever sell a car because of the cost of tax? At this rate, no. VED constitutes 4 fifths of fk all when it comes to running a car these days so I can't see a reason why I'd want to sell a car because it's too expensive to tax.

So I put it to the PH masses, would you sell a car because it costs too much to tax?

[martin mrt]

I wouldnt sell a car because it was too expensive to tax, however I wouldn't buy a car that was in the silly high tax bracket either

[littleandy0410]

A lot of my colleagues bh and moan about the cost of road tax. For me, it's a small percentage of my annual car running costs. It's less than a year's insurance, and even the top band is less than 6 weeks fuel for me.

I wouldn't sell a car due to the cost of tax, but would be reluctant to buy a top band car in the first place, due to the poor fuel economy which accompanies the high emissions. 20k a year rules that out!

[mrmr96]

Nick3point2 said:

On Facebook I've just seen a friend sold his car today, on the grounds of being too expensive to tax... Got me thinking, would I ever sell a car because of the cost of tax? At this rate, no. VED constitutes 4 fifths of fk all when it comes to running a car these days so I can't see a reason why I'd want to sell a car because it's too expensive to tax.

So I put it to the PH masses, would you sell a car because it costs too much to tax?

You need to check out the bands in Republic of Ireland mate!

[bazking69]

I'd look at the taxation class when weighing up a potential purchase.

[Bungleaio]

That's the idea of putting the tax up, it makes people want the cheap to run low emission vehicles.

The silly high tax cars will be interesting in a few years. Ok if you are buying a car brand new you might have a higher disposable income to spend the best part of £500 to tax your £30k car but fast forward to when the car has had a few owners and is worth a couple of grand to spend £500 on tax is probably a lot of money to that owner.

[J4CKO]

Yep, like people who buy a specced up 1 series diesel at 25 grand to get cheap/free tax and then do 2000 miles a year, its the chattering classes response to austerity

[cml]

mrmr96 said:

You need to check out the bands in Republic of Ireland mate!

So I did:
http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/car-tax-ireland.htm


2,100 Euros!!!!

They really don't want poor people to have cars with big engines or somthing like that.

[StottyZr]

I'm not really fussy but I'd be lead to believe the next owner would be. The majority of the population look for things like cheap tax in a car and good fuel economy (on paper) this would lead me to believe a "eco" car would hold its value better and be easier to resell.

[badlands1]

No, it would never make me sell a car or stop me buying one, high tax or not.
One has to have a toy.

[mrmr96]

cml said:

mrmr96 said:

You need to check out the bands in Republic of Ireland mate!

So I did:
http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/car-tax-ireland.htm


2,100 Euros!!!!

They really don't want poor people to have cars with big engines or somthing like that.

Exactly!!

[B'stard Child]

mrmr96 said:

cml said:

mrmr96 said:

You need to check out the bands in Republic of Ireland mate!

So I did:
http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/car-tax-ireland.htm


2,100 Euros!!!!

They really don't want poor people to have cars with big engines or somthing like that.

Exactly!!

Untill they are 25 years old from memory....

[iphonedyou]

I could definitely see it being an issue for me. I have a 6 mile daily commute and usually drink at the weekends, so I don't use the car enough to justify a massive tax rate.

Thankfully my Integra is PLG or something, so it's £215 odd to tax despite being 2 litres and dirty like your mamma.

[PJ S]

LPG converted do you mean?
Irrespective, all 'dirty' cars prior to 23/03/2006 are taxed under K bracket, so £260 currently.

[johnpeat]

I can't imagine there are THAT many cars where the Tax is a major burden - I mean if you've managed to buy something which is 2001+ and in Bands JKLM to use for less than a few thousand miles a year (when petrol will outstrip tax costs anyway) - you're an idiot surely????

[thinfourth2]

My Ford focus

Cost to buy = £400

Cost to tax = £215

[rottie102]

PJ S said:

LPG converted do you mean?
Irrespective, all 'dirty' cars prior to 23/03/2006 are taxed under K bracket, so £260 currently.

PLG - Private Light Goods

[Mx5guy]

B'stard Child said:

mrmr96 said:

cml said:

mrmr96 said:

You need to check out the bands in Republic of Ireland mate!

So I did:
http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/car-tax-ireland.htm


2,100 Euros!!!!

They really don't want poor people to have cars with big engines or somthing like that.

Exactly!!

Untill they are 25 years old from memory....

Is that it? :P Just try buying a car in Norway. To import my MX-5?

£2500 to buy in UK/ Germany
£10 000 once paying all the tax to get it here (and so the second hand market is also worth that).

In addition the calculations are based on weight and kp/ CO2 for the car, so the MX-5 is rather cheap compared to big powerful cars!

[kwak]

I don't understand people thinking £500 per year is a lot. Here in Belgium, we pay that for any car with more than 163PS, and it goes up really quickly. At 200PS, its about €1500, and from there, €100 extra per ~10PS.

[B160 AVE]

My missus has just changed her car mainly down to cost of tax. She`s paid £1,800 to change cars to save £85 per year