WTF car tax

[General Baxter]

just got the form out as it needs to be taxed tommorow

£68.75 for a ****ing 1.3 :mad:

[bmw156]

lol i taxed mine the other day, suck it up

[peester]

people pay that for a meal nick

afaik its been around that figure for old cars for ages

[General Baxter]

my 1.7td was only £90 or something

[blue_peg_16v]

your td would be about 103 now

[peester]

it would have been £108-ish for 6 months..?

[bmw156]

what will a 2.0l 8v be? for 6 months?

[Adam]

£104.50 for 6months, did my astra yesterday.

£68 is f**k all! lol

[brainsnova]

as i mentioned before my grandad has to pay £215 on a 1.4 kangoo

[Andy]

Its a fukkin rip off regardless of the cost

[General Baxter]

what am i being taxed on tho ?

driving on the roads?

[Dirtydog1]

its madness, especially when you see the mess the roads are in!

[Andy]

and the price of fuel at the moment
and insurance

[General Baxter]

if i drive on the path, will i need to pay it ?

[Jon_nova1]

soon we'll be like japan where the majority of the population use public transport, apart form the fact the UK can't get its public transport to work

[blue_peg_16v]

erm i dont think that will happen but i can see alot of people changing to smaller cars like the corsa 1.3 diesel thats only £35 a year to tax

[bmw156]

the thing i dont understand about car tax, is we pay for many different things with car tax, like roads, signs, maintance etc etc. and we get higher tax for more polution.

how come there is the new tax bracket where you get free tax, surley they are still using the roads. so IMO they should be paying tax.

[General Baxter]

umm what if i cut my car in half, and just use the front half ? lol

[blue_peg_16v]

there using tax more as a tax on polution now and to get the green vote and people into more eco friendly cars certain emision levels are free, feck the polution that is caused by making the euro boxes and the loss of perfectly usable cars caused by the scrapage scheme its all a pr stunt

[General Baxter]

my car is eco lol

1.3 CARB lol

[Spudly]

Its a fukkin rip off regardless of the cost



Damn right it is, 'road fund licence' they call it, is it fook, it doesnt fund the bloody roads round my end!

[muzzy]

No funding of roads around here either which is pretty poor going considering it is the European Oil Capital, not exactly short of folk paying crazy amounts for road tax yet every time you go out anywhere you burst a tyre or destroy your suspension!

[General Baxter]

still it beats £380 a year for my little van lol

[Jon_nova1]

Who needs roads anyway! i wouldn't complain if there was just dirt tracks for me to rally down lol

would rather that than get flat tyres because theres random sharp objects in the road, can you believe i have a car in the garage with 2 flat P zero's because of crap on the road, they weren't cheap either, they're 205's!:eek:

[Mike]

Could be worse, could be like Australia where you have to pay a "luxury car tax" when you buy new motors out the show room.

[bazil]

dont start me on the roads, imo all council road departments should be shut and the work put out to tender by contractors, ive been on hire with almost every council regions roads department in scotland and also been on hire to lots of different surfaceing contractors and i can honestly say the amount of tax payers mony that gets wasted by councils is scandelous, contractors have to get the job right first time round or they have to come back and do any repair work at their own costs.

rant over thank you :)

[peester]

it is true the roadtax catagories are a mess.. poor old v6 engine'd vectras/mondeo's just on the 2001 year (and onwards)- now nearly 10 years old these cars are going to cost almost more to tax a year (£400) than theyre value complete lol.
Yet a 1 year older jag v8 gets away with £200-ish per year tax.

[L14MNP]

Who needs roads anyway!
http://www.babbtechnology.com/Collect/bttf/bttf2.jpg
:cool:

Agreed on it being a big con and this is the perfect opportunity to quote a journalist from PBMW magazine '....the pathetic monstrosity that is the rutted and intentionally obstructed strip of black sh!te that the UK governemnt dares to call a road network....'

Too true.

[Jack]

erm i dont think that will happen but i can see alot of people changing to smaller cars like the corsa 1.3 diesel thats only £35 a year to tax
The idea is to get people into smaller, more eco friendly cars


the thing i dont understand about car tax, is we pay for many different things with car tax, like roads, signs, maintance etc etc. and we get higher tax for more polution.

how come there is the new tax bracket where you get free tax, surley they are still using the roads. so IMO they should be paying tax.
The idea is to get people into smaller, more eco friendly cars

lol

Thing is, what happens when we all buy cars that fall into the free bracket? They'll adjust it so there is no more free bracket. What happens when we all buy more economical cars that do 100 to the gallon? They'll adjust fuel duty so we still pay more per mile. What happens when we run out of oil? They'll find some way of limiting the supply of replacement fuels so we have to pay ever-rising taxation costs.

FTR, road tax is actually "Vehicle Excise Duty" so by definition has nothing to do with the roads, it is a tax on vehicles.


it is true the roadtax catagories are a mess.. poor old v6 engine'd vectras/mondeo's just on the 2001 year (and onwards)- now nearly 10 years old these cars are going to cost almost more to tax a year (£400) than theyre value complete .
Yet a 1 year older jag v8 gets away with £200-ish per year tax.
Nope, a 2001 car will pay no more than £215 tax.

[peester]

2002 v6 vecs and mondeos then
and 2001 jag then. lol

[John]

just got the form out as it needs to be taxed tommorow

£68.75 for a ****ing 1.3 :mad:

stfu moanar$e. :p

[AlexW]

£215 i think it is for my tigra after april (Yes there putting all the prices up in april), its a bloody 1.6.

Im looking at some of the cars that cost £35 to tax, might as well save some money more they put that up too and decide we need to pay £100's for a litre of fuel.

[Jack]

2002 v6 vecs and mondeos then
and 2001 jag then. lol
Nay, the additional bands only count on vehicles registered after March 2006 ;)

[g111mds]

one of our daily hack is only £35 a year to tax, in fact this year from 1 April i think its down to £30!