Car Tax April 2009 onwards

[tigersaw]

Despite hearing about it in the budget and news, I havn't really looked at the new VED bands until now - and they are pretty shocking!

On all cars made since 2001, the following will apply:


And then see how much it will cost you from April 2009...
Band M - (255+ CO2 g/km) - £440 road tax
Band L - (225-255)- £415 road tax
Band K - (200-225) - £300 road tax
Band J - (181-200) - £260 road tax
Band I - (171-180) - £205 road tax
Band H - (161-170) - £175 road tax
Band G - (151-160) - £150 road tax
Band F - (141-150) - £120 road tax
Band E - (131-140) - £110 road tax
Band D - (120-130) - £90 road tax
Band C - (120-110) - £30 road tax
Band B - (110-100) - £20 road tax
Band A - (-100) - no road tax


My new car will go down a fiver, but if I had hung on to my old car it was going up by 100 quid!

Might be worth taking a look where your car falls.

Oooh.

Means the VW Polo Bluemotion has zero car tax, 75mpg combined cycle and insurance group 5. Not that I own one

To be honest, so long as it remains fiscally neutral (ie. the total revenue gained doesn't make it a tax rise - it's more carrot than stick, or at least equal measures), then I'm pretty much for more exaggerated efficiency/tax arrangements. If not for CO2 carbon monkeying (as has been amply explained in recent threads, evidence, if not sketchy is not exactly 100% either) but given that low CO2 also tends to equate to more efficient use of resources.

[tigersaw]

[quote=MiniMatt;1465710]

Means the VW Polo Bluemotion has zero car tax, 75mpg combined cycle and insurance group 5. Not that I own one

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more like 45mpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4y02l2AW3o

Hmm, interesting. Something's seriously screwed up if that's the case. I get between 35 and 42 mpg averaged over a tank (and that's worked out manually, not what the computer says) out of a 2.5 V6 audi A4 diesel made in '99. My main drive is about 5 miles of urban + 40 miles of national speed limit twice a day. And I'm definitely "average" in the car, ie. not particularly fussed about ragging it everywhere but also not trying to be super economical.

If a car nearly 10 years newer, half the size, and half the horsepower is only just breaking that, are they sure they've not just wedged a brick onto the gas pedal?

Originally Posted by tigersaw

Despite hearing about it in the budget and news, I havn't really looked at the new VED bands until now - and they are pretty shocking!

On all cars made since 2001, the following will apply:


And then see how much it will cost you from April 2009...
Band M - (255+ CO2 g/km) - £440 road tax
Band L - (225-255)- £415 road tax
Band K - (200-225) - £300 road tax
Band J - (181-200) - £260 road tax
Band I - (171-180) - £205 road tax
Band H - (161-170) - £175 road tax
Band G - (151-160) - £150 road tax
Band F - (141-150) - £120 road tax
Band E - (131-140) - £110 road tax
Band D - (120-130) - £90 road tax
Band C - (120-110) - £30 road tax
Band B - (110-100) - £20 road tax
Band A - (-100) - no road tax


My new car will go down a fiver, but if I had hung on to my old car it was going up by 100 quid!

Might be worth taking a look where your car falls.

is this for 6 months?

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Hmm, interesting. Something's seriously screwed up if that's the case. I get between 35 and 42 mpg averaged over a tank (and that's worked out manually, not what the computer says) out of a 2.5 V6 audi A4 diesel made in '99. My main drive is about 5 miles of urban + 40 miles of national speed limit twice a day. And I'm definitely "average" in the car, ie. not particularly fussed about ragging it everywhere but also not trying to be super economical.

If a car nearly 10 years newer, half the size, and half the horsepower is only just breaking that, are they sure they've not just wedged a brick onto the gas pedal?

its because ,....

Cars MPG's are tested in Lab conditions over a 3 or 4 mile rolling road test with a maximum speed of 56 miles an hour...

and for paying for the 500? difference in 41000 miles... what aload o ****e...

Most cars will achieve good mpg on these runs....

I am not in the least bit suprissed that it only did 47 mpg...

what with that and the price of diesel now, almost 10p a L differance (hmm do you think the government has clocked onto the fact diesels are more popular now!!) I think its going to be cheaper for me to get a little 1.2 petrol concidering the miles i do!!

Unless you do serious miles nowadays and the price diff in fuel i think diesel is becomming a little bit less economical .

I remember when it was cheaper than unleaded.

just worked mine out 130g/kg (corsa 1.3 cdti) which worked out at 120 quid a year
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/ved/

although its only 90 quid acording to tigersaws post?

so i will save 30quid a year,

[Luckypants]

The calculator gives current VED rate for your car. NEXT YEAR they are going up by a load. Mine will go up from 210GBP to 300GBP and I'm not happy about that. It's also knocked a few hundred (maybe 1000s) off the value of my car and I'm even less happy about that!

Originally Posted by Luckypants

The calculator gives current VED rate for your car. NEXT YEAR they are going up by a load.

mines not