Road tax increase! :(

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

mazda RX8 236bhp version

Its £470 a year tax

Ours isn't. Pretty much the latest one you can get before the tax goes through the roof as its a Jan 2006 and anything IIRC March onwards hits the 'new' bend over group.

Although I even wrote to my MP when they were proposing backdating the tax increases (and to be fair to him he even brought it up in parliament).

Druid

[ophic]

Originally Posted by fastdruid

Ours isn't. Pretty much the latest one you can get before the tax goes through the roof as its a Jan 2006 and anything IIRC March onwards hits the 'new' bend over group.

Although I even wrote to my MP when they were proposing backdating the tax increases (and to be fair to him he even brought it up in parliament).

Druid

Well done there. I don't want my 2005 2.7L petrol V6 4x4's tax to be brought in line with the new brackets either

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by ophic

Well done there. I don't want my 2005 2.7L petrol V6 4x4's tax to be brought in line with the new brackets either

I actually wrote to him and said (something along the lines of) that all it was is a punishment tax, fine to increase the bands on 'new' cars, that might change peoples buying habits (towards lower 'polluting' cars) but claiming that it was in the name of 'being green' to change the bands on existing cars is bullsh*t as its plain and simple punishing people for a decision they made sometimes years before. It won't change the number of 'polluting' cars. The increases will reduce the value so owners are stuck, either pay the tax or lose the same (or more) money in value (values of high CO2 cars dropped lots after it was announced that they were planning on rebanding).

Druid

****..been hit twice with car/bike extra £34 a year for both.
http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/#

My ktm got taxed on the 31st so I was lucky and got the old price.
Still £48 for something that very rarely sees Tarmac is a bit steep.
I still think that the best way would be to scrap road tax and lump it in with fuel so if you have more than 1 bike or car ect, your only paying for what you use.
We would still only end up getting robbed by the government though.

[embee]

I'm actually in favour of the principle of what they're doing with car tax generally, encouraging better economy. Most people could downsize one class in car if they wanted, smaller cars are getting more capable these days.

What does annoy me about the detail of what they've done is the unfair anomalies. I saw what was coming 10 years ago and bought a 1.0L Yaris ahead of the game, but because it was before the CO2 banding came in I now pay a penalty, albeit probably only an extra £30 or so a year, but it all counts.

The really annoying bit is that the car banding now puts band B (<110gm/km) at £20/year and band C (<120gm/km) at £30, wheres a >600 bike using about 110gm/km (equivalent to around 55mpg) is £70, which simply cannot be rationally argued. Bikes are seen as anti-social and undesirable, and they want to penalise the category, full stop. No-one said life was fair, but governments really take the pi$$ sometimes.

Did I mention the TV prog the other week with family on benefits getting £568/week ...............

[rowdy]

Originally Posted by fastdruid

Ours isn't. Pretty much the latest one you can get before the tax goes through the roof as its a Jan 2006 and anything IIRC March onwards hits the 'new' bend over group.

Although I even wrote to my MP when they were proposing backdating the tax increases (and to be fair to him he even brought it up in parliament).

Druid

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that the increase in tax was on cars made from 2001 onwards.

I hope you are right though as our car is an 03 and emits 219g/km so would be hit with a large increase if it is 01 onwards.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by rowdy

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that the increase in tax was on cars made from 2001 onwards.

I hope you are right though as our car is an 03 and emits 219g/km so would be hit with a large increase if it is 01 onwards.

They changed from capacity to emissions banding in 2001. They introduced new high emissions brackets in 2006, which are much more expensive. However, they're not applied to already registered cars, hence my car is a band K £245 instead of a band L £425.

[ophic]

Barwel, where does your mum's £470 come from? Top tax bracket looks like £435.

Originally Posted by ophic

Barwel, where does your mum's £470 come from? Top tax bracket looks like £435.

thats what she got through the post, will go and have a look in a bit it could be £435 but im sure its £470 she sead it had gone up £70 as well

hers is a 2007 rx8 just a year out lol from the 2006 rule thing

EDIT got it wrong hers in £405 but dad sead it has gone up £70