I hate this government, they are now saying the new car tax bands are going to include all cars not just those registered after 2001! what a nightmare

 

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1314541,00.html

Fukkin b4stards! This really is fukkin me off!

LOL

 

Any your actualy suprised by this?????

LOL

 

Any your actualy suprised by this?????

 

Yeah actually, you would think they would do this AFTER the election.

We're doing the environment a favour by preventing vehicles from being scrapped. As usual this isn't "green" it's about promoting business.

New Labour my arse.

 

They are progressively destroying this country piece by piece. I am no conspiracy theorist but for fook sake what more do they need to do before people start to see whats happening here?

 

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Fookin right!

 

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so how much will it cost us to tax our cars for a year now?

same as you do now, as yours was registered before 2001

same as you do now, as yours was registered before 2001

 

Saz did you read the article? :D

yeah but i mis read it but on another article i read it was a lot different to this, the facts were different!!

 

Its me being thick then: "The government has admitted that the new higher car tax band for heavily polluting cars will apply to vehicles registered as far back as 2001"

 

I read that as meaning cars 2001 and newer would have to pay it?

erm so is it alot?

general elections tomorrow, im voting conservative, i know its not the major elections but its a start

 

also, if people vote boris johnson for london mayor it will be a big blow to brown as boris is a conservative not like red ken who is a pure labour tax dealer

But then when you read what it says under the video it is cars up to 7 years old.

 

Still confused.

 

Will obviously be more money to pay.

 

Perhaps we should all dump our untaxed cars in Downing street. Ow I forgot, you can't drive along it anymore.

 

Think I will get one more year before it goes up.

 

Darrell

Well Mario posted this link up not long ago and according to this our car is'nt changing (much) however this might not of been updated!

 

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/

general elections tomorrow, im voting conservative, i know its not the major elections but its a start

 

also, if people vote boris johnson for london mayor it will be a big blow to brown as boris is a conservative not like red ken who is a pure labour tax dealer

 

I am getting a head ache so I think they should be lined up outside the houses of Parliament and shot at dawn. Then they should knock big ben down and build a car park for our cars as we will become the new government aptly named the LIBERALZ TURBOCRATS. :D

It was thought vehicles up to seven years old would be exempt from the shake-up, designed to penalise high emissions.

 

But now it has emerged their owners will have to pay the new road duties after all.

 

Erm - where does it say in that article that it will affect cars over 7 years old?!?

It was thought vehicles up to seven years old would be exempt from the shake-up, designed to penalise high emissions.

 

But now it has emerged their owners will have to pay the new road duties after all

just for a bit of perspective think how much energy, as well as money the gov't get from tax ie £1M per day, is being wasted by shutting down grangemouth refinery and the Fortes pipeline for this minor dispute. I work in the oil and gas industry and i can tell you it would make CO2 emissions from every car in the country for the year seem like small change. Not to mention the additional contribution from transporting in reserves and having to ramp up future production for next few months to make up for the loss.

 

In my opinion there is something murky going on with that strike because it makes no sense that the owners and the gov't have let it go this far but just an example how the gov't is using "green" issues as tax generation.

 

Also bear in mind that I heard yesterday (admittedly from an interview with Cameron so likely to be biased) the gov't is trading on the 3rd biggest budget deficit in the world after Hungary, Paraguay and someone else. This means it is trying to claw in as much money as possible to stay afloat.

 

I also agree with the comment that we are doing more good than any high moral opinion Prius driver by recycling an old car. The energy consumption in making a car (forging the steel for the block being a major one) always far exceeds that of its fuel consumption over its lifecycle. Not even to mention the energy to make a car with 2 engines and a battery full of nasty difficult to extract heavy metals.

 

As ever this is nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with TAX.....!

I am getting a head ache so I think they should be lined up outside the houses of Parliament and shot at dawn. Then they should knock big ben down and build a car park for our cars as we will become the new government aptly named the LIBERALZ TURBOCRATS. :D

 

Here's a suggestion for our first policy decision, reduce fuel duty and cap manufacturers petrol and diesel prices.

 

Recon we'll get in with this one!!!

 

Have a few more to win the rest of the working population over.

according to an article in the evening standard this evening the new car tax bands WILL NOT apply to vehicles registered before 2001

 

i apologise for confusing everybody, but that sky article definitely sounded like it was going to affect all cars

 

once again, sorry about that!

 

it looks we pay 195 quid or whatever it is

woohooooo rosco you bring us on a low then a high... what a ride :D

Confused me too but hey at least its good news :D :nana2: :nana2:

I seriously hope that we dont have to pay that much, there is no way im going to pay that much a year they can F*** ***

so was I right?

 

Im confused now :rofl:

Car Tax rules are relatively simple.

 

Because of an ancient ruling a car cannot be re-banded once it has been assigned a tax band. Our cars all fall into the older rules of below or above 1549cc, high or low tax. There is nothing stopping the government changing the value on these tax bands but i doubt they would do anything out landish for fears or mass revolt and no one buying tax.

 

From march 01 we had several bands introduced, this also coincided with all cars having to have a declared emissions output for the tax reasons, some years the government adds bands to the list in order to penalise NEW cars not the older ones, so all the new super tax bands will only ever apply to NEW cars.

 

However there is nothing stopping them increasing the cost of each car tax band, so lets hope they dont go too insane.

 

Systems in this country rely on most people obliging and a few people punished, however if 30m people didnt buy car tax, what could the government do? Impound 30million cars?? Where at? thats my argument so if enough people just didnt bother that would solve the problem!