New Road Tax rules

Car Buyers Guide - Advice : road tax bands - how car choice affects the road tax you pay - The AA

Just been reading how much Road Tax will increase. It is a bloody disgrace how my tax will nearly double from £210 to £415 next year.

Any sign that the govt will back down over this? This is one of the worst stealth taxes yet!

We have been on about this on here for a while. Many people on here have written to their MP's about it. Whether things will change thats another matter.

It is a shocker, I have been thinking about buying an Alfa for a while now but I'm not keen on paying £300 for tax let alone over £400. So a Diesel it will have to be. It's a very unfair system, my old Jag is 4 litre and must be putting holes in the ozone layer everytime I turn it over but my tax will stay at £185

Here's a good tax calculator to use

Road tax - Parker's

I just hope people remember this when the general election comes.

My car tax is only going up £10 for the year... £145 to £155. I can deal with that....

Originally Posted by Tony_156JTD

My car tax is only going up £10 for the year... £145 to £155. I can deal with that....

It might be this year, the band changes happen next year. I'd guess it'll be around £300 then.
Mine only went up £5 this year. Next year it more than doubles to £450.

Well, my car tax renewal form came through the other day. This year I am playing £140 for 12 months. According to 'Parker's' it will be £150 next year and £155 the year after that.... Still, can't see much of a problem here.

Although, I do want to upgrade to a 159 2.4JTDm in 2 years and the road tax on that will be £300. But, £50 a month for a 210bhp Alfa 159 is money well spent in my opinion.

I do sympathise, but the RX8 is renowned for poor fuel and oil economy, and that is the whole point, to get us into more economical cars. I don't like it any more than you do, but thats why.

AlfaLincs

Originally Posted by AlfaLincs

and that is the whole point, to get us into more economical cars.

Or pre-2001 four-litre-plus V8s, like me and Darren intend to do..

Originally Posted by symonh2000

I just hope people remember this when the general election comes.

They will. And everything else these guys have done. The chickens are really coming home to roost now. The consumer economy in this country is ever so steadily grinding to a halt, and when the money (albeit largely borrowed, and propped up by supposed property values) ceases to circulate it all stops working.
Unfortunately it will be a long time before their insults to the British public can be righted. I wouldn't have any great amount of confidence in another lot making any sort of fist of it - the damage is too great.
In the meantime, I intend to take every opportunity to get in my pre-2001 Gtv 3.0 and continue to needlessly burn up our precious resources and choke us all to death. And apparently at the meagre cost of £185 per annum for the road tax?
How does that make any sense?

Originally Posted by injunfighter

They will. And everything else these guys have done. The chickens are really coming home to roost now. The consumer economy in this country is ever so steadily grinding to a halt, and when the money (albeit largely borrowed, and propped up by supposed property values) ceases to circulate it all stops working.
Unfortunately it will be a long time before their insults to the British public can be righted. I wouldn't have any great amount of confidence in another lot making any sort of fist of it - the damage is too great.
In the meantime, I intend to take every opportunity to get in my pre-2001 Gtv 3.0 and continue to needlessly burn up our precious resources and choke us all to death. And apparently at the meagre cost of £185 per annum for the road tax?
How does that make any sense?

I am going to hang onto my 1997 Fiat for as long as I can as well. Buy that GTV, get the waxoil out, change the oil every 3000 miles and she should last many many years. 2 fingers up to the Government as well.

Originally Posted by AlfaLincs

I do sympathise, but the RX8 is renowned for poor fuel and oil economy, and that is the whole point, to get us into more economical cars. I don't like it any more than you do, but thats why.

AlfaLincs

...but my RX7 uses even more oil and fuel, but wil cost only £120; looks like there's a lot of benefit in staying pre- 2000!

Originally Posted by mave

...but my RX7 uses even more oil and fuel, but wil cost only £120; looks like there's a lot of benefit in staying pre- 2000!

It will soon be classed as a classic. Classic cars don't depreciate much either.

I think the whole situation is crazy, how can a bunch of blokes decide to put these huge cost hikes on when they drive around in large engine jags quite often only for a few hundred metres, as reported in various papers. Eventually unless we all get on the public transport system or walk the government will put us back to the time when cars were only just being made and only the rich could afford them. My tax is going up by £90 and even my girlfriends 1.4 Megane is going up by £30, what is the world coming to.

Who's Alfa/Other can is having the least increase according to 'Parker's'? Mine is only going up by £25 in the next two years... but, like in Lacer's case, £90!? Thats mad

Originally Posted by Lacer

I think the whole situation is crazy, how can a bunch of blokes decide to put these huge cost hikes on when they drive around in large engine jags quite often only for a few hundred metres, as reported in various papers. Eventually unless we all get on the public transport system or walk the government will put us back to the time when cars were only just being made and only the rich could afford them. My tax is going up by £90 and even my girlfriends 1.4 Megane is going up by £30, what is the world coming to.

It doesn't really have a lot to do with reducing pollution, and its not about getting people onto public transport as we all know that it is simply not capable of getting everyone to work.

It is about raising even more revenue from the ever persecuted motorist to pay for the governments over spending, and financial ineptitude.

Originally Posted by symonh2000

I just hope people remember this when the general election comes.

Originally Posted by injunfighter

They will. And everything else these guys have done.

No, people will largely stay away from the polling booths like they always do, and a minority will elect the government.

And that government (be it Labour, tory or AN other) will be brilliant at being self serving shysters who do nothing for the public or country as a whole, preferring instead to feather their nest and please the tiny percentage of ultra-rich in the country, at the expense of everyone else.