How will the SHOCK new car TAX rules affect you?

[Stormbitch]

950% increase in vehicle exist duty!!!!

 

Feel free to comment on the vid or here if you prefer about this

 

[martin2006]

It would make my current car, £100 a year cheaper to tax.

 

If someones going to pay upwards of £100k for a car (audi r8, range rover etc) more than i paid for my last house by the way, then why would they baulk at £2k to tax it?

 

The problem will come when the nil to tax cars become taxable. I imagine most people buy them to save on tax in the first place.

[Stormbitch]

Fair comment.

 

However a 40k car used will be 25k - which is a large proportion of car buyers

 

Who will now pay £37.50 a month for choosing a car that is reasonable or of good quality before they have driven anywhere

 

Similarly those who currently pay nothing will then be paying £140 a year.

 

All the while cyclist are not paying insurance or tax yet use the roads.

[renegadeimp]

All the while cyclist are not paying insurance or tax yet use the roads.

 

Yet. There has been discussion to make cyclists have insurance. And as a person who cycles, its much needed.

[Consumer dude]

Yet. There has been discussion to make cyclists have insurance. And as a person who cycles, its much needed.

 

This would be excellent, and while we are at it, people who use mobiles while walking and crossing the road should have insurance as well..

[Stormbitch]

ha ha Mobile phones.

 

The thing is people tend not to damage cars with their bodies by running red lights

[Consumer dude]

Mobile users crossing roads while not paying attention can still destroy life's and there should be a law against it and don't get me going on fly tipping..

[hightail]

Nissan Leaf will still be free and so will the new Tesla which is going to be under £40k - so does this mean all sub £40k EVs will still be free? I think so but by naming a couple of brands he's left me wondering.

[Moradin]

Scandalous.. that the government introduce rules.. supposedly to improve air quality.. then, when the consumer switches to low emission cars, they start to recieve less taxes

so then change the rules, so boost their income.

 

I know its normal, and in line with what every Labour or Conservative government have done in the last 100 years.. but.. wouldn't it be nice and refreshing to have a

government that acted in a manner that benefits the people. ? - Instead of trying to raise taxes for those that do pay.. why don't they :-

 

Track foreign vehicles on the roads and make them have an MOT and pay car tax.

Ensure foreign lorries have to pay to drive on our roads.

Set up a scheme where all new bicycles have to pay a tax , to set up an insurance scheme for bikes.. (bit like the Motors Insurance Bereau)

Penalise heavily anyone buying any car worth over 50k.

and probably a million other things i can't think of..

[think about it]

Actually works very well for me as the owner of an older high performance car. Currently my VED is almost £500 a year, it'll fall to £140 under these changes.

[MrNumbskull]

Actually works very well for me as the owner of an older high performance car. Currently my VED is almost £500 a year, it'll fall to £140 under these changes.

Unless I've missed something, cars already registered will still be taxed under the old rules. My VED is currently £505 so I must be in the same boat as you?

[think about it]

My mistake, you're absolutely right. Good job I'm trading it in...