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[quote="BigAl"]Mine is due at the end on July, is it really now over £200 at a whopping £205? I just went on the DVLA car checker site http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vnav_bar.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry and was confronted with that ghastly amount. Don't get me started on tax by co emissions, its road tax not emission tax FFS!! Cars wear out the road regardless of what emission bracket they are in. Does all that money go where it is supposed to, on road maintenance, no, more likely in overpaid government officials that don't live in the real world and get driven everywhere by fat gas guzzling jags that us tax payers pay for, not forgetting about expenses!!![/quote]
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paulhide
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:41 pm
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and don't forget 'parking tax'.
(and speeding tax)
BigAl
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:22 pm
Post subject:
Road tax
Emission tax
Fuel tax
Mileage tax
lee16v
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:20 pm
Post subject:
Brit01 wrote:
But when I have to clean the soot of my balcony every weekend then you wonder why they don't enforce some minimum emission standards here.
That's a fair point also.
May I suggest painting your balcony black
Brit01
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:03 pm
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Well that's an interesting way of looking at it. Yes you have a point that manufacturing new cars is a contaminating process.
But when I have to clean the soot of my balcony every weekend then you wonder why they don't enforce some minimum emission standards here.
lee16v
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:53 am
Post subject:
Anonymous wrote:
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Also this encourages pollution as there are no MOTs done, the older and more polluting the car is the less in tax you pay. It's all backwards here.
Surely a government that encourages the running of older cars is a good thing with regards to pollution. I'm sure you could run your car for 20 years and still not be close to the pollution created by producing a new car.
Brit01
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:39 am
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Sorry guys I didn't log in. That was me posting about road tax here in Uruguay.
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:34 am
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Guys,
I wish I was back in the UK to take advantage of the CHEAP road tax you have. Don't complain, you have got it soooo good.
I live in a country (Uruguay) with 3rd world salaries and first world prices.
My old 1988 33 costs me about 250 pounds in road tax and we have almost dirt roads with pot holes that haven't been touched for 50 years.
Some examples of road tax prices here:
Corsa 2008: 1000 USD a year
BMW 2006 X5: 10,000 USD a year (YES TEN THOUSAND USD!!!).
Basically the more luxury the car is the more you pay EXPONENTIALLY to put more money into the pockets of the government employees and not the roads.
Also this encourages pollution as there are no MOTs done, the older and more polluting the car is the less in tax you pay. It's all backwards here.
bobbber
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:59 am
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I just think about adding up the amount of tax I pay to drive... car tax, tax on insurance, tax on fuel... then think, "am I getting value for money???"
Well the answer is no!
The conclusion is "they're wasting my money"... and then car tax and fuel duty go up! Grrr...
bobbber
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:50 am
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Richard, I did read your post carefully and with great interest. My response was more a general tax rant than a reference to your post. I agree the context may have made it sound more like a rejection of what you said though...
That's the problem with the internet... no sense of intonation!
RFlower
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:15 am
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bobbber wrote:
No, No, No, No, No, No...
We already pay enough tax in the UK thanks. How about the government start giving us value for money by providing only essential services at good prices?
BB
If you read my post a bit more carefully, it's about paying
less
tax, and saving taxpayers' money.
bobbber
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:55 am
Post subject:
No, No, No, No, No, No...
We already pay enough tax in the UK thanks. How about the government start giving us value for money by providing only essential services at good prices?
And why does "independent inquiry" seem to have unlimited time-scale and unlimited funds? Like the "Bloody Sunday" inquiry - 12 years in the making and £195m.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/10310598.stm
Now, I'm the first to appreciate the report is about a touchy subject... but REALLY COME ON... WHERE IS THE SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE?!?! If I have a project in work and I get half the time it needs and half the money it needs, and if I don't make it work then I get into trouble.
I'd have given them 6 months and £1m to sort out a conclusion.... honestly - I ask you.
No wonder our once great country is in a total mess... it's appalling.
BB
BigAl
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:50 pm
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Sounds good
No fines for forgetting to re-tax and insured all the time
RFlower
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:01 pm
Post subject:
BigAl wrote:
We alrerady pay the most tax on fuel in the whole world.
Yer look at the size of waggon wheels, smaller and same/more price, pay more for less.
Divide the cost of your road tax (£205) by the number of litres of petrol you buy per year, to see what road tax
now
costs you per litre for using your car on the road.
If I drove 12,000 miles per year in my Trofeo, at 40mpg, I would buy 300 gallons, or about 1,360 litres a year - which means road tax would cost me about 15p (£205 / 1,360) for every litre of fuel I used.
In fact I only drive the car about half that distance, so it would be costing 30p per litre.
So even 20p on a litre of petrol would be cheaper than annual road tax.
BigAl
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:04 pm
Post subject:
We alrerady pay the most tax on fuel in the whole world.
Yer look at the size of waggon wheels, smaller and same/more price, pay more for less.
RFlower
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:51 pm
Post subject:
I think car tax should be abolished and about 5p per litre added to the cost of petrol. That way drivers would be paying for the amount they use the roads, also not paying more for each car they own - they can't use them all at the same time!
That would get rid of the people in Cardiff who spend their lives sending out reminders for tax and SORN, then sending out receipts or reminders, and being unhelpful on the 'phone. Maybe something useful can be found for them to do, but I'm not too sympathetic.
Put an MOT sticker (as in France and Spain) and a little insurance certificate (as in France) on the car windscreen to prove the car is legal.
Then get rid of expensive APNR equipment and the tax and insurance database - the police have to phone up any time a driver disagrees with the camera anyway, because it's impossible to keep the database updated for every vehicle in the country.
And don't even think about schemes for fitting GPS equipment to charge commercial vehicles for distance travelled. They will do so automatically when they buy fuel.
Oh, and limit the amount of fuel brought in in the huge tanks of foreign trucks. EU has a limit now of 600 litres, which is ridiculous. Ignore the EU rules, France does.
Maybe the above would even help a little bit with the Budget deficit
Edit: I remember when Mars bars were 4
old
pence - they were bigger, too
john 33_16v
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:11 am
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bobbber wrote:
I'll call my friend Mr. Cameron tomorrow.
B
Tell him to say hello to Grant Shapps the new housing minister. He was in my year at school.
John
john 33_16v
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:07 am
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BigAl wrote:
Hey I remember 1/2 penny sweets and mars bars were 10p and feasts were 20p
I remember Mars at 8p, and when my dad had the ravin' hump 'cos petrol had gone up to 70p a GALLON.
John
BigAl
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:56 am
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Hey I remember 1/2 penny sweets and mars bars were 10p and feasts were 20p
bobbber
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:01 pm
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Maybe I'm getting old (my nan, when I was a kid, used to complain that cod and chips had gone up to 80p).... however £205 seems wicked steep!
I'll call my friend Mr. Cameron tomorrow.
B
bobbber
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:58 pm
Post subject:
Link doesn't work... what did you expect? Thank the lord we now have a bit more of a sane government, although I can't see their "green" agenda making this any better. Don't worry... it's only paper
B
BigAl
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:16 pm
Post subject: car tax
Mine is due at the end on July, is it really now over £200 at a whopping £205?
I just went on the DVLA car checker site
http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vnav_bar.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry
and was confronted with that ghastly amount.
Don't get me started on tax by co emissions, its road tax not emission tax FFS!!
Cars wear out the road regardless of what emission bracket they are in.
Does all that money go where it is supposed to, on road maintenance, no, more likely in overpaid government officials that don't live in the real world and get driven everywhere by fat gas guzzling jags that us tax payers pay for, not forgetting about expenses!!!