Car Tax, crazy cost!!

lilac_lady

My car has a £35 per year tax - one of the reasons I bought it. My old car - 1.6 VW Polo was £180, going up to £220.

alanrowell

Kilty wrote: »

I do love how the manufacturers have got wise to it and can produce a small turbo engine that will produce more power and less emmisions than my 2.0 N/A (and thus cost less than the hideous £235/year to tax)

Which is the whole point of the tax method - to produce more efficient engines, so why are saying it's manufacturers getting wise?

daveyjp

Manufacturers aren't "getting wise". EU laws have made it a requirement that the average CO2 output for car manufactuirers must fall dramatically over the next few years.

So you can still make Lambourghinis, but to compensate VAG (owners of Lambourghini) have to manufacture Polos with a very low CO2 output to lower the average.

bigmaz

lilac_lady wrote: »

My car has a £35 per year tax - one of the reasons I bought it. My old car - 1.6 VW Polo was £180, going up to £220.

But how much was the car, and how many car seats can you fit in it?

davetrousers

bigmaz wrote: »

I am about to tax a car I have just bought. And seen the cost to tax it, £112.75 for 6 months!

Just pay for 12 months to avoid paying the 10% extra. Simple.

bigmaz

davetrousers wrote: »

Just pay for 12 months to avoid paying the 10% extra. Simple.

I dont know if the car will last 6 months, so will do 6 months for now...

custardy

bigmaz wrote: »

I dont know if the car will last 6 months, so will do 6 months for now...

pay 12 and if it doesnt you can claim the remainder back

bigmaz

custardy wrote: »

pay 12 and if it doesnt you can claim the remainder back

Cool, I never knew that )

nobby24

I pay £435pa for my car tax, but then I work with young blokes who are paying £1800 for insurance so it doesn't seem too bad!

bluebluecow

Brilliant, my 03 meriva died, (computer failed) so brought a old astra £300, yeah its great gets me hubby and 3 kids in carseats in, and our camping equipment, and just found out cheaper to tax was £112 for 6mths on the ,meriva. Ok the meriva was a 1.6 and the astras a 1.4 but the astras more fun to drive. Will be sad when it becomes my hubbys when he passes his test