Road tax and The Budget

Belair

My road tax expires on 31st March. If I renew it today at £175, will I have to pay the difference after The Budget?

My engine size is 1991

Eskimo12345

I very, very much doubt it mate. It'd be like them saying I've got to cough up the extra from when I paid in January.

Mine's £175 too, inconvenient isn't it :mad:

finallydebtfree!!

you pay whatever price it is on the day you purchase it, which is why I purchased mine online on the 15th. paid online on thurday afternoon, it arrived saturday morning!

Belair

Many thanks. we can't yet purchase on line and it's a bank holiday here - St Patrick's. I will be at the post office first thing tomorrow -if it's going up to £400 there is a massive saving to be made. :T

JohalaReewi

Didn't they do this a couple of years ago? The reminders went out for renewals before the budget. The car tax was raised in the budget as from Midnight and when people went to renew their tax with the original remiders, they still had to stump up the new rate.

katy2

I have just been and renewed tax for my disco for the year, £175 as per the renewal notice. If you wait till after the budget you will have to stump the new rate. Once before I waited till nearer the end of the month applied by post, but got it returned and had to send extra. Didn't want to risk that this time, in case it goes up by a lot.

finallydebtfree!!

Belair wrote: »

Many thanks. we can't yet purchase on line and it's a bank holiday here - St Patrick's. I will be at the post office first thing tomorrow -if it's going up to £400 there is a massive saving to be made. :T

my tax renewal form didnt have the online reference number, I used my log book number and my registration number, dont know if you would be able to do it that way?

mel123

thank you for the reminder usually leave it till last minute but done it early nd for 12 instead of 6 months. They left the ref number off the form so rang in the renewal with log book ref. Once again thanks for saving me some money.

Belair

finallydebtfree!! wrote: »

dont know if you would be able to do it that way?

I live in Northern Ireland and we have to go via DVLNI - with no option to pay online. Sure I can slip out to the post office during my lunchbreak!

Rikki

Belair wrote: »

My road tax expires on 31st March. If I renew it today at £175, will I have to pay the difference after The Budget?

My engine size is 1991

No you don't pay any increase.

If you look on your renewal it will give you the earliest date you can pay it. Mine was after the 15th of the month.

Pay it now.

steve_r123

According to rumour control, are all the car tax bands going to increase, or just the gas guzzlers?

My car is just 1g/km (:rolleyes: typical) into Band C (£110 per year) and is due at the end of this month, so I presume if anything he will put the tax up, so I'd best get mine sorted tomorrow........:money: