Road tax and The Budget

go_braves

You can claim a refund on any full calendar months left on the tax disc. You get back a pro-rata proportion of the annual rate, not of the 6 month rate. In other words if you have 1 full month left on a 6 month disc, you will get back 1/12 of the annual rate, not 1/6 of the 6 month rate.

Last year some of the lower emissions-based tax classes went down in price after the budget. Those who had bought their new discs in the first part of March were able to get a full refund on that disc, and re-purchase a new disc at the lower rate, as long as it was all done before April 1st.

ianaphillips

I have just got a v6 2.8 turbo car a great polluter and to be honest if you spend £38.000 k on a car like mine who gives a damn about a few extra hundred pounds in road tax or road fund duty they are threatening to put on over the next few years and as i use it for work the more miles i drive the better tax breaks i get so pile a few more miles on to counteract the rise
It will take a lot more than that to stop people buying big engined cars and anyway who cares if you stoppped cows producing methane and buses driving around with 2 people on them this would reduce carbon dioxide emmisions.
Do you think we are totally stupid brownie

ianaphillips

saxmund wrote: »

Natty68, it's because a 5 yr old car is taxed on emissions and the top group for anything made before April 06 is for anything with emissions of 185g of CO2 or above. I pay the top rate on my 2 litre Alfa as well (213g) which is stupid when there are people whose cars are far more polluting but pay the same rate. What's wrong with a proper sliding scale, say 50p per gram of CO2?

you should get a 4x4 this was my idea since i paid £190 for a 2.0turbo car and a car that pollutes far more is only £20.00 more get that one instead and since its in the high rate of tax you dont get billed more for polluting.

ianaphillips

What you are missing

Mr A has a very economical car produces 159gm co2 he drives 35000 miles a year

Mr B has a gas guzzling and assumed to be polluting car produces 295gm co2 but he only drives 12000 miles a year

Who pollutes the most?????

Mr A and by a long way its about 50% more
:T

epz_2

Natty68 wrote: »

I'm still trying to figure out how my little 1.4 5 yr old Lanos cost me £190.00 last month to tax yet other people who have bigger cars than mine are only paying £175.00. I think Mr Brown got it totally round the wrong way with his road tax changes last year, and knowing my luck he will reduce the tax so that the higher engine will have to pay £190.00 and my little cc will come down just as I have forked out nigh on £200.00..grr!!!

your going to love the fact ill be paying £175 on my 2liter merc and soon will pay the same on my new clasic 5.5 liter one lol.

seriously though the enviromental costs in making these beautiful old cars is mosterious compaired to the few miles i do in them, i just hope they dont try to ramp up the costs on the older vehical on the pretext of the enviroment, new cars weigh a shed load and have stupid gimics like catalitic convertors{1} which doesnt really make them that much better.


!!1} look it up average cat lasts something like 3-7 year while it takes average driver 11 years to get over the damage the nasty substances in them do.

saxmund

ianaphillips wrote: »

you should get a 4x4

Not what I'm into... although I might something similar to epz and get an older sports car, possibly a TVR Chimaera. I like to let someone else pay the initial depreciation.

ariba10

alyth wrote: »

I've just bought a new car and will be road taxing it tomorrow, but I've still got a month to go on the other car's tax. Is it actually worthing claiming it back, in fact can you claim it back?

You can only claim back for full months. If it expires on the 30 April you must get it in before the end of march. If you send it by post it must be postmarked on or before the 31st March.