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Chancellor's Autumn Statement
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He refers to the DVLA, who collect all the road tax. They are based in Swansea.
Which monitors and administers vehicle registration and driver licensing, in addition road tax, so needs to be paid for somehow.
It is possible to buy quite acceptable cars with zero or very limited road tax if that is your choice.
I quite like the idea of being able to influence choice through the road tax system, making it more expensive to have the more anti social cars from an emissions point of view."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »It is possible to buy quite acceptable cars with zero or very limited road tax if that is your choice..
Really?
I need a new car now.
I need to be able to carry 5 large adults plus luggage in comfort for long journeys, drive around 35000 miles per year, much of it on back roads and in wintry weather, so 4 wheel drive is helpful and a reasonably powerful engine is important for passing safely on rural roads.
Kindly list the cars I can get with no road tax that meet that criteria.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Is it possible to scrap Road Tax altogether, then increase the fuel tax to an acceptable level, then the people who use the road would only then pay for what they use?
Just a thought...
I have said this for years, do away with Road Tax, you display a car insurance disc and the ££££'s is put on the price of fuel, so if you use, you pay, just too simple I suppose, so NO Road Tax avoidance, and if they can run a vehicle without fuel
they will become very rich , very quickly. 0 -
Is it possible to scrap Road Tax altogether, then increase the fuel tax to an acceptable level, then the people who use the road would only then pay for what they use?
Just a thought...
Because people would get their driving even more down to reduce costs. At the moment they can't do that, even if the car is only used at the weekends, they pay the full whack.
Despite what politicians tell you, they don't want you to cut emissions, just pay more tax.
There was some discussion just before the last GE, that they might sychronise traffic lights so that vehicles spent less time travelling and less emissions. The reason it had been done as it was, was to keep maximum contributions to HMRC.0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »It is possible to buy quite acceptable cars with zero or very limited road tax if that is your choice.
And if we did that, they'd just increase the bands and do away with the zero band. Just like LPG for cars was cheap on duty, but as people started to switch to LPG, they increased the duty.0 -
And if we did that, they'd just increase the bands and do away with the zero band. Just like LPG for cars was cheap on duty, but as people started to switch to LPG, they increased the duty.
I know and if they ran on fresh air they would find some way to charge us. Road pricing and black boxes coming soon.
At £100 a tank to fill up the RFL is becoming less significant any way."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Really?
I need a new car now.
I need to be able to carry 5 large adults plus luggage in comfort for long journeys, drive around 35000 miles per year, much of it on back roads and in wintry weather, so 4 wheel drive is helpful and a reasonably powerful engine is important for passing safely on rural roads.
Kindly list the cars I can get with no road tax that meet that criteria.
You need a special car sir not an acceptable one. I take it you always travel fully laden?
Very much doubt it is a definitive list. Citroen DS5 would give you most things apart from 4WD.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/co2/co2-101-to-120-1.asp
As for safety on wintry roads slow down and drive within your limitations and for overtaking just be patient and only do it when it is safe to do so."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »I know and if they ran on fresh air they would find some way to charge us. Road pricing and black boxes coming soon.
At £100 a tank to fill up the RFL is becoming less significant any way.
Being retired I do not need to travel to work each day and find that now I only cover 1.500 miles a year which I am finding very expensive, and feel that I am, in part paying a lot for the few miles that I cover, my car is I agree my independence. I could of course sell my car and get a bus pass I suppose.0 -
Being retired I do not need to travel to work each day and find that now I only cover 1.500 miles a year which I am finding very expensive, and feel that I am, in part paying a lot for the few miles that I cover, my car is I agree my independence. I could of course sell my car and get a bus pass I suppose.
I know my mother in law is in the same boat. Independence is a big factor.
Get a bus pass anyway (if they run anywhere useful), might at least save the car park tax."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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