New VED road tax rules: plan ahead for 2017 UK car tax changes

Marvel1

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/consumer-news/88361/tax-disc-changes-everything-you-need-to-know-about-uk-road-tax#

arcon5

About time a fairer system was introduced.

One that doesn't punish to poor who can't afford nice new shiny cars that benefit from little to no tax.

+1 to the chancellor.

londonTiger

lol, considering a new car is £20,000 I like how MSE is suggesting people plan the purchasse of their new car either before or after the tax changes.

Car tax can vary from £100-£300. The norm being around the £200 mark. It's a bit ridiculous when you're forking out 20 grand for a car and then you're counting the pennies for road tax.

Marvel1

arcon5 wrote: »

About time a fairer system was introduced.

One that doesn't punish to poor who can't afford nice new shiny cars that benefit from little to no tax.

+1 to the chancellor.

I follow that category, I was looking for used recently and wanted max £30 tax, but it was only Diesel, as I only do low mileage, it's no use to me. I tried Petrol, but they were for newer cars.

My best choice was in Band D or £110.00 (bit better than my previous £180.00).

Iceweasel

Lots of gov.uk's incentive schemes which turn out to be to well taken up get reviewed / slashed when they turn out to be costly to the chancellor.

Just look at what has happened to the solar panel generation and feed in tariffs.

Anyone contemplating a brand new car in the next year or two will definitely need to take the new rules into account.

But like any other changes there will be those who bleat after the event that they didn't know about it.

We still have many who have not yet realised that any unexpired tax is no longer transferable to a new owner.

Along with the UK's pointlessly complicated number plate system, designed to encourage people to change cars more frequently in order to show off how successful they are in having a a vehicle with the current year indicator - I reckon there will be increased sales of the low-tax under the current system cars after the 1st of March 2017 but before 1st April 2017.

There is also likely to be an increase in the 'expensive' cars costing over £40K

It doesn't bother me - good luck to anyone who can afford a brand new car - even a little 'cheap' one.

Minrich

Why do people buy brand new ? Why not ex demo or a year old and save a stack of cash ? Is it just for the options that can be added ?

Marktheshark

Another farce, just put it on fuel, the polluter pays then.
The granny that does the shopping run of 5 miles a week currently pays the same as a rep doing 200k a year in the same car.

Iceweasel

Minrich wrote: »

Why do people buy brand new ? Why not ex demo or a year old and save a stack of cash ? Is it just for the options that can be added ?

When you can easily get a total of up to 23% 'contribution' from the dealer, the manufacturer, and the finance company, for some makes/models, the difference between brand new and nearly new can be very little.

I used to buy at 2 year old and sell at 5 years old - not any more.

Iceweasel

Marktheshark wrote: »

Another farce, just put it on fuel, the polluter pays then.
The granny that does the shopping run of 5 miles a week currently pays the same as a rep doing 200k a year in the same car.

I doubt that granny would be very happy with that rep taking her car to do those miles with it.

Car_54

Marktheshark wrote: »

Another farce, just put it on fuel, the polluter pays then.
The granny that does the shopping run of 5 miles a week currently pays the same as a rep doing 200k a year in the same car.

Not quite. At £1.00 a litre and 40 mpg the rep pays £16,500 in VAt and duty and the old dear pays £22.

lisa110rry

I gather that already registered cars will not be affected, so my 2002 CR-V and the 1999 SLK will not be affected.

Reckon my husband's Motability vehicle is exempt at source.