New Car Tax Banding - you will be shocked!!

Medicine_Man_2

Folks, I have just checked out the future car tax I will be charged (Parkers Web site has a calculator by car) and I was shocked. I have a 1.6 Hyundai and the proposal is £260 next March!! Some 4 X 4's will be near to £1000 per year. The Government are bringing in another tax rise by hiding it as a green tax!!! I urge you to check out your car and be prepared to be shocked! We need to fight yet another tax rise by this evil government!

tomstickland

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/
It shows £185, £185 and £200 for the next 3 years for my 1991 BMW 318iS.

I've just tried a 2005 Focus ST though:
£210, £300, £550!

1990 Astra GTE:
£185,£185, £200.

2005 Astra VXR
£210,£300,£550

2000 Lotus Elise
£185, £185, £200

Porsche Cayenne 2.5 V6
£400,£440, £455

Porsche Cayenne 4.8 V8 Turbo
£400, £440, £950

Toyota Land Cruiser 3.0 2003 on
£440, £440, £950

MINI One 2003
£145, £175, £180

MINI Cooper 2003
£145, £175, £180

MINI Cooper S 2004
£210, £300, £310

Land Rover Discover TD5 E 5 door 2003
£210, £440, £455






This tax doesn't really make much sense considering that fuel duty should already cover Green taxation on a pro-rata basis with the amount consumed.

ie: buy a 5L V8 truck and drive it 500 miles versus a 1.0 Fiat and drive it 60,000 miles.

anewman

For my pre march 2001 car 1.3l (under 1.6l) I get £120 for each of the 3 years. I presume it will go up though.

Kez100

Mine is going down! £35 to £20.

MrsE_2

Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As my car is "born" already, will it stay as it is now? Is this only for cars built after it comes into effect?

Whats this first year & then after, is that if its new in that year?

Mine is a 57.

I've got a 4x4:(

Riq

Medicine_Man wrote: »

Folks, I have just checked out the future car tax I will be charged (Parkers Web site has a calculator by car) and I was shocked. I have a 1.6 Hyundai and the proposal is £260 next March!! Some 4 X 4's will be near to £1000 per year. The Government are bringing in another tax rise by hiding it as a green tax!!! I urge you to check out your car and be prepared to be shocked! We need to fight yet another tax rise by this evil government!

For the FIRST YEAR, not every year.

MrsE_2

Riq wrote: »

For the FIRST YEAR, not every year.

So as mine is already here & its first years tax has been bought, then even when the higher charges come in, I won't have to pay the first year cost?

Riq

Yes.

If you wandered into a Range Rover dealership you would pay £950 for the tax for the first year, then every year after that £440.

If you sold it, from my understanding the next owner would continue paying £440.



I just found out my mate's car, a Mazda RX-8 is in the top bracket!!
£950 first year then £440 there after.
It only has a 1.3 litre engine, it must churn out so many emissions to get those 192bhp!

nettles

Mine is currently £35. From March 09 it will be £30, and from March 10 £35? And from MArch 10 it has a section for first years tax (irrelevant to me) of £0! So mine is going to yo-yo!

MrsE_2

Damn, haven't they squeezed enough out of motorists with the fuel [STRIKE]robbery[/STRIKE] price hikes?

Are they trying to make it so as the ordinary working person cannot run a car & has to use public transport & so leave car ownership for the elite?

Or are they trying to stop us getting to work full stop:rolleyes:

I read the other day, the Tories are the new working class party, I think its true.

DKLS

Was expecting the worst but mine only goes up £15, not bad for something that does 23mpg