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Car Forum / UK Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (UK group) / March 2007Tosspot Brown
road tax up to £300, rising to £400 next year. Like the previous poster I have a 2.0 TD suzuki grand vitara, I get nearly 40mpg and I do very few miles per year (approx 4000) However a car is essential, we are 130 miles from the nearest city, 90 miles from the nearest railway and decent hospital. Our roads are pot-holes and narrow/twisty. I now view it as a rural tax..surely that is illegal under EEC human rights rules? > road tax up to £300, rising to £400 next year. For band G. Not for 4x4s. The VED on my own 4x4 will rise a fiver over each of the next three years, from the current £110/yr. > Like the previous poster I have a 2.0 TD suzuki grand vitara Which isn't band G. It's Band F. Which is going up a tenner. > I get nearly 40mpg and I do very few miles per year (approx 4000) > However a car is essential, we are 130 miles from the nearest city, 90 > miles from the nearest railway and decent hospital. I'd suggest that that's irrelevant - If you do so few miles annually, you obviously don't go there much. <shrug> If it's an issue, move house. Or buy a more economical vehicle. > Our roads are pot-holes and narrow/twisty. You poor love. What's that got to do with the price of fish? > I now view it as a rural tax..surely that is illegal under EEC human > rights rules? Don't be so f.cking pathetic. > David Harvey (adharvey@tiscali.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much >> I now view it as a rural tax..surely that is illegal under EEC human >> rights rules? > > Don't be so f.cking pathetic. I agree, human rights, right to privacy and you loose all sympathy Check which group your car is in before slagging off Stalin > Which isn't band G. It's Band F. Which is going up a tenner. Also bear in mind that the bands system is only implemented for vehicles registered on or after 1st March 2001. Band G is only applicable to vehicles registered on or after 23rd March 2006. There are tax tables on the following link, although not up-to-date with the new budget yet. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524 It's not entirely clear but it looks like private/light goods vehicles registered before 1st March 2001 (all of mine) still stay at one of two rates. A shame really as my audi would cost me £140 instead of £180 if it was treated under post-March 2001 rules.  SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! > There are tax tables on the following link, although not up-to-date > with the new budget yet. > > http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle > /DG_10012524 This one is - http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/taxlegal/9_15/vehicle-excise-duty-rates- 2007-8.shtml http://snipurl.com/1dm8t > It's not entirely clear but it looks like private/light goods vehicles > registered before 1st March 2001 (all of mine) still stay at one of > two rates. *ding* - both of 'em going up a fiver a year for the next three years. > *ding* - both of 'em going up a fiver a year for the next three years. Yes, I know they're going up (although I hadn't really bothered to check by how much), I meant there are still only two rates for cars prior to those dates, one for below a certain threshold, another for on or above the threshold. It'll be fun to see which family runabouts will be paying more VED than my honking great big 6-wheeler ;-) SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! > It'll be fun to see which family runabouts will be paying more VED > than my honking great big 6-wheeler ;-) Well my Volvo V70 Estate will, at 234 g/km it falls into the "Gas Guzzler" band. Even though it averages 32 mpg. At least my ancient 4.0 litre V8 Range Rover stays in the £180 band so that evens it out a little. SignatureRegards Barry > *ding* - both of 'em going up a fiver a year for the next three years. BTW I think it's going up three times by a fiver for the next *2* years, once with pretty much immediate effect, then again in about a year, and once more in a further year. Doesn't make much difference either way. SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! |
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