Road Tax price change on 1st of May?

[ALFIE CONN]

If this is true, i need to find out if my wifes new car (bought yesterday with NO Tax, a 06 1.6 Ford Focus Automatic) is going to cost?

How do i find out the current and new costs?

P.S. I know she has to get tax to use the car this month, could she cash it back in n the last day of April and buy new Tax the next day? (that is if it is worth the hassle 3 wise?)

 

[BaldGuy]

what up or down??

 

[Jukie]

You should be able to find out from this page on Parker's site:

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/?deriv=29225#manu=2514&model=1321&deriv=29225

Hope this helps!

 

[ALFIE CONN]

I assume the charges would be changing due to the emissions of a vehicle?

 

[robert.saunders]

Reforms to vehicle tax

The rates for vehicle tax for cars registered on or after 1 March 2001 are currently split into seven different bands – A to G – depending on the CO2 emissions of the vehicle.

This system aims to ensure that vehicle tax more closely reflects the environmental costs of the vehicle, and to encourage the design and manufacture of more fuel-efficient vehicles.

What changes are being made to this system?

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a number of changes to strengthen this system, including:

• from 1 May 2009, an increase in the number of bands, bringing the total number to 13
• from 2010 the introduction of different vehicle tax rates for new cars in the first year of registration - this will provide a stronger environmental signal to the motorist at the time they purchase a new vehicle (this will not affect people buying second-hand cars)

As a result of these changes, no cars will be charged more than £5 extra vehicle tax in 2009. In 2010, higher emitting cars will be charged between £20 and £30 more and lower emitting cars will be charged up to £30 less.

Who will these changes affect?

The 13 new vehicle tax bands will only apply to cars registered on or after 1 March 2001. This is because there is no comprehensive emissions data available for cars registered before this date.

Link to all data (including bands/tables/charges etc) from the open.gov site (as mentioned above, the Parker's site is useful for vehicle lookup):

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_172916

 

[lil.smartie]

Argh, it's so unfair..... strop strop.....

My lil.smartie is only 118g CO2 but older than 01 so even though it's a 599cc I have to pay the same as a 1.5 £120 this year & £125 next. My forfour is 121g so 1g over the band so £120 this year & £90 next year. So it's all to do with pollution & congestion so why does my smaller, less polluting car cost more to tax???

Kate

 

[fuzzer]

Argh, it's so unfair..... strop strop.....

My lil.smartie is only 118g CO2 but older than 01 so even though it's a 599cc I have to pay the same as a 1.5 £120 this year & £125 next. My forfour is 121g so 1g over the band so £120 this year & £90 next year. So it's all to do with pollution & congestion so why does my smaller, less polluting car cost more to tax???

Kate

well .... maybe and maybe not

C220 CDI sport 177g/kg ----- 451 Smart fortwo 84 brabus. 123 g/kg

My cars spend most of their life in town and i drive them nice and easy.

C220 CDI : 31mpg average. Smart average : 32mpg.

so , in the real world im being charged £57 a year extra for 1mpg.

 

[Dieselman]

so , in the real world im being charged £57 a year extra for 1mpg.

But your cars are producing 244g/km and 205g/km, so really you should be paying a lot more.....

 

[Rory]

If this is true, i need to find out if my wifes new car (bought yesterday with NO Tax, a 06 1.6 Ford Focus Automatic) is going to cost?

How do i find out the current and new costs?

P.S. I know she has to get tax to use the car this month, could she cash it back in n the last day of April and buy new Tax the next day? (that is if it is worth the hassle 3 wise?)

They've done something to stop you cashing them in now - I think you have to be selling the car?

Anyway, I'm guessing a bit here, but wouldn't a 1,6 auto likely to be going up?

The changes were supposed to be from 1st April but they had to put them back as the budget is very late this year.

 

[219]

Ah yes , but the government recognises that those of us with pre-1973 cars are the truly green ones : a nice , environmentally friendly car like Jeremy Clarkson's W100 type 600 , or a W109 300SEL 6.3 ( same engine ) pays NO ROAD TAX AT ALL

There are some truly wonderful and 'green' cars out there

 

[A210AMG]

Ive looked at this and would be no worse off if I bought an ML55 over my current car (and tempting)

Might as well just by the biggest engine you can while you can and enjoy it.

 

[Steve_B]

Ive looked at this and would be no worse off if I bought an ML55 over my current car (and tempting)

Might as well just by the biggest engine you can while you can and enjoy it.

My feelings exactly

Road Tax is just one big con anyway....nothing to do with the miles that you drive and therefore nothing to do with emissions.....oh, wait a second, they already tax me for the mileage I do in petrol duty....

If the Government 'ring-fenced' my £800pa road tax bill for green issues, instead of using it to bail out the banks, I'd have an awful lot more sympathy for it.

 

[Dieselman]

If the Government 'ring-fenced' my £800pa road tax bill for green issues, instead of using it to bail out the banks, I'd have an awful lot more sympathy for it.

What would you want them to ring fence your income tax, NI and Vat for.?

All tax just goes into a big pot and is used from there.

Why do motorists think they deserve a special deal.?

 

[219]

Back when it used to be called the Road Fund Licence , there was a reasonable expectation that the revenue might actually be spent on the ROADS .

Now that it is called Vehicle Excise Duty .......

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Back when it used to be called the Road Fund Licence , there was a reasonable expectation that the revenue might actually be spent on the ROADS .

Now that it is called Vehicle Excise Duty .......

So does that mean it will be spent on exercises?

Oh right, excise.

So does that mean it will be spent on exorcisms?

 

[A210AMG]

I don't think I deserve a special deal but why then should a ML55 be in the same braket as mine or even better if I buy an older car with a huge engine tax is less? surely an older car produces more Co2. Just makes me think buy a bigger engine

The current prices I'm not that fussed either way to be honest hardly going to stop be driving what I want?


Steve B, I was at Mercedes Chester the other day picking up some parts and an ML63 was outside, looked superb, would love to have a go in one of them. My old boss had a E55 Estate (2004) and that was stunning performance.

I know the Aston is completly different but in a straight line how do they compare?


One day....

 

[219]

So does that mean it will be spent on exorcisms?

Maybe we can have exorcisms carried out on some of our politicians

Otherwise we could perhaps make effigees of them and stick pins in

Might not work but would probably be fun to do

 

[Dieselman]

I don't think I deserve a special deal but why then should a ML55 be in the same braket as mine

Because yours is a gas guzzling monster so gets to be in the most polluting band anyway.
There's always going to be a limit.

 

[Druk]

So does that mean it will be spent on exercises?

Oh right, excise.

So does that mean it will be spent on exorcisms?

Just as well it's not an organic tax, it would be spent on organisms or .....what else? let me think?

 

[219]

Why am I thinking of 'Barbarella' now ?