Road tax

[BRG75]

*Band K includes cars that have a CO2 figure of more than 225g/km but were registered before 23 March 2006.

Can you please say where the above is published.

A check that I have now done was on the "Vehicle Certification Agency" website (part of the DVLA ?)

This calculates CO2 outputs for vehicles first registered between 2001 & 2017.
A 2.5 auto comes out as 249, tax band L £710.

I didn't see anything about exemption for pre 2006

I will however, double check this web site later today

Thank you

[BRG75]

Further to my post No. 21, various websites (including DVLA) show an asterisk against band k, confirming that it includes over 225g/km cars, registered before 23rd March 2006.

In particular, is DVLA's form V149; although the only one I found is clearly out of date, going by the annual cost shown.

Regards

Mike

[Lancpudn]

Just been catching up on the VED tax bands from 1st April 2024. https://www.petebarden.co.uk/news/ar...pril-2022.html

[VVC-Geeza]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Just been catching up on the VED tax bands from 1st April 2024. https://www.petebarden.co.uk/news/ar...pril-2022.html

How can any increase be justified? I've never known the roads in a worse state of repair with potholes everywhere.As usual the motorist will bend over and pay it.A rebate would be more appropriate.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by VVC-Geeza

How can any increase be justified? I've never known the roads in a worse state of repair with potholes everywhere.As usual the motorist will bend over and pay it.A rebate would be more appropriate.

Because VED is no longer totally linked to road construction and repairs. The estimate is 20% of VED income. Therefore the huge increases is to raise more income for the other 80%.
Kev

[VVC-Geeza]

Originally Posted by torque2me

Because VED is no longer totally linked to road construction and repairs. The estimate is 20% of VED income. Therefore the huge increases is to raise more income for the other 80%.
Kev

I appreciate that all VED income is not ringfenced for the roads.My question is why do we tolerate it without any form of protest when the roads are crumbing on such a wide scale.
If only the motorists realised how powerful they are (as a body) and acted on it.We get what we deserve,our trousers taken down.

[wraymond]

Even if the so-called Motoring Organisations presented a united front in defence of their only customers it would make no difference. The country is skint and our profligate government is desperate to buy influence abroad. Ideas above station don't help. All this is desperation to follow what is perceived as a money trail ie: climate dogma. We now face possible classic car extinction by stealth.

[VVC-Geeza]

Originally Posted by wraymond

Even if the so-called Motoring Organisations presented a united front in defence of their only customers it would make no difference. The country is skint and our profligate government is desperate to buy influence abroad. Ideas above station don't help. All this is desperation to follow what is perceived as a money trail ie: climate dogma. We now face possible classic car extinction by stealth.

So skint Ray we can still find 8M a day to keep unprocessed migrants in hotels.

I was thinking of a protest a little more 'French style'

[wraymond]

Yes Mick, those figures are scary. Even scarier when you consider it is, essentially, being borrowed. At scarier rates from The Markets. Our 'leaders' are ignoramuses. Neither a borrower or a lender.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by VVC-Geeza

I appreciate that all VED income is not ringfenced for the roads.My question is why do we tolerate it without any form of protest when the roads are crumbing on such a wide scale.
If only the motorists realised how powerful they are (as a body) and acted on it. We get what we deserve, our trousers taken down.

I protest to my MP on a regular basis. It is often due to his efforts that we get any resurfacing done at all (good photo op for him by the way). My "singular" protest gets me nowhere.

Yes, the motoring fraternity could be a huge pressure group but why are we not seeing that? As I have posted in previous threads, no political party is courting the motorist and the only way for the situation to change would be for a new party to be on the ballot paper with aim 1 to represent the motorist. Aim 2, get rid of the parliament duffers. Aim 3, vastly reduce the Civil Service (Blob).
Kev