New car tax bands

[A Century United]

With the new tax bands looming, and looming for all cars, not just newer ones, here is a useful tax-band calculator so you can find out just how much less your car is going to be worth when you are paying £450 tax on it. :stunned:

Parkers Tax Guide


This has got to be one of the stupidest things this government has yet done, retroactive laws are undemocratic, retroactive taxes are undemocratic and punitive. I am actually a strong believer in using taxes to change consumer behaviour, but taxing something you bought sometimes years before the tax was imposed is just going to cause massive resentment, and damage the whole Green case.

 

[Ricey]

Mine goes from £145 this year to £180 in 2010. Unbelieveable!!!

 

[MK Shrimper]

£9 rise, not too shabby.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

What date does the rise apply from next year?
Mine's up end of this month & I was thinking of just getting 6 months as my insurance is due at the same time too.
Would a year's tax up to 31/07/09 be a better option for me if I buy it now?

 

[MK Shrimper]

What date does the rise apply from next year?
Mine's up end of this month & I was thinking of just getting 6 months as my insurance is due at the same time too.
Would a year's tax up to 31/07/09 be a better option for me if I buy it now?

Yep, April 2010.

 

[GNH]

£430 in 2010...............oh dear


Why the penalty for newer cars? Surely the newer the car the more efficient/less polluting the engine will be so it seems the wrong way round to me? Stupid Goverment

 

[osymandus]

Mine goes down by £25 ??

 

[Mr. Benedict]

£430 in 2010...............oh dear


Why the penalty for newer cars? Surely the newer the car the more efficient/less polluting the engine will be so it seems the wrong way round to me? Stupid Goverment

Probably because the emissions data for cars older than 2001 are not recorded anywhere and the manufacturers may not hold the data either...

Thankfully mine only goes up by £20, although whether my motor will last another two years in another question!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Mine goes down by £25 ??

Your donkey sorted out it's wind problem then fella?

 

[HUTTON]

Mine's gone up £6 :'(

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Mine's gone up £6 :'(

Oh, the financial agony that will cause....! ;)

 

[HUTTON]

Oh, the financial agony that will cause....! ;)

Thats for half a year, if I wanted to tax it the full year £4 :nope: :'(

 

[Ricey]

Oh, the financial agony that will cause....! ;)

Remember the saying look after the pennies cause the pounds look after themselves ;)

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Thats for half a year, if I wanted to tax it the full year £4 :nope: :'(

Taxing your car for a full year is probably a bad idea considering the amount of time it spends in the garage being fixed... ;)

 

[HUTTON]

Taxing your car for a full year is probably a bad idea considering the amount of time it spends in the garage being fixed... ;)

True :headbang:

 

[Sherif H]

£430 in 2010...............oh dear


Why the penalty for newer cars? Surely the newer the car the more efficient/less polluting the engine will be so it seems the wrong way round to me? Stupid Goverment

Same here!! Disgraceful! The Government will not drive me (excuse the pun) to get rid of the Scooby though...never!!

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Same here!! Disgraceful! The Government will not drive me (excuse the pun) to get rid of the Scooby though...never!!

From playing with that car tax calculator with a few random cars it would seem that unless you want a small box with all the power of a stretched elastic band, you're looking at a large increase on your car tax.

I reckon that's a tad unfair on families, who often need a bigger car, which will invariably require a more powerful engine.
Or perhaps the government truly believes that you can comfortably fit a family of five into a fiat seicento.... :unsure:

 

[RobM]

This isn't the first piece of legislation to be made retrospective. When the Child Support Agency got their clutches into me, they overturned my Court Order @ £200 a month for my lad and decided to make it...£498 a month. That was in 1994. Thankfully I'm all paid up now but it was something of a struggle, I had 18 months with no hot water or heating (apart from gas fire and shower) as I couldn't afford to buy a new boiler. Not fun.

 

[A Century United]

From playing with that car tax calculator with a few random cars it would seem that unless you want a small box with all the power of a stretched elastic band, you're looking at a large increase on your car tax.

I reckon that's a tad unfair on families, who often need a bigger car, which will invariably require a more powerful engine.
Or perhaps the government truly believes that you can comfortably fit a family of five into a fiat seicento.... :unsure:

I drive a 406 HDi estate with the 110 BHP engine - my tax will be £120 for a year, so it is possible to have a family car with a modest amount of poke and still save money (certainly a lot more poke than the waddling 90 BHP version anyway!)

 

[A Century United]

This isn't the first piece of legislation to be made retrospective. When the Child Support Agency got their clutches into me, they overturned my Court Order @ £200 a month for my lad and decided to make it...£498 a month. That was in 1994. Thankfully I'm all paid up now but it was something of a struggle, I had 18 months with no hot water or heating (apart from gas fire and shower) as I couldn't afford to buy a new boiler. Not fun.

Which I think underlines the point that retrospective legislation is both undemocratic and unfair.