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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #15 on: 13 March 2016, 23:35:51 »
Mine costs £500 pa to tax - I don't view that as a particular issue, if I did I would have bought an older car with all the inevitable increased maintenance costs ;)
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #16 on: 13 March 2016, 23:38:31 »
Dbug, assuming this is the XJ in your profile, I'd consider £500 p.a. to be good value.



If nothing else for the amount of Her Majesty's Highway it takes up at any one time  ;)
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #17 on: 13 March 2016, 23:56:40 »
Quote from: jimmy944 on 13 March 2016, 23:38:31
Dbug, assuming this is the XJ in your profile, I'd consider £500 p.a. to be good value.



If nothing else for the amount of Her Majesty's Highway it takes up at any one time  ;)

It is and not disagreeing  ;D ;D ;D :y  And as the good Doc Opti says, if I put suspension in sports mode and use the paddle gear change, a semi usually results, and the £10 tax per week pales into insignificance compared to petrol costs  :y ;D ;D
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #18 on: 13 March 2016, 23:57:51 »
Why can't they charge the VED on the ACTUAL emission from YOUR car?  It is tested at the MOT station every year, including recording the mileage travelled since last MOT (if you want).

Admittedly, my mathematically retarded brain wouldn't be best suited to drawing-up the calculations required, but I'm sure someone with a modicum of number-crunching could do it.

I don't see why my highly maintained car which currently does around 6k a year and from the Emissions print-out runs on clouds should be charged at the same rate as an identical car which travels 30k a year and gets an oil change when the 'abuser' feels like it.

I suppose it would cause problems when buying/selling a vehicle? 

Incorporating VED into taxation on fuel would be another option, but that doesn't address the good car/bad car argument.
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #19 on: 14 March 2016, 12:05:29 »
Quote from: Broomies Mate on 13 March 2016, 23:57:51
Why can't they charge the VED on the ACTUAL emission from YOUR car?  It is tested at the MOT station every year...

MOT emissions and VED emissions are two completely different things.
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #20 on: 14 March 2016, 12:16:35 »
Quote from: TD on 13 March 2016, 18:10:42
Quote from: Doctor Opti on 13 March 2016, 18:01:55
Quote from: STEMO on 12 March 2016, 20:59:39
I have told my wife that her car must last at least 20 years, £0 tax will save a lot of money over that period. I may buy a zero tax car before 2017 as well.

£500 each year equates to £10 a week.

That's 3 pints of beer  ;) :)

Or 4 if you're a Northerner...
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #21 on: 14 March 2016, 14:07:15 »
Quote from: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 14 March 2016, 12:16:35
Quote from: TD on 13 March 2016, 18:10:42
Quote from: Doctor Opti on 13 March 2016, 18:01:55
Quote from: STEMO on 12 March 2016, 20:59:39
I have told my wife that her car must last at least 20 years, £0 tax will save a lot of money over that period. I may buy a zero tax car before 2017 as well.

£500 each year equates to £10 a week.

That's 3 pints of beer  ;) :)

Or 4 if you're a Northerner...

.. where a quarter of each pint is foam, so it amounts to the same thing. ;)
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #22 on: 14 March 2016, 14:59:27 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 14 March 2016, 12:05:29
Quote from: Broomies Mate on 13 March 2016, 23:57:51
Why can't they charge the VED on the ACTUAL emission from YOUR car?  It is tested at the MOT station every year...

MOT emissions and VED emissions are two completely different things.

Yes , the MOT emissions is just a basic check that the engine and setup aren't catastrophically bad at idle.
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #23 on: 14 March 2016, 23:50:53 »
Quote from: raywilb on 12 March 2016, 18:41:59
article in daily mirror tories contemplating £800 road tax on diesel motors

And so they should, they kick enough shit out of the back.  Get behind a 4 year old+ diesel and your lucky if your not left in a cloud of crap.
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #24 on: 15 March 2016, 09:44:33 »
Quote from: baggers on 14 March 2016, 23:50:53
Quote from: raywilb on 12 March 2016, 18:41:59
article in daily mirror tories contemplating £800 road tax on diesel motors

And so they should, they kick enough shit out of the back.  Get behind a 4 year old+ diesel and your lucky if your not left in a cloud of crap.
Yup, my shitbox sootchucker works better than dipping rear view mirror at night...
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #25 on: 15 March 2016, 09:49:38 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 14 March 2016, 12:05:29
Quote from: Broomies Mate on 13 March 2016, 23:57:51
Why can't they charge the VED on the ACTUAL emission from YOUR car?  It is tested at the MOT station every year...

MOT emissions and VED emissions are two completely different things.
True, and just think how you could fiddle the results if you used snake oil instead of petrol, or one of the many excellent suggestions in tother thread ;D

Government would be broke, sorry more broke, in no time at all ;D
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #26 on: 15 March 2016, 11:19:38 »
Quote from: Harris K Telemacher on 15 March 2016, 09:49:38
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 14 March 2016, 12:05:29
Quote from: Broomies Mate on 13 March 2016, 23:57:51
Why can't they charge the VED on the ACTUAL emission from YOUR car?  It is tested at the MOT station every year...

MOT emissions and VED emissions are two completely different things.
True, and just think how you could fiddle the results if you used snake oil instead of petrol, or one of the many excellent suggestions in tother thread

Just imagine how much easier it would be if we controlled fuelling via electronically controlled injectors. Then we could get a nerd to write some clever software to fiddle the test without any expensive additions.

What could possibly go wrong?
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #27 on: 15 March 2016, 12:27:43 »
Quote from: Nick W on 15 March 2016, 11:19:38
Quote from: Harris K Telemacher on 15 March 2016, 09:49:38
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 14 March 2016, 12:05:29
Quote from: Broomies Mate on 13 March 2016, 23:57:51
Why can't they charge the VED on the ACTUAL emission from YOUR car?  It is tested at the MOT station every year...

MOT emissions and VED emissions are two completely different things.
True, and just think how you could fiddle the results if you used snake oil instead of petrol, or one of the many excellent suggestions in tother thread

Just imagine how much easier it would be if we controlled fuelling via electronically controlled injectors. Then we could get a nerd to write some clever software to fiddle the test without any expensive additions.

What could possibly go wrong?
Well... now you mention it... ;D
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #28 on: 15 March 2016, 16:38:31 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 15 March 2016, 09:44:33
Quote from: baggers on 14 March 2016, 23:50:53
Quote from: raywilb on 12 March 2016, 18:41:59
article in daily mirror tories contemplating £800 road tax on diesel motors

And so they should, they kick enough shit out of the back.  Get behind a 4 year old+ diesel and your lucky if your not left in a cloud of crap.
Yup, my shitbox sootchucker works better than dipping rear view mirror at night...


 ;D   ;D
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Re: £ 800 car tax
« Reply #29 on: 16 March 2016, 02:12:12 »
No emissions means VW's will soon be zero VED rated then. ::) ::) ::)
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