Tax groan
They really don't give you much time to book in a MOT and then get your Tax disc do they?
A touch over two weeks and a whopping £400 to tax it for the year. :cry:
Yes but you forget that our tax goes on useful things like;
Upkeep of our excellent motorway system
Smooth tarmac on our dual carriageways and A roads
The wonderful Traffic Patrols that now can been seen
The happy smiling faces at the DVLA branch offices
Of course it is NEVER wasted on;
Green reports damming 4x4's
Police cameras
Waste of time road works
Funding a computer system that will make the issuing of tax over the internet easier.
And it is NEVER, EVER transferred across to other areas, like health, local labour run councils etc.
I think you need to look at the quality of service you get for your measley £400! Then you would see and understand that it is, infact a bargin!
Yours Helpfully
Spider1V
Certainly a bargain compared to resident parking permit.
£400 to use the roads, £200 to park outside me house,, :lol:
Glad I dont live in " Boris land on sea ".....
Twodogs
Joe, does your G have a co2 rating? or did you just slip by. It's a bit like vehicles made prior to '73 - tax free.
The trouble with the co2 rating system is that it is so easy to increase the tax year on year as a green tax, you won't upset anyone and it's a vote winner.
Joe, does your G have a co2 rating? or did you just slip by. It's a bit like vehicles made prior to '73 - tax free.
The trouble with the co2 rating system is that it is so easy to increase the tax year on year as a green tax, you won't upset anyone and it's a vote winner.
Roly,
On my V5C they rated it as 2.480 and as for me the reg date is july 01
Joe
What does that mean? Top shelf? I've never seen a v5 with it on
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On my V5C they rated it as 2.480 and as for me the reg date is july 01
Joe
Sure that isn't CO emmision level?
CO2 is showen under the clylinder capacity, rather then in the ehaust emissions section.
the tax on motorists is a disgrace, road tax, petrol duty even tax on compulsory insurance, whats worse is that these are regressive taxes, they affect the poor disproportionatly
Realistic increases in income tax and re-distributory taxes like capital gains tax would be a much fairer way of paying for hospitals, education and social services not to mention the Police, Prisons and other vital institutions that we take for granted in our civilised land.
the tax on motorists is a disgrace, road tax, petrol duty even tax on compulsory insurance, whats worse is that these are regressive taxes, they affect the poor disproportionatly
Realistic increases in income tax and re-distributory taxes like capital gains tax would be a much fairer way of paying for hospitals, education and social services not to mention the Police, Prisons and other vital institutions that we take for granted in our civilised land.
Agreed. But the UK has traditionally favoured the kind of fiscal dumping that puts comparatively lower taxes on the rich so that it attracts them to reside in the land and higher ones on those who are not mobile to choose where they live -i.e., the middle and lower classes.
[quote="Spider1V
On my V5C they rated it as 2.480 and as for me the reg date is july 01
Joe
Sure that isn't CO emmision level?
CO2 is showen under the clylinder capacity, rather then in the ehaust emissions section.
Ok, thanks....
in section 4 of my V5C - aka log book, under v.7 CO2(g/km) they have rated it as 400G/km, so technically I am spewing out 400g of CO2 per KM?
This is great! - think of all those plants I am helping, who need CO2 to live and help photosynthesis, to produce more Oxygen! In fact my next discussion with a fundigreenie will be G500 v’s a Pious, I ACTUALLY HELP the environment, it is you wou is killing it with smaller emissions……
:P
Spider1V - G500 helper of mother nature
no fiscal"dumping" is a product of Thatcherism both in its original and current "caring" form.
I am old enough to remember when Dennis Healey promised to squeeze the rich so hard that the pips would squeal now its the motorist being squeezed and G500 and G55 owners doing the squealing.
G500 and G55 owners doing the squealing.
Like a pig baby, like a pig! :cry:
We shouldn't moan too much, in Italy you pay maybe $5k for road tax for a 5L engine, certainly anything over 2L is prohibitively expensive for most folk. Thus the 200GE was created. Also Norway has massive road tax for a G. And in the US they can't import diesel Gs.
But petrol is bl**dy expensive.
We shouldn't moan too much, in Italy you pay maybe $5k for road tax for a 5L engine, certainly anything over 2L is prohibitively expensive for most folk. Thus the 200GE was created. Also Norway has massive road tax for a G. And in the US they can't import diesel Gs.
But petrol is bl**dy expensive.
Roly, why do you put examples of the most expensive places for motorists? Why do you not say anything about Spain? I pay € 155 road tax (for the GWagen) and diesel is currently at € 1.11/litre. For the SEAT Marbella, € 58 road tax and € 1.08/litre UL. And I have all this wonderful countryside to drive. Beat that! :lol:
Where in Spain are you? Was thinking of going to visit a friend in Nerja.
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Where in Spain are you? Was thinking of going to visit a friend in Nerja.
I live 22 miles north of Madrid. Nerja is in the Malaga province, 40 miles north of Africa :lol:
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Shame that I am no longer a UK resident... otherwise my signature would have been there!
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Boris land on Sea is far better for G owners than Ken on Sea.... but the £400 tax thing is a Brown on Sea so has nothing to do with being in London....