£415 Road Tax ! ?

JonFre · Mar 14, 2008

From the figures in yesterday's 'Times' newspaper when I renew the road tax on my 53 TD4 auto of 240g/km at the end of this month I will pay £210. However for 2009-2010 I will pay £415 as the car was registered post March 2001.
I am wondering if anyone can confirm these figures, if I am correct I am considering only taking a six month tax now and then a 12 month £210 in September. This way I will have 9 months of tax next year at today's rate.
Any ideas? Unfortunately I am too old to go to Australia and haven't enough money for Switzerland to accept me.

Pikey · Mar 14, 2008

yep your figures are correct

Optimus Prime · Mar 14, 2008

buy the td4 auto commercial and fit seats/windows. commercial is classed as a light goods vehicle so will only be £180. Hurrah !

JonFre · Mar 14, 2008

Optimus Prime said:
buy the td4 auto commercial and fit seats/windows. commercial is classed as a light goods vehicle so will only be £180. Hurrah !

Good luck to you for beating the system, something I try to do whenever I can. Although making the same pollution because the vehicle looks different it has a different tax band - a typical measure from the clowns running this country.

Optimus Prime · Mar 14, 2008

haven't done the conversion on mine (don't need to, have a car for wife and little people), but is cheaper kept as a van as it doesn't attract company car tax when used for work, along with a couple of other tax based benefits, so "applying the rules to the system" there too !

bonnybrook · Mar 14, 2008

I'm pretty sure it doesn;t apply.

Vehicle excise duty petrol/diesel cars from 2009. Band G only cars registered after 23 March 2006. Source HM Treasury,

More like £210

I can't even see a £415 tax rate on any band

Pikey · Mar 14, 2008

bonnybrook said:
I'm pretty sure it doesn;t apply.

Vehicle excise duty petrol/diesel cars from 2009. Band G only cars registered after 23 March 2006. Source HM Treasury,

More like £210

I can't even see a £415 tax rate on any band

Read the budget, it's clear enough the 2009 tax bands apply to all cars registered after March 2001

Northern Irelander · Mar 14, 2008

£415 thats scandalous!
My FL is 248g/km yet my other k-series is 184g/km. Both are same year and are in the same tax class. daft!
Is it only 2001 that are hard hit?

bonnybrook · Mar 14, 2008

redhand said:
Read the budget, it's clear enough the 2009 tax bands apply to all cars registered after March 2001

my apologies - assumed the Auto was band F not G at 240.

Yes indeed

415 - auto
300 - manaual

Thats the second hand price of Freelander nailed a bit more.

Thats a lot of "normal" motors caught in that trap. Normally they only apply it to relatively new cars. That makes most 7 years old cars with big engines hit that band.

Pikey · Mar 14, 2008

Well we will have to see I have emailed the treasury and asked for clarification. as last year Band G only applied to cars produced after Mar 2006. However they have changed band G into bands G to band M and they seem to have left the 2006 cutoff on band G at 2006 but there's no mention of the cutoff date for the new bands which according to the chart on the budget is for cars produced after Mar 2001. so either it's a misprint or a monumental cockup. either way I'll post the reply when it arrives.

Car VED Bands
A Up to 100
B 101-110
C 111-120
D 121-130
E 131-140
F 141-150
G 151-160
H 161-170
I 171-180
J 181-200
K 201-225
L 226-255
M Over 255

Darth Viking · Mar 14, 2008

Bugger. Date of first registration : 07-03-2001

Just looking at the V5 and it says : 'Number of seats, including driver: 6'

Any idea where the 6th seat might be hiding?

bonnybrook · Mar 14, 2008

Keep us posted on what the DVLA say. At 415 next year and 430 2010 becoming an expensive prospect!

Seems pretty unfair they will hit drivers for what will be 7-8 year old cars next year when this comes in.

spudy · Mar 14, 2008

proberlly no use to anyone but here's dvla's tax pricing link

motor vehical licencing bands

spudy · Mar 14, 2008

you can also use this link which tell's you when the tax is due and how much via the vehical's registration number...

dvla tax check

you can also check current mot and insurence detail's from the dvla website however it is minimum detail's retrived.

insurence check

mot check

bonnybrook · Mar 14, 2008

I've just emailed the Rt Hon A D

UK Parliament - alms

Complain bitterly about a tax on ordinary hard working folk.

£415 on top of fuel prices;.

mondo · Mar 14, 2008

gerrover it !

If yer av any sense yer gaylander'll be long gone by 2010 ffs

Darth Viking · Mar 14, 2008

If anybody thinks that it will make the blindest bit of difference, someone has started a petition;

Petition to: Remove the unfair and unjust retrospective Vehicle Execise Duty levy (back to 2001 year vehicles) as announced in the Budget on 12/3/08.

I'll sign, but I think the idiots in charge just ignore every one of these.

Dave

JonFre · Mar 14, 2008

redhand said:
Well we will have to see I have emailed the treasury and asked for clarification. as last year Band G only applied to cars produced after Mar 2006. However they have changed band G into bands G to band M and they seem to have left the 2006 cutoff on band G at 2006 but there's no mention of the cutoff date for the new bands which according to the chart on the budget is for cars produced after Mar 2001. so either it's a misprint or a monumental cockup. either way I'll post the reply when it arrives.

Would be grateful to learn your reply - assuming anyone at the treasury knows!

JonFre · Mar 14, 2008

Darth Viking said:
If anybody thinks that it will make the blindest bit of difference, someone has started a petition;

Petition to: Remove the unfair and unjust retrospective Vehicle Execise Duty levy (back to 2001 year vehicles) as announced in the Budget on 12/3/08.

I'll sign, but I think the idiots in charge just ignore every one of these.

Dave

Can they read?

Dutch RR · Mar 15, 2008

Whats the score folks, if you get a LPG conversion done, does it change your road tax rate or do you just save on fuel duty?

Cheers Dutch RR

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