car tax rises

[FATBOY]

as from tomorrow

Engine size (cc) 6 months rate 12 months rate

Not over 1549 £66.00 £120.00

Over 1549 £101.75 (up £2.75) £185.00 (up £5.00)

bastards

[Wobba]

It never ceases to amaze me how they get away with ****ing the little guy in the arse, whilst the real polluters get away with it.

It amazes me more that we put up with it!

[wavy]

:( beyond a joke :(
but think our selves lucky given 6 months grace to 2p per litre on fuel

[DaveH]

What is a joke is that in the highest bracket its gone up to £440 and by 2010 will be £950 as ive just seen on the news

[DaveH]

Not that i'll ever have a car in that bracket and i suppose theyre preying on them partly because they know it can be afforded if those people are adament they want to drive those types of cars. I wish it was based on mileage as there are people who have second cars that only come out in the dry/ at weekends etc and do naff all miles that are in high tax brackets, at the same time theres fleets of tdi cars doing 40k a year, you tell me which pollutes more on average in a year!! You can get limited miles insurance so why not tax

[white16valver]

The answer to the tax issue is to buy an older car!

We're unlikely to ever get into this stupid emissions-based system, and if you went older, like classic old, you can get tax exemption too.

I remember someone on talkaudio worked out that running their 6 or 7 litre V8 yanktank actually worked out marginally cheaper than buying a new focus and watching it depreciate while doing about 30mpg more lol