Road tax

[daverichardson]

Well

Just paid £500 smackers to those lying cheating morally corrupt bunch of lunatics that think they are better than me who masquerade as our public servants, for the joy of driving a beautiful piece of engineering on some of the worse roads in Europe for one year

ho hum

d

 

[hodroyd]

Join the disgruntled club then Dave..!!

 

[CC4200]

It's annoying to be sure, but £500 road tax plus £500 insurance is a small daily price to pay for the pleasure ... Heck young colleagues pay £1500+ just for insurance

 

[daverichardson]

Hey My insurance was less than £150!! Honest see my other thread on insurance
d

 

[CC4200]

Where do you live Dave? An isolated moated castle with 100years NCD and less than 1000 miles per year???


Paul

 

[MAF260]

I'm confused - why are those with 2004 MY cars paying £500 for road tax? The cut off point for the higher tax is March 2006 from memory.

 

[CC4200]

True £285 pa, but robbing gigs charge £156.75 for 6 months ! Tax on tax


Paul

 

[MAF260]

Barely more than half the £500 being bandied about - makes it seem like a bargain now!

The 10% surcharge for 6-monthly tax will be reduced to 5% later this year when tax discs are abolished. Motorists will also be able to pay monthly for the same 5% surcharge.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/direct-debit-and-abolition-of-the-tax-disc

 

[CC4200]

Seems a crazy backward step with no visual tax disc, what happens if DD payment from someone's bank fails? as happened to a colleague with unpaid insurance direct debits.



Paul

 

[zagatoes30]

Well

Just paid £500 smackers to those lying cheating morally corrupt bunch of lunatics that think they are better than me who masquerade as our public servants, for the joy of driving a beautiful piece of engineering on some of the worse roads in Europe for one year

ho hum

d

Think yourself lucky it would be over double that over here in Dublin

 

[bigbob]

Barely more than half the £500 being bandied about - makes it seem like a bargain now!

The 10% surcharge for 6-monthly tax will be reduced to 5% later this year when tax discs are abolished. Motorists will also be able to pay monthly for the same 5% surcharge.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/direct-debit-and-abolition-of-the-tax-disc

So that's about 10% APR - not bad when you borrow at 3%.

Will be taking all my tax discs off on 1 Oct.

 

[RSM Masser]

Halfrauds will be reeling - another tacky father's day present destined for the dustbin! think of all the tax disc holders going for scrap!

 

[conaero]

Well

Just paid £500 smackers to those lying cheating morally corrupt bunch of lunatics that think they are better than me who masquerade as our public servants, for the joy of driving a beautiful piece of engineering on some of the worse roads in Europe for one year

ho hum

d

Just got mine through this morning, £500 FFS!

At lease I stuffed it to Chichester Council and got them to pay for a new wheel and tire last year, had to go to court 4 times mind you as the cheating, lying b@stards tried all the tricks to make me give up....but they obviously didn't know just how persistent I am.....well, they do now.

 

[outrun]

Both mine are late 05 so just made it into the "cheap" tax cut off. It's odd that this matters to me given what else I spend looking after them but for some reason, I'm happy to hand out money to people that are looking after the cars but not at all happy to hand it to the government for the pleasure of potholes, bumps, roadworks and attitude. Go figure!

 

[Tilum]

Will be taking all my tax discs off on 1 Oct.

I planned on doing exactly that too Bob

 

[hodroyd]

Don't throw them away, they may suddenly delay it due to some computer problem at HQ..!! I might just frame mine and put it on the wall in the loo..!!

 

[Tilum]

Don't throw them away, they may suddenly delay it due to some computer problem at HQ..!! I might just frame mine and put it on the wall in the loo..!!

Yep, I wouldn't chuck them away just in case... well not until they had expired anyway.

 

[QP4Me]

Road Tax is around euro1,800 pa here for the QP. At least you have roads, not tarred over bog roads.

 

[Parisien]

£500.........yup....getting all us wealthy types by the short and curlys..........soon go the way of the RoI or worse, Italy..........up to €6000...........


P

 

[RSM Masser]

It riles me like Matt says - I have 5 smacked up wheel rims caused by pothole damage and only 1 successful claim from the council - they make it so difficult to claim and try to wriggle out of every possible corner - I won the last one but what an effort!
How hum - perhaps I should buy a Prius and live with it - instead I shall run a 400bhp V8 supercar and say b0ll0x to you all

Ps and pay for the privelidge