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Road Tax - bigsteve - 11-08-13
I spotted this on XJR Forum and thought it might interest memebers on here
I am not bothered about the ins and outs or pros and cons just passing it on
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48869
Ive signed in hope something might change :lol
Re: Road Tax - BBROWN1664 - 11-08-13
Quote:....but a Honda VFR making just 16.5g of CO2, pays £78 a year, nearly 4 times as
much.
Not quite sure I would agree with their sums. CO2 emmisions are roughly linear to the MPG the vehicle achieves unless the engine is way out of tune. As a VFR will do around 50MPG is will probably be around the same CO2 as the average 1.6ltr car these days (100g) rather than 16g.
Still signed it though but I would rather they dropped road tax altogether and added the equivalent of the average cost to petrol so if you don't use a vehicle, it makes no CO2 and you don't have to pay. Use a car/bike loads and pay proportionally.
Lets see. Lets say the average car does 40mpg these day and pays £140 RFL on average and does 10,000 miles a year.
10,000/40 = 250 gallons = 1135 ltrs of fuel
£140/1135 ltrs = 12p / litre added to fuel.
Yep people would go nuts initially but then realise the sums add up. For people like us, doing say 5000 miles a year on the fazer that does 45mpg we would pay £60 a year. Pretty much the same as we pay now except I only do about 1500 miles a year so would save money.
Re: Road Tax - dickturpin - 11-08-13
and we would get a few quid off all the foreign tourists that buy their fuel here.
Re: Road Tax - Lawrence - 11-08-13
Sod that, that'd cost me an extra £25/month! I'll stick with £60/year rather than £300 thanks.
Either way you can guarantee it'll never be dropped, you don't have any choice but to pay it.
Re: Road Tax - nick crisp - 11-08-13
Or reduce road tax overall so it reflects what they actually spend on road maintenance - oh wait, we wouldn't have road tax at all if they did that would we? Or maybe we could have a pot hole tax levied against local authorities to be used to help reduce road tax...
Re: Road Tax - Lawrence - 11-08-13
We don't have road tax, we have vehicle exise duty
The tax you pay goes into a big pot along with income tax etc and get divided up to pay for everything.
Re: Road Tax - Mick-H - 11-08-13
I reckon we should ban road tax, put an extra few pence on petrol, then them that use the road pay for the privilege and it also clears up the problem of those that don't bother to pay their road tax in the first place.
Just a thought.
Re: Road Tax - Lawrence - 13-08-13
Why? When they can just put a few pence extra on fuel and keep the VED in place?
Re: Road Tax - Punkstig - 13-08-13
(11-08-13, 11:14 PM)Mick-H link Wrote: I reckon we should ban road tax, put an extra few pence on petrol, then them that use the road pay for the privilege and it also clears up the problem of those that don't bother to pay their road tax in the first place.
Just a thought.
You'll still pay for it in the end because shopping bills will go up extortionately to cover all shop logistics!