Omg road tax

[Fazerider]

Well, if the sideshow's over, I'll just say I agree with Pilgrim's comment that it's not bad value compared with a car.
The 54mpg I get from the Fazer works out at just over 120g CO2/km, but a (post March 2001) car with emissions in that range would just hit the £105 level of road tax. So from that point of view, £57 for a 600cc bike tax disc could be seen as reasonable… even going some way towards recognising that we benefit other road users by reducing congestion.

[Dead Eye]

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Of course the ridiculous thing is that I pay £0 for 12 months vehicle tax on my classic bike and even better than that, two mate have classic cars and also pay £0 for their vehicle tax/

One is a 3.0 Capri and the other has a MK1 Lotus Cortina and a Corsair with a transplanted modernish V8 engine with pretty much just the original bodywork left!

Gas guzzlers indeed yet their VED is free - work that one out!

Quite like the Ford Capri, stock or modified? Pics ftw
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From memory it's a metallic blue 1970 (ish) face lifted model with 4 headlights, haven't seen it for a while but I think it's mostly stock with a few mechanical upgrades knowing him. He's not into facebook so no easy to get pics but I'll ask when I see him.
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Ah, sorry misread it and thought you owned the Capri, I'll blame it on the rum from being a pirate and hijacking the thread  :hijack :lol

[ddtwelve]

Oh what fun this site can be hehe, 
Tiberius it's a tiger 1050 wish I'd gone fir the 800 now  :'(

[Tiberius Onklevaart]

Roger

[VNA]

What was all that about?

Couple of things annoy me about road tax, I bought my used 2002 VW in 2005 just before they introduced the new system.  And what did they do, they introduced it retrospectively.  So I bought an ordinary car, knowing how much it would cost me to buy a tax disc, then they reworked the road tax system and wacked my tax right up.  How can that be fair?

Then I've got my bike, of which again I have to pay road tax if I wanna use it.  Funny thing is I can only use one at a time, so why am I paying road tax twice over, same for third party insurance.

Scrap The Road Tax and stick it on fuel.  That way the more you use, the more you pay.  Fair for everybody, and yup it's gonna make my think when it comes time to change the car.

[Dave48]

VED,VAT, tax on everything. Then you have all the cost of administration (DVLA). There are too many bands/tiers of duty containing too many anomalies.
My 1951 25cc Cyclemaster: Tax exempt/MOT exempt
Fazer 600: Tax £31-35 for 6 months
Fazer Thou: Tax about £74 per annum
Fiat Panda 1.1 Tax £30 per annum.
If  we are to be taxed for road USE then,yes, put a penny or so on cost of fuel to pay for pollution/wear & tear( or whatever they really spend it on!)
If for vehicle OWNERSHIP I suppose we are stuck with present system, with all its anomalies, together with all the associated admin costs.
At least by putting the cost on fuel it  prevents the tax disc dodgers benefitting.
Perhaps show a disc for insurance & one for MOT???-think they do something like this in Eire?