(04-03-14, 04:16 PM)Grahamm link Wrote:We have a staged system of vehicle taxation in this country where the most polluting or most damaging vehicles pay the most tax. All I'm asking is that that "staging" be applied to motorcycles as well, not least because they cause less congestion which is a positive benefit to road use.
Out of interest do you want stages set up purely for motorbikes, or for motorbikes to use the car stages?
Tax rates for a new, top band car are £1065 for the first year and then £490/year. I'm guessing a Fazer 600 would be about the middle, which would be somewhere in the region of £150-£200/year if similar bands were set up for bikes.
Or should they use the exact same bands as cars, in which case my 1100 would just about fall into the £10/pa group. Anything below a litre would be free, in which case why bother with the stages?