worried about your car tax? (budget)

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202

 

[Simster]

187

 

[chip]

262 - that's going to be expensive.

 

[surrey jim]

145

 

[Cian]

114 apparently.

Can I ask why (if I lived in the UK) it'd cost me a tenner more than a less efficient all round petrol car of the same emissions level? Diesel requires less effort to refine, etc...

 

[Bakesy]

Doesn't show mine, but a Toyota Camry Sport 3 litre V6 ain't gonna be cheap.

 

[moggy]

Doesn't show mine, but a Toyota Camry Sport 3 litre V6 ain't gonna be cheap.

better go to toyota and swap it for a yaris then

 

[Bakesy]

better go to toyota and swap it for a yaris then

You might be right.I only do about 2500 miles a year, so i f*** up the environment a damn site less than someone in a Fiesta doing 15000 a year, but who gets penalised?
If it all went on fuel, road tax included, those that use it, pay for it.
Surely that would be the fairest way.

This is just ANOTHER stealth tax.

 

[moggy]

is there anything left that aint taxable
no wonder so many people ar moving abroad.

if they could tax us for walking, using council pavements, i think they would.
shhhhhhhh, don't wanna give them any extra taxable ideas.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

143 for a 2.2 turbo diesel

My missus always sulks because my car with the bigger engine is cheaper to tax than her motor

 

[Curious Orange]

Ha, my '86 Golf they can't even give a value for!!

What is annoying is that the Road Tax renewal form doesn't state what band my car falls into - so what does the £175 I paid this year become next year. And is that an accurate reflection of how "polluting" the old girl is, does between 5-6k miles per annum, has run on unleaded for about 20 years, is no less fuel-efficient than its modern equivalent, and always passes its emission tests:

CO 2.867 % vol (limit 4.5)
HC 234 ppm (limit 1200)

?

 

[Cian]

234 is the carbon figure. You're gonna be f***ed, boyo...

My 87 Golf entirely failed the Irish emissions tests and I couldn't have been bothered to do the 'paraffin trick' (it was a diesel), so I just chucked it and bought a new car. Unfortunately, thats rather expensive.

 

[Curious Orange]

234 is the carbon figure. You're gonna be f***ed, boyo...

My 87 Golf entirely failed the Irish emissions tests and I couldn't have been bothered to do the 'paraffin trick' (it was a diesel), so I just chucked it and bought a new car. Unfortunately, thats rather expensive.

I don't really care, the car is cheap to run, reliable, and barely used (I cycle to work), so whatever they increase the tax to next year isn't going to be an issue for me. What is an issue is that the definition of "polluting" is too narrowly defined and doesn't account for the fact that how clean an engine runs is entirely down to how its tuned and how its then driven!

 

[Curious Orange]

234 is the carbon figure.

Yes, and 234 parts per million is precisely f***-all!!