Alastair Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Just got my car tax bill in £435 for 12 months.... For that I want someone sweeping the road in front of me, repairing potholes before I get there and clearing snow / slush without spraying salt over the car.... Oh and maybe let me raise the sped limits ..
BalliSTIc Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Just got my car tax bill in £435 for 12 months.... For that I want someone sweeping the road in front of me, repairing potholes before I get there and clearing snow / slush without spraying salt over the car.... Oh and maybe let me raise the sped limits .. I feel your pain buddy... especially with the extra evenue they're screwing out of 20% VAT on fuel. 132.9ppl Vpower. Ugh!
tomwrx08 Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 yip it aint nice but whats worse is the pre 06 55 plate hawkeyes are only 235 for 12months. shitty fcuking robbing goverment ar5eholes
mystery machine Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Car tax has to be the most grossly unfair tax we're forced to pay, especially now that it is now effectively an 'environmental' charge. How can a CO2 tax be fairly applied to a vehicle without taking usage into account, bearing in mind that a car produces absolutely zero CO2 while parked with the engine off?! Consider these two cases... Case one (my Scooby): Impreza Hawkeye STI Avg CO2 emissions: 257 g/km Annual mileage: 9K miles (14.5K km) Annual CO2 emissions = 3.7 tonnes Annual 'car tax' = band 'M' = £435 Case two (high mileage driver): Ford Mondeo 2.0L Avg CO2 emissions: 187 g/km Annual mileage: 25K (40K km) Annual CO2 emissions = 7.5 tonnes Annual car tax = band 'J' = £235 So Mondeo man chucks out twice as much CO2 as me, yet I'm paying twice as much tax?! OK, then you might argue that we need a road tax that takes into account mileage, fuel economy, driving style, etc? Well, we already have that - it's called "fuel duty" (+ rising VAT!). Therefore, even if you do believe that human-generated C02 is the main cause of climate change (and I remain unconvinced), then the example above illustrates that car tax as a scheme for reducing C02 output is seriously flawed. Rather it seems that its motivations are political and financial - the political motivation is to appease a frankly gullible section of the population who are too brainwashed by the constant government/media mantra of "cut CO2, cut C02, cut C02" to think for themselves, aren't willing to do the maths to consider whether the scheme actually rewards environmentally-friendly car use, or are so blinded by the prospect of saving a few quid on their own car tax that they're quite happy for those of us who chose to drive cars with larger engines - which don't necessarily output more C02 per year than theirs - to be royally shafted... But of course the overriding motivation is the aforementioned financial one - 'Car Tax' is quite simply a nice little earner for the government. Perhaps not quite so bad if it went towards improving our transport systems - including the scabby roads - in some significant way, but do you see much evidence of that? Certainly not here in Central Scotland! The only way we could change things is to refuse to pay this tax, en masse. Unfortunately we'd need support from those whose cars fall into lower tax bands, and I don't imagine the majority of them would be interested, for the reasons given above What do we do about it then?
mystery machine Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 How long before some chump chimes in with: "Get ureself an classic m8 LOL"
scooby222 Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 dont need a classic, just a good old 2.0 without chocolate pistons
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