Vehicle tax increases for 2009 and beyond....?

[rod]

Hi All
I'm contemplating getting a van in place of my car.Was wondering about the increases in road fund licence that were talked about a few months back,and how it will affect vans . Anyone know the amounts/cc/weight etc ??
thanks.....

[quantum stop]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7293011.stm

try here i found it usefull andy

[arthurbrown]

Aren't all the changes 'on hold' as a result of the economy being parped and another retrospective tax would be a surefire election-loser?

[BenzBoy]

I don't think they've decided to put it on hold yet. Usual vagueness from politicians...

www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=235974

[dollywobbler]

The original plans are on hold - well, reduced. All for post-2001 stuff only, so not really retro things. That'll just be as before.

[TheFrequentFryer]

Looking at that report from whatcar, post 2001 stuff left alone for now, post 2006 stuff getting nailed to the cross as planet killing child molesting chicken raping terrorist weapons of mass destruction, as planned.

[jettadeluxe]

...and yet the Government is thinking about bailing out Land Rover/Jaguar, who produce vehicles in the higher emissions range.

If they really wanted to dissuade people from buying higher emission cars, surely the best way would be to aloow manufacturers of such cars to disappear! Oh, wait, its not about the Environment at all, is it!

Why should the taxpayer even bail them out, seeing as parent company Tata is sponsoring Ferrari in the 2009 F1GP?

[hairnet]

we got new combo vans at work with the 1300 diesel engine

they're still 185 a year tax not 120 as would be if it was a normal corsa

[arthurbrown]

This week, multi-billion £ bailout to save jobs.

Next week, they close the factory anyway and flounce off with the money.

[BenzBoy]

Dec 18, 2008 15:43:46 GMT @jettadeluxe said:

...and yet the Government is thinking about bailing out Land Rover/Jaguar, who produce vehicles in the higher emissions range.

If they really wanted to dissuade people from buying higher emission cars, surely the best way would be to aloow manufacturers of such cars to disappear! Oh, wait, its not about the Environment at all, is it!

Absolutely! Excellent point.

[rod]

So if these rules they are suggesting are for cars reg'd after 2001,I wonder what they have in store later on for the pre 2001 stuff ? And why did they choose 2001 as the base line?

[jrevillug]

2001 is the baseline beacuse that's when the CO2-based banded tax regime was introduced. AFAIK, they can't easily change the pre-2001 legislation, but they are planning on increasing the current over 1.5L tax band by about £15.

James

[rod]

Eventually ,we'll all be on a slippery slope ,I reckon!

[popuptoaster]

The more they try and tax me away from big gas guzzlers the more i'm determined to keep one, i'm so sad.

[fredtransit]

All our vans are £185 and Private Light Goods, all pre 2001 (pre 1988 actually), unless they are pre 1973, and therefore the tax is FREE! There is no way of taxing Mk1 and Mk2 transits by the C02 they emit, as it isn't registered from new at the DVLA.

[murran]

we'll all get taxed off the road at some point.