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Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) or Road Tax for 08/09 & 09/10


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It's currenly at £180 for 07/08 and will go up by £5 to £185 from 1 April 2008 for 08/09 as per last years Budget report.

 

Today, they say it will go up by £15 to £200 in 09/10.

 

Then from 1 April 2010 for 10/11 it will be increased in line with indexation.

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Why don't they just scrap 'road' tax and put it on petrol.

That way those who bend it mend it.

All fair, and bound to please everyone.:rlol:

 

Don't quote me on this, but i think that UK and Ireland are only European countries which still seperate road tax from fuel taxation. All continental Europe using "tax in fuel" scheme, which is obviously more fair.

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Seems like there are a lot of people are going to get shafted by this system. What difference will it make to the big picture and climate change?

 

Fook Hall!!:(

 

H.

 

 

Exactly, but to quote someone else from earlier this week, "cli*ate ch*nge" is the goose that has laid a million goldern eggs.

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Why dont the government just keep ALL our wages and then give us pocket money depending on how much we earn. Higher earners would receive a maximum of £75 a week and lower earners £45 a week.

 

This would obviously combat all the problems in the world, climate change, crime etc etc. It's the way forward i tells thee :blink:

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wasnt it on top gear, road users of the world account for 0.01% of the emissions towards global warming, its industry thats causing the majority of it. Its just another way to justify robbing us blind.

 

Give me reliable, clean, fast public transport & i will gladly use that to commute each day, unforunately there isnt any for me to use. Its not my fault. Wouldnt mind so much if they actually kept the roads in good condition by fixing potholes. Speed humps account for increased emissions & wrecked suspension :D

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Did anyone see the petrol station in the background of a BBC news thing i think it was, its was 140 pence, ouch!

 

My gf's cousin is over here for a bit, there from Barbados. He was complaining to me about fuel prices out there, there something like 40p a liter, lol! Mind you though, when they buy a new car/ want to import they have to pay 3 times the cars value in total (so like 200% tax on a new car), ouch!

 

I have a mondeo as a second car for work, a 2002 and because of the newer tax brakets (its a 2.0td) its currently cheaper to tax than my sisters 1.6 petrol golf.

 

Also, if road tax is to pay for the roads, how come hybrid cars get away without paying, they still wear the roads? Really annoys me that they also keep mentioning the Prius and not like the Lexus Hybrid.

 

At the end of the day though, road tax cosing an extra £15 a year is hardly going to scare me into changing my vehicle, I spend more than that in diesel a day to get to work.

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At the end of the day though, road tax cosing an extra £15 a year is hardly going to scare me into changing my vehicle, I spend more than that in diesel a day to get to work.

 

How far is your commute? £15 of diesel would do me for 150 miles!

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Well I used to drive my old fiesta project with a 2.0 conversion into work, which £40 of fuel sees it 200 motorway miles, and as half my journey is backroads it kinda goes thorugh it even more. Its about 90 miles really, but as i do other driving for work (Im a grad QS), I do abit more general driving for work. This is why I bought the Mondeo just over a month ago, as last week I did 1000 miles and ive done over 5k miles in it since ive had it! So yeh, maybe £15 is a little over what I'm spending now, but its probs what i shell out on an avarage day going site-office-home.

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