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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: duffy78 on 14 March 2008, 08:46

Title: Robbing Sods
Post by: duffy78 on 14 March 2008, 08:46
Car Tax,

Great, i'm really going to enjoy shelling out £415 in a months time,

What are the government thinking?

Thats be going back to getting the tax stamps from the post office next time round to try and soften the blow.
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: duffy78 on 14 March 2008, 08:49
ok after more research (the telegraph claimed the golf gti was in this partcicular band) i think the gti is in band F which would make the 12 months tax 210.

anyone care to confirm this?
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: Komenda on 14 March 2008, 08:54

Yep Band F £210. I used the BBC Budget Calculator, apparently I am going to be £300 a year better off  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: hotrod on 14 March 2008, 08:58
Hi Duffy,

The GTI and ED30 are in band F... yes £210... however looks like £260 next year and £270 the year after.

Cheers... Hotrod
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: duffy78 on 14 March 2008, 09:12

Yep Band F £210. I used the BBC Budget Calculator, apparently I am going to be £300 a year better off  :rolleyes:

£340 better off  :cool:

bring on the dancing girls!
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: topher on 14 March 2008, 09:22
http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/

I'm in band M.. super!

just ran my rallye through it aswell.. £185 a year, and because it's pre -92 it has no cat and exempt from emissions testing, so it more than likely throws out more pollution than the one i have to pay £440 a year on, way to go Gordon!
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: Komenda on 14 March 2008, 09:39

How old does a car have to be to become tax exempt, surely my mk1 must be getting close?
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: RandomJord on 14 March 2008, 10:02

How old does a car have to be to become tax exempt, surely my mk1 must be getting close?

All cars pre 73 i believe, unlucky!
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: Komenda on 14 March 2008, 10:03

Barstewards :grin:
Title: Re: Robbing Sods
Post by: Horney on 14 March 2008, 10:05

How old does a car have to be to become tax exempt, surely my mk1 must be getting close?

It used to be a rolling 25 years but New Labour put a stop to that and froze it at cars built before Jan 1st 1973.

Nick