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Offline andy28

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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #10 on: 08 May 2019, 06:31 »
Tax on a golf r in Ireland is €780. Quit your whining !!! :wink: :wink:

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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #11 on: 08 May 2019, 07:14 »
Tax on a golf r in Ireland is €780. Quit your whining !!! :wink: :wink:
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #12 on: 08 May 2019, 07:39 »
I am convinced now, for better or worse, we'll all be driving electric cars sooner than we think. They'll have to find a way to tax them then.

I heard this morning that sales of electric cars are up 50%!

They now make up 1% of total car sales...

But certainly HMG will need something to replace fuel duty because:

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we expect fuel duty to raise £28.4 billion in 2019-20. That would represent 3.5 per cent of all receipts and is equivalent to £1,000 per household and 1.3 per cent of national income
(source OBR)

3.5% of all taxes received by HMRC are from fuel duty.

The expectation is that fuel duty revenue will be replaced by "road pricing" (ie charging you per mile that you drive using gps tracking)
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #13 on: 08 May 2019, 08:58 »
Not quite on topic but something ive never understood is why people complain about how much their car costs to tax 
£200/365 a day isnt a large amount if money, I waste more on coffee.

Now if you had a fleet of supercars or a collection of older cars in the top tax brackets and didn't do many miles I could sort of understand.

Think in total i did less than 3k miles last year shared between 4 cars. So 4 sets of road tax for 3000 miles. My MOT man laffs at me.
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #14 on: 08 May 2019, 09:08 »
£200/365 a day isnt a large amount if money, I waste more on coffee.
How the hell do you sleep if you drink that much coffee a day...?!?
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #15 on: 08 May 2019, 09:15 »
Not quite on topic but something ive never understood is why people complain about how much their car costs to tax 
£200/365 a day isnt a large amount if money, I waste more on coffee.

Now if you had a fleet of supercars or a collection of older cars in the top tax brackets and didn't do many miles I could sort of understand.

Think in total i did less than 3k miles last year shared between 4 cars. So 4 sets of road tax for 3000 miles. My MOT man laffs at me.

It's a really good point. It's 54p a day. I think it's because you don't really get anything tangible for your £200.

My view has always been that road/vehicle tax should be purely based on the list price. The people drive more expensive cars pay more money. Pretty simple and same as how tax works for earnings. It could be £100 per £10k list.

The whole co2 stuff has left the gov way out of pocket in recent years when everyone was driving these 1.6TDI's with £0 road tax. 1000's and 1000's of A3, 1 Series, Golfs all paying no vehicle tax 4 or 5 years ago. And lots were £30. Complete balls up.
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #16 on: 08 May 2019, 09:17 »
£200/365 a day isnt a large amount if money, I waste more on coffee.
How the hell do you sleep if you drink that much coffee a day...?!?

It's 54p a day. A Nespresso capsule is 33-37p so it's 2 coffees a day at home or 1 take away coffee a day. Not a lot of coffee really!
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #17 on: 08 May 2019, 09:22 »
£200/365 a day isnt a large amount if money, I waste more on coffee.
How the hell do you sleep if you drink that much coffee a day...?!?

It's 54p a day. A Nespresso capsule is 33-37p so it's 2 coffees a day at home or 1 take away coffee a day. Not a lot of coffee really!

Re-read it - it's obvious he meant a year but he's put "a day"
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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #18 on: 08 May 2019, 09:29 »
Unfortunately this is the reality of the situation - http://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk

And as the enemy of the environment, car owners (in particular those of us with sporty numbers) are an easy target to raise funds.  And it's only going to get worse I'm afraid.  Until we go all electric anyway.

Jesus! No wonder the government are just like YOLO let’s just carry on spunking money up the wall. There’s no getting out of that quickly, maybe in 100 years.

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Re: Vehicle Tax
« Reply #19 on: 08 May 2019, 09:50 »
£200/365 a day isnt a large amount if money, I waste more on coffee.
How the hell do you sleep if you drink that much coffee a day...?!?

It's 54p a day. A Nespresso capsule is 33-37p so it's 2 coffees a day at home or 1 take away coffee a day. Not a lot of coffee really!

Re-read it - it's obvious he meant a year but he's put "a day"

Yes, I took it to mean 200/365 worked out per day. Which is what Snoppy meant!
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