Vehicle Tax

[kmpowell]

£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!

Have a day off, Jim, we all knew my comment was meant tongue-in-cheek.

[CHB100]

I'm sure the R was £190 last year, just had notification that it is now £200.

My Golf R has been sold 3 weeks now, I got DVLA acknowledgement 3 days later that I was no longer responsible for the car, 2 days after that I get a £16 and pence refund on one whole month left.

2 weeks and 2 days later than the refund (today), I get the reminder through to pay £200 for a year.

What a bunch of f**kwits.

I only paid £145( £140 previous) in April after tax rise on my R 310! But then it was £500 upfront when purchased in May 2017.

[Grahamt]

Tax on a golf r in Ireland is €780. Quit your whining !!!

Wow......makes my GTI seem a bargain, what basis do they use for charging so much....clearly UK is emissions CO2 based?

[hog_hedge]

I'm sure the R was £190 last year, just had notification that it is now £200.

My Golf R has been sold 3 weeks now, I got DVLA acknowledgement 3 days later that I was no longer responsible for the car, 2 days after that I get a £16 and pence refund on one whole month left.

2 weeks and 2 days later than the refund (today), I get the reminder through to pay £200 for a year.

What a bunch of f**kwits.

I only paid £145( £140 previous) in April after tax rise on my R 310! But then it was £500 upfront when purchased in May 2017.

That’s because your new R is on the £145 flat rate along and not the emissions based tax brackets.

[Jim_mk7.5]

£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!

Have a day off, Jim, we all knew my comment was meant tongue-in-cheek.

Sounds like your humour is due a day off! 

[dubber36]

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.

So we'd be taxed twice? We pay tax on our earnings, then get taxed again on what we spend of what we have left...after tax. You are suggesting the same thing as council tax. We work hard, go without things and save hard to buy a nice house, only to be taxed again for the privilege. Where's the incentive to work hard for nice things?

VED should be on fuel, end of. That way we pay for the amount of road we use and the amount of pollution we create pro-rata.

[Watts]

VED should be on fuel, end of. That way we pay for the amount of road we use and the amount of pollution we create pro-rata.

The problem with that is electric cars. The govt won't want to lose revenue as they become more popular.

[fredgroves]

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.

So we'd be taxed twice? We pay tax on our earnings, then get taxed again on what we spend of what we have left...after tax.

Loads of things you spend your take home pay on are taxed though - beer, ciggies, insurance, fuel and then VAT on pretty much everything - including VAT on the fuel duty itself!

Just because you have paid income tax, thats not it by a long old way and never will be any different - unless you roll it up and settle on about 80% income tax!

[Sootchucker]

Well my wife is still smiling that her 2016 Polo Blue GT 150ps was taxed at the end of last month at the princely sum of £20.00 per year 


Not bad for a car that will do 130mph + and 0-60 in less than 8 seconds !

[Jim_mk7.5]

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.

So we'd be taxed twice? We pay tax on our earnings, then get taxed again on what we spend of what we have left...after tax. You are suggesting the same thing as council tax. We work hard, go without things and save hard to buy a nice house, only to be taxed again for the privilege. Where's the incentive to work hard for nice things?

VED should be on fuel, end of. That way we pay for the amount of road we use and the amount of pollution we create pro-rata.

We are been taxed twice anyway. And then when you die, you get taxed again if you've got anything left The Govt should really be loaded.