The government has declared its budget for 2008. Among the changes that will affect motorists are:
- Increased fuel tax (postponed until October)
- Funding for new technology to manage road pricing
- Higher first year tax on the most polluting cars
- Planned changes to vehicle tax from April 2009 to encourage manufacturers to build less polluting cars
Will the 2008 budget have an effect on what car you drive or how much you drive? What’s your reaction to the budget?
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Outrage. I’m so sick of England. I love this country but i’m sick of being shafted. Whatever happened to parity? The US is a very different economy but fundamentally, isn’t crippled by woeful public transport, without viable alternative. I will not vote for any green measures until we are as hard on foreign environmental policy as we are on national environment issues.
Taxing vehicles on the basis of bands is the most unfair system ever devised. My Jaguar will rise to over £400.00 per dispite the fact I don’t fly and do less than 4,000 miles per year. I already pay more tax on ever gallong of petrol I buy and now I will end up paying even more tax dispite the fact that a driver with a vehicle in a lower band who drives 10,000 miles a year actualy pollutes more than I do. This new car tax band system is nothing more than a way to raise money and has very little to do with actual environmental issues.
I think Mr Darling has well and truly done us motorists a bad deal. Though i do agree with the Chelsea tractors tax bands, as they’re not needed in the city, off road yes!
Though what aggrevates me the most is that we’re told to buy small engine cars to help the environment but what did Mr Darling drive away in when he’d delivered his budget….. a Range Rover probably at least 3.0 litre possibly 4.0 litre. Of course extra road tax for him wont matter he’ll get a pay rise in order to compensate it in the next few months you just wait!
What’s that saying you should practice what you preach!
As a brand new motorist it is already expensive buying insurance without having to fathom out new road tax costs, which will add on a few more pounds. However, my dad is seriously going to be penalised as he has a 2.0 litre focus however uses it only a couple of times a week but still has to pay the same as someone with the same car who uses it a hell of a lot more! This whole climate change, save the environment stuff what is the point when you have the majority of American’s driving round in 4.0+ litre pick up trucks and China erecting a power station every week-what difference will the piddly UK make to climate change when we’re up against these countries?????
Hammer the motorist yet again.
This is the most corrupt ,lying bankrupt of ideas government this country has ever seen.
Call a general election if you dare. Especially when no one else seems to care. We already pay more than just about any country in the world. Bunch of self serving crooks.
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what a joke why are they picking on 2006 cars when i got my car it was £210 a year for road tax now its £400 why do we jump up so much , the govement says its to make me change my car well if thats the case i could buy the same car made befor march 2006 and pay less road tax or i could go all out and make some real co’2 and buy a 1991 4.0L jeep with low road tax what a bargin . its the old cars that should be of the road as they are the smokers , goverments got it all wrong there just makeing money if they really wanted to get the high c0’2 cars of the road it would been done on all years time to leave this country its gone to pop
I (with a car of 185g/km) will have to find an extra £90 next year. A slightly more polluting car of 195g/km which up until now was a bracket higher, will now pay the same as me …. an increase of only £50.
So, to the idiot Chancellor, who thinks he is taxing those who pollute more …….. I for one will be buying a more polluting car next year, ‘cos it will cost me the same as my less polluting one.
So according to this, my humble 02 reg Vectra SR 130 that by 2010 will be 8 years old and probably be worth around £1000 will be in line for £260 road tax!! It is a clean and efficient car that does between 30 and 40mpg but emits 187 gms of CO2. Where as all pre 2000 cars are exempt from CO2 taxes, including Range Rovers and Rolls Royces!! I would sell it but who would want to buy it now!!??
This tax doesn’t take into account the life cycle of a car (i.e. how much C02 goes into making a car, how long the car lasts etc.). Only stupid people think less c02 a car emits = more pollution. Toyota built a new factory for the Prius, how much c02 went into that?!
The biggest contributor (in the UK motoring world) to c02 production is the person who buys a new car every year. Those who keep the same car for 10-15yrs should be rewarded not penalised with this idiotic idea current being used.
This is an attempt at taxing the rich and has nothing to do with the environment.
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New motorist here, this is getting out of hand. Why don’t they start taxing the airports, why they’re buliding an extension to my hometown’s airport, and they blame us for all this “Carbon” nonsense. Well first of all stop taking down the Amazon rainforest Carbon-Dioxide —> Oxygen!
I can’t see what the problem is!
“Global Warming” in my opinion is a lot of old toosh – the person who invented this must be really rich I mean seriously!
Not that I’m for going “greener” anyhow but all this makes you want to drive a 7 litre Range Rover or whatever!
Clown policies by a guy that looks like a clown