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a new higher band of graduated VED (band G), set at £210 for petrol cars, will be introduced for the most polluting new cars (those above 225g of carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre);• the VED rate for the small number of cars with the very lowest carbon emissions (band A) will be reduced to £0 to encourage take-up and assist the development of the low carbon car market;• VED rates will also be reduced for band B by £35 and C by £5, frozen for bands D and E, and increased by £25 for band F;• rates for pre-2001 registered cars and light goods vehicles in the lower band will be frozen with the higher band increased by £5;• the reduced rate of graduated VED for alternative fuel cars will be extended to include those cars manufactured to run on high blend bioethanol (E85); and• In total, 50 per cent of cars will see their VED frozen or reduced.Three million cars will pay VED of £100 or less.
Excuse me for being thick but.......Does that mean if our truck was registered before 2001 we're looking at a £5 increase in road tax??
Ok this is the whole budget.The interesting bits start on. page 170http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/bud06_completereport_2320.pdf
Quotea new higher band of graduated VED (band G), set at £210 for petrol cars, will be introduced for the most polluting new cars (those above 225g of carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre);
a new higher band of graduated VED (band G), set at £210 for petrol cars, will be introduced for the most polluting new cars (those above 225g of carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre);
Quote from: "Cherry Bomb"Excuse me for being thick but.......Does that mean if our truck was registered before 2001 we're looking at a £5 increase in road tax??Absolutely. Cars registered before 2001 will always only be taxed on the grounds of their engine size since the manufacturers weren't obliged to provide CO2 values back then.
Quote from: "jnoshea"Quote from: "Cherry Bomb"Excuse me for being thick but.......Does that mean if our truck was registered before 2001 we're looking at a £5 increase in road tax??Absolutely. Cars registered before 2001 will always only be taxed on the grounds of their engine size since the manufacturers weren't obliged to provide CO2 values back then.What p***es me off is that none of us can get reduced tax for running cleaner fuels, like LPG or Biodiesel.Interestingly, Biodiesel/Veg oil are carbon neutral fuels, meaning the plants absorb the CO2 made by the engine. The big picture is that such cars are solar powered Electric cars on the other hand are not, they rely on power stations to burn fossil fuels, so not really that clean after all :roll: The big plus with electric cars is when they incorporate regenerative braking, as used on the railways. For those who don't know this means using the motor as a generator to recharge the batteries, converting the momentum of the car back into electric charge rather than heat energy in brakes.Trouble is the people in power don't understand anything about how the world works, this lot are also too easliy swayed by the antis, but then we knew that already right
The actual changes are...* Vehicles registered before 1st March 2001 Duty for vehicles above 1549cc increased from £170 to £175. Duty for smaller engines unchanged at £110.* Vehicles registered on or after 1st March 2001 Band D and E vehicles have their duty unchanged. Vehicles with lower emissions have cheaper RFL, and vehicles with higher emissions get more expensive. For vehicles that don't fall into the next group, the highest band is still F, with petrol RFL rising from £165 to £190, and diesel rising from £170 to £195.* Vehicles registered on or after 23rd March 2006 This has the new GVED band "G". For emissions of 226 g/km or more of CO2, this introduces a RFL of £200 for alternative fuels, £210 for petrol, and £215 for diesel.
