TAX- 4X4 Drivers Get The Last Laugh!!

[laser_jock99]

Autocar Magazine list 55 vehicle manufactures producing 3042 different model variations.

Of the 3042 vehicle variations not one vehicle falls into the zero road tax bracket of 100 CO2 or below (not even the Smart diesel as reported on radio 4 yesterday) and only 88 of the 3042 vehicle variations will see the £35.00 road tax reduction. 470 vehicle variations will get the £5.00 reduction and 571 variations will remain paying the current road fund licence

The cleverly hidden part is the largest group by far, the normal 1.6-2.2L family car / repmobile. They will face an increase of £25.00 cunningly hidden by putting the spot light on us 4x4 drivers!

Of the 586 vehicle variations that fall into the NEW band G (225 CO2 and above) only 130 are true 4x4 (offroad) vehicles. Therefore the remaining 456 variations are sports or other luxury execcutive vehicles.

Although new Band G have been hit the hardest (£45.00 increase on new cars) us 4x4 drivers have been used as an effective smoke screen to hide the REAL whipping "Mr Anti 4x4 Joe Public" has taken (average £25 increase) but won't realise until they renew their tax!

Most of the people on this forum, like me, probably own a pre 2001 'guzzler' and are therfore facing a mere £5 increase.

Now who's laughing.....!!!!!!!!!!

[ian_s]

i know i am,
one car up by £5, the other stays the same :)

[drutt]

Now who's laughing.....!!!!!!!!!!

As always, the answer to that is "Gordon Brown"

Although, the increase in Personal Tax allowance actually means I might be better off, so I'm keeping schtum.

[richard_sephton]

can you get cheeper tax with lpg

[Rich_P]

can you get cheeper tax with lpg

Nope.   No tax reduction for gassed vehicles.

[Mace]

And I though I read somewhere that tax on LPG was going up 2.25p in September !

[muddybunny]

that's excellent.............just saved us £70.00 a year.............. off down pub to celebrate :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[marjan]

Both mine have stayed the same so that's a right ole slap in the mush for Blair & his croneys! :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Thrasher]

This year I'm a whopping £5 worse off....... :-)

[Range Rover Blues]

I'm so pleased i might go and buy another Range Rover to celebrate :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

[tenpolequint]

Some of us had already hinted at Gordon Browns sneak tactics in earlier threads.

[Bush Tucker Man]

The cleverly hidden part is the largest group by far, the normal 1.6-2.2L family car / repmobile. They will face an increase of £25.00 cunningly hidden by putting the spot light on us 4x4 drivers!

I pointed this little fact out to one of the 'smug-git' Doctors with a 2.0litre Fiesta Sport (or whatever it is)  he wasn't so smug afterwards :lol:  :lol:

[laser_jock99]

Some of us had already hinted at Gordon Browns sneak tactics in earlier threads.

Until I looked at the numbers involved I didn't realise what a huge 'deception' it was. Gordan et al have managed to increase Road Tax on around 1500 'middling' car models and still managed to leave the owners thinking 4x4 'gas guzzlers' have been hit hardest!

Quite interesting in all this has been the role of the media who (knowingly or not?) paved the way for Gordon by calling it a "4x4 Tax" when it could only have ever be done on an emmissions basis.

Proof that you can fool some of the people most of time.....




Not so smug folk abound at my work place to - no less than four people in my office will face the £25 Road Tax rise on their 2.0L Euroboxes!

[Baby_Rhino]

Of the 3042 vehicle variations not one vehicle falls into the zero road tax bracket of 100 CO2 or below (not even the Smart diesel as reported on radio 4 yesterday)

The BBC website listed a few £0 tax cars? what was your source?  :?

[Rich_P]

Of the 3042 vehicle variations not one vehicle falls into the zero road tax bracket of 100 CO2 or below (not even the Smart diesel as reported on radio 4 yesterday)

The BBC website listed a few £0 tax cars? what was your source?  :?

It was mentioned in the "thing", can't remember its name now, but the thing which listed the tax changes and such on cars.  The trouble is, the cars which would have no tax or very very little tax on emissions, can't be bought in the UK!