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Yep parkers have had their VED site up and running since thebudget announcement

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/

Find out if your car is going up to pay for protecting us from global warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My car being pre march 2001  doesnt go up much - deciding whether to keep it and when something dramatic goes wrong engine gearbox etc buy a post march 2001 for peanuts (who wants to pay £400 plus for roadtax for a 2001 to 2005 car - strip it out and sell back to scappers

Read the Lord Lawson report & see that ones again labour are ripping us of again. climate change is a load of rubbish. Its just another way of getting more of our hard earned cash.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/06/ealawson106.xml&page=1

Its a joke, .... if only :(

Lets all sell our caravans and big cars, then jump on a Ryanair flight for £30 to somewhere foreign, surely that will stop global warning wont it? Then we can spend our 'hard-earnt' boosting some foriegn economy rather than supporting the UK holiday industry.

Not only do we have to pay more tax if we choose to drive our vehicles, we also have to pay more for owning them! Surely the caravan club and similar organisations should be doing something to help reduce caravan / motorhome users tax burden because we are greener!

Surely we need to find out when this tax change is due to take place, send our tax discs in for a surrender refund & tax again just before the increase comes into force. This'll give another year at the old rate at least.

What concerns me more than the increase in tax is the devaluation of vehicles that comes with it. No one is going to want to buy cars in the higher bands, they'll become worthless. Lots of people are gong to be paying for vehicles that aren't worth what they owe on them.

BB      

Hi i work in the motor trade and the new prices start on the 1st of march 09,So if you Tax your car on the 1st of feb for 12 months you will get a year at what you pay now, Send in your old tax disc for a refund you must do this on the 31st of january 09 making sure it gets a postmark 31 01 09 on it or the dvla will steel a month refund off you.Also tax discs go up again in march 2010 by another £10 to £20, I currently pay £210 for 12 month, this goes to £430 next march 1st 09 and then to £450 on the 1st march 2010,   THIS ONLY APPLIES TO CARS FROM Y REG AND ONWARDS .

Cheers Tim

As Mallett61 says it only applies from cars from Y reg on. So another option is to buy a big smoker, say an old 3 litre land cruiser that can produce more bad gasses than a modern powerstation and you will only have to pay £185 a year.

Or get something in excess of 25 years old and pay no tax (at least I guess they havent altered that law?). I guess you could just have the old smoker on clasic low milage insurance and just use it for towing.

It's crazy, create more polution with an old vehicle and pay less tax, we really need to lobby someone about this, I'm sick of paying too much tax.

Another option is to buy an older japanese import car, we've done that a few months ago and it looks as though we'll avoid the tax increases.  We have a 1997 Nissan Elgrand (large people carrier 3.2 litre diesel) and this only pays £210!  Fantastic...until they decide to backdate it until the dawn on time because they aren't making enough money...

The japanese import market is flourishing because of this.  They have no salt on their roads and the cars look immaculate even though they are 11 years old!  Ours looks as though it is just out of a showroom, albeit a slightly dated interior.  Take a look at some of the imported cars if you are thinking of down/up grading in the near future...

At this rate they'll be applying tax on the bloke that used to walk in front of model T ford with the red flag!

 After Gordon Browns speech on Friday about listening to the people. I wonder if this will be one of the things that he will listen to the people about. I won't hold my breath for the answer.

    Les

I would think that the best we can hope for is reinstating the 10% tax bracket, car tax and fuel tax as well would be asking too much.

I would think that the best we can hope for is reinstating the 10% tax bracket, car tax and fuel tax as well would be asking too much.

You can find out what it will cost using this website here: http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/