New Car Tax Rates for 2009..

Also would it technically not be possible to measure the emissions when a car gets its MOT and tax accordingly? Surely if they wanted to penalise higher CO2 emitters then this would be the sane way to do it?


Just remove the cat for reduced CO2 output.
 
Band M \o/

Hello £440 a year tax, if I still have my 530i then (reasonably unlikely I guess)

I thought you were running it into the ground?

Anyway, can you see your car taking a hit in value due to this new tax band?
 
I thought you were running it into the ground?

Anyway, can you see your car taking a hit in value due to this new tax band?

There was a report in the news last week claiming that the increased costs of running a car (such as rising fuel prices and increased tax for gas guzzlers) means that second-hand cars will see around an additional 8% drop in value compared to normal this year!
 
My LCR is going to go up.

Thankfully I renew at the end of this month so can put it off for another year.

Then I go diesel.....

Sad sad times......
 
It's £66 to insure a 600CC+ bike for 12 months and yet a highly strung 600CC bike will get 35mpg at best. How come they aren't really affected by the new taxes?
 
mine only goes up to £300, that's not bad considering many, many cars with less performance are in the higher bands :)

223g/km for the win :)
 
Oh goody :rolleyes:

Both my 2.2 Prelude, and my dad's 3.0 V6 petrol Shogun are having their tax go up by an absolutely staggering £5, and then a further £15 taking it to a total of £200 per year :mad:


Absolutely shocking!! :mad:




Thank heavens for pre-2001 cars ;)
 
I thought you were running it into the ground?

Anyway, can you see your car taking a hit in value due to this new tax band?

Not sure, I doubt I will - really want a BMW M car (which will obviously be hit by this supertax, but at least it's worth it :p) so I'll probably keep the 530 until I can get insurance reasonably on an M3/M5 (another year and a half or so) and then chop it in.
 
Mines going up to £300 so it is getting the elbow I am afraid. I love the car and it is not just the road tax it is the overall running costs of having a petrol.

Boring diesel for me as my mileage continues to hover around the 25-30k a year.

Doubt I will get much for my car now though.
 
[TW]Fox;11315231 said:
I love it, thousands of people all losing thousands by trading in cars becuase their tax is going up 100 quid a year..

To put it in perspective though, I'm putting £100/month away to keep my car on the road (tax, MOT, servicing and tyres). As of next year I'll have to use 3 months savings rather than 2 for my tax leaving me less for everything else..

I can still afford it but along with other household price rises such as gas and electric, the belt will need to be tightened slightly.
 
:eek: mine more than doubles going from £205 now to £440. Luckily it runs out on the 1st August so i'll put 6 months on and then put a year on in Feb next year and avoid the ridiculous amount of tax till 2010 when it wil be just £455..nice! I'll just have to use it more now to make sure I get my monies worth! Ill do my best with the 284g/Km I put out to kill as many penguins as I can! :D

Makes you wonder though, just how much more tax are we willing to pay before people will actually do somthing other than just sit around complaining about it?

NS
 
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