Idiot UK Driver' Angry About DVLA Clamping His 'Motor' Attacks It With Sledgehammer So They Can't Se

I'd never buy a car that's on the £500+ bracket, so yes it does influence people. Don't you see the amount of threads on OCUK where people cite the VED band as the reason for buying a new car.

Yeah spend 20k so you can pay £10 a year in VED, okay mate.

Anyway, it happens.
 
Janesy B said:
I'd never buy a car that's on the £500+ bracket, so yes it does influence people. Don't you see the amount of threads on OCUK where people cite the VED band as the reason for buying a new car.

Yeah spend 20k so you can pay £10 a year in VED, okay mate.

Anyway, it happens.
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So if you wanted a (insert nice car) costing hundreds of times a years the price of taxing it you wouldn't buy it. How much is that X5 £30,000 sir. How much is the TAX £500 a year. No thanks. Yeah that makes total sense.
 
I wouldn't buy a 30k car, not in a lump anyway - but I ruled out things like a Mazda 3 MPS purely because of the tax band, paying £490 a year on a car worth £4-5000 is a bitter pill to swallow.
 
Needs to be incorporated with fuel duty, the more you burn the more you pay. It's the most fair and logical way of doing it.
 
jigger said:
TAX bracket's make zero difference to people buying a car IMO.
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It's an extra £20-odd a month, which is a lot of money for me. In the car I'm currently considering, that same £20 would pay for my fuel to work and back for 5 weeks straight.

jigger said:
Now if government want to get serious on TAX brackets and do some good with the money I might.
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The tax brackets are clear and you can simply look up on a table to find out what the cost will be.
If you want something to get on your high horse about, go after the insurance guys and their insanely random pricing calculations!!

jigger said:
Take people driving illegally or dangerously, I could get behind. But car tax, no sorry it's doing anything but be a royal pain in the arse.
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Tax = Insurance = MoT. Look after the pennies...
 
Janesy B said:
Needs to be incorporated with fuel duty, the more you burn the more you pay. It's the most fair and logical way of doing it.
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Wouldn't that have the issue of making it more expensive for commercial haulage as you can't graduate the tax? Rebates might work, but are an administrative burden.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I can tell. And a lot of people would disagree with you and say that it's a necessary evil, myself included.

Also tax doesn't need to be in caps.
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I'm not sure why. I pay for roads in my council TAX and they do a poor job. The system makes nothing any better and is filled with penalty mechanisms that mainly serve the purpose of turning perfectly good cars into scrap metal.

It's worse than the scrappage scheme. At least that put a couple of thousand in peoples pockets and got some people out of sheds and into new cars.
 
I'm all for making the tax system simpler and they should just roll all these things into the petrol price so you pay and go

In its current format its OK - I've bombed out certain cars based on the tax band before.

Why have you got 4 cars and a bike? - most people would have a couple in a family maybe. Just declare a couple of them off road unless you drive them based on what day of the week it is
 
Idiot UK Driver' Angry About DVLA Clamping His 'Motor' Attacks It With Sledgehammer So They Can't Sell It


its been done before

people do it, some get on the news
 
jimjamuk said:
I'm all for making the tax system simpler and they should just roll all these things into the petrol price so you pay and go

In its current format its OK - I've bombed out certain cars based on the tax band before.

Why have you got 4 cars and a bike? - most people would have a couple in a family maybe. Just declare a couple of them off road unless you drive them based on what day of the week it is
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Because I sold a couple :p
 
Kuros said:
I somewhat disagree with the above. The reason for various bands of tax is that it encourages people to go for greener/cleaner cars rather than petrol drinking V8's, if you scrap all of this, you'd just end up going back to the age of heavy polluting cars all over the shop.
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Except this isn't really the case, is it? You already pay an increasingly large amount of tax the more thirsty your car is - its called fuel duty. If you buy a large, inefficient and wasteful car you will consume lots of fuel and pay lots of fuel duty. If you buy a small and efficient car you will consume less fuel and pay less fuel duty.

All vehicle excise duty does is make older cars harder to sell (but they already exist so no saving there), encourage manufacturers to game the system (Anyone fancy a BMW that does 0-60 in 5.8 seconds, 155mph, weigh 1800kg and yet cost only £145 to tax? Go for it - its called the 530d) and not really affect people buying new large and wasteful cars. £485 PA road tax is of no concern to the first owner of a Supercharged Range Rover Vogue.
 
Anyone fancy a McLaren that does 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and 220MPH and only costs £255 a year to TAX? Buy a used P1 because a new one costs £480 for some reason. Maybe thats how long it takes to charge the battery. Shruggs
 
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