Government is talking about upping car tax upto £140 this year

Sinbad2000 said:
how...

I just got a freaking 40% increase in my insurance this renewal...
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I had a 35% increase in my insurance, up from £175 to £236.

My car tax will go up to £415!

To suit the amount I drive tax needs to be put onto fuel. I do my bit by cycle commuting to work, which helps keeps my yearly miles down a fair bit.
 
Gixer said:
I had a 35% increase in my insurance, up from £175 to £236.

My car tax will go up to £415!

To suit the amount I drive tax needs to be put onto fuel. I do my bit by cycle commuting to work, which helps keeps my yearly miles down a fair bit.
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wtf man. I've gone from £600-odd to over £800. 8k miles a year, subaru diesel auto! 7 year NCD...
 
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ev policy - press all raving about byd outselling tesla this evening -
maybe Chancelllor/govt could do something like France just did, following biden's protectionist lead -

The French government already offered buyers a cash incentive of between 5,000 and 7,000 euros to get more electric cars on the road, at a total cost of 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) per year.

However, in the absence of cheap European-made EVs, a third of all incentives are going to consumers buying EVs made in China, French finance ministry officials say. The trend has helped spur a surge in imports and a growing competitive gap with domestic producers.

China's auto industry relies heavily on coal-generated electricity, meaning many Chinese-made EVs will henceforth not qualify.

The Ademe agency overseeing the process studied the eligibility of almost 500 EV models and their variants to include in the scheme.

Dacia, the low-cost Renault brand, saw its Spring model that is imported from China excluded from the list, as was SAIC's MG4.

Tesla's Model 3 is made in China. The Model Y, which is larger and more expensive, is made mainly in Berlin and was the top selling EV in France over the first 11 months of the year.
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apparently you get 100e/month off of a lease/fleet-ev
 
So your increase in insurance is very similar to mine. As for why my insurance is so cheap, I'm 45. I drive a 2004 Audi A4 1.8T (190ps), 10k a year, miles wife on insurance and 19 or so years NCD, fully comp insurance. I'm pretty much just paying to have third party insurance as my excess is £250 so if I total my car I will not be making a claim. I doubt going third party only will reduce the premium much, wish I'd looked now.
 
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jpaul said:
ev policy - press all raving about byd outselling tesla this evening -
maybe Chancelllor/govt could do something like France just did, following biden's protectionist lead -


apparently you get 100e/month off of a lease/fleet-ev
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I disagree with that - I think encouraging "domestic" market with subsidies makes sense.. we need to fix the problem that is the lack of high end manufacturing somehow afterall
 
Painful, looks like its going to squeeze my mondeo up to £335. Annoyingly if it emitted just 1g less of CO2 I'd be a bracket lower as well. Thankfully I'll squeeze in a renewal just before this comes in so should get a year before it hits but its frustrating that the tax is so comparitively high when I do such low mileage.
 
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