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[dextrous]

Got the reminder letter for my car tax disc last week - the cost for 12 months on this was £175.

Went onto direct.gov.uk/taxdisc today, at which point it has magically increased to £200 (plus £2.50 for the honour of using a credit card). I've half a mind not to vote labour back in

 

[joe-90]

You've got half a brain if you vote labour back in.

 

[lifesagasman]

my car tax for this year is £0.00. Zilch. eat your heart out !!

 

[wotan]

car tax is unadulterated extortion, captive consumer, if you want to use your car you have to pay.
What I don't agree with is tax free cars, don't they drive on the roads too?
It was known as the road fund licence, every user should contribute, including cyclists.

Wotan

 

[dextrous]

You've got half a brain if you vote labour back in.

That's more than I would have estimated

my car tax for this year is £0.00. Zilch.

Why?

car tax is unadulterated extortion, captive consumer, if you want to use your car you have to pay.

Oh, yes indeedy

What I don't agree with is tax free cars, don't they drive on the roads too?
It was known as the road fund licence, every user should contribute, including cyclists.

and pedestrians!! - have you seen the erosion caused by them. In fact, if we didn't have to keep on slowing down and stopping to let them cross, then roads wouldn't wear out half as quickly

 

[wreckedit]

It was known as the road fund licence, every user should contribute, including cyclists.

Wotan

This is an old chestnut and in defence of cyclists,which I am not,they leave more fuel for you to use. They leave more road for you to use, do not produce polutents. Continentals have far more respect for cyclists than the British motorist, why? Its because the cyclist hating motorist doesn't know whats good for them. If you come back in in the future you will probably find the cyclists are more highly regarded than the stupid gas guzzling motorist. Who by the way are making a legacy for there off-spring of unsurmountable hardship, like more wars.

 

[joe-90]

Cycling on the roads should be banned apart from weekends. Mobile chicanes that get in everybody's way and cause massive pollution.

 

[Richard C]

Got the reminder letter for my car tax disc last week - the cost for 12 months on this was £175.

Went onto direct.gov.uk/taxdisc today, at which point it has magically increased to £200 (plus £2.50 for the honour of using a credit card). I've half a mind not to vote labour back in

Think yourself lucky; my wife's reminder said £215 but I was charged £245 on line simply because her TD4 Freelander was registered in May rather than March!

My 98 2.5 TDI Brava truck is still only £184! But my other pride & joy is free

 

[joinerjohn]

"They leave more road for you to use""
Official advice for motorists in the Highway Code is, when overtaking a cyclist, to treat them as a small car and give them a wide berth.
Yep , it's official then. They don't make more room for car users on the roads (unless their riding illegally on the pavements)

 

[wreckedit]

"They leave more road for you to use""
Official advice for motorists in the Highway Code is, when overtaking a cyclist, to treat them as a small car and give them a wide berth.
Yep , it's official then. They don't make more room for car users on the roads (unless their riding illegally on the pavements)

What officials say and what motorists do is completely different. I have seen cases where motorists target cyclists in order to kill them. Its not funny when they are your friends.

 

[Karinska]

"They leave more road for you to use""
Official advice for motorists in the Highway Code is, when overtaking a cyclist, to treat them as a small car and give them a wide berth.
Yep , it's official then. They don't make more room for car users on the roads (unless their riding illegally on the pavements)

What officials say and what motorists do is completely different. I have seen cases where motorists target cyclists in order to kill them. Its not funny when they are your friends.

Good grief! Are you sure about that?
No wonder the Inspector Morse series went on so long

 

[wreckedit]

Yes, it is true. The truth is in fact more devastating than fiction.

 

[Lincsbodger]

Motorists are nothing less than a cash cow for the government, the police, the insurance companies and the garages.

Massive amounts of money is raised this way, and almost none is actually spent on roads. Most of it goes to paying for schools, hospitals and the bloody EU.

 

[Donkmeister]

CO2 g/km is presumably linked to the "combined" fuel consumption figure, by working out the thermal efficiency of the engine, versus the volume of fuel burnt to travel 1 km.

As thermal efficiency of all petrol engines is basically the same, and for all diesel engines is basically the same, you get about the same grammes of CO2 for each litre of petrol (or diesel) burnt. The key factor is, how many litres your car burns. Now, if only there had been an existing, well-understood, easy-to-use unit for quantifying the volume of fuel being consumed by a vehicle travelling a given distance...

Ooooh, wait, there IS! And we've all been using it (and still are) to decide if a potential new car is going to use a lot of petrol!!! It's called "miles per gallon", and most people would consider 50 good and 5 terrible.

So why don't they just use the MPG to decide tax rates? Or just consider that no-one buys a car because they think "Wow, this will burn LOTS of petrol, I must have it!"... the penalty of a thirsty car has ALWAYS been the cost of buying fuel.

*(Those on the continent could be charged on "hectolitres per 34.2 km driven in 3rd gear on a Wednesday in August", I believe this is the currently accepted unit of fuel consumption that is given alongside MPG.)

 

[Spark123]

Got the reminder letter for my car tax disc last week - the cost for 12 months on this was £175.

Went onto direct.gov.uk/taxdisc today, at which point it has magically increased to £200 (plus £2.50 for the honour of using a credit card). I've half a mind not to vote labour back in

I renewed mine (using the online service) on the same day that the V11 came through the post and it was £5 more than it said on it.
Unfortunately it says that "the rate shown was correct at the time of printing however a different rate may be payable depending on when the licence is purchased."
I take it that they print them weeks before they are sent out