Road tax bands for cars registered before 1 April 2017 Here are the outgoing first road tax bands for cars registered before 1 April 2017: https://www.carwow.co.uk/guides/buy...tvoUWv-Pf_nOcycVHROTkog9yErz20lJUoaAoJ68P8HAQ First year road tax bands – cars registered before 1 April 2017 CO2 emissions Petrol and diesel cars Alternative fuel cars A – up to 100 £0 £0 B – 101-110 £0 £0 C – 111-120 £0 £0 D – 121-130 £0 £0 E – 131-140 £130 £120 F – 141-150 £145 £135 G – 151-165 £185 £175 H – 166-175 £300 £290 I – 176-185 £355 £345 J – 186-200 £500 £490 K – 201-225 £650 £640 L – 226-255 £885 £875 M – more than 255 £1,120 £1,110 Here are the outgoing road tax bands for cars registered before 1 April 2017 from the second year onwards: Second year onwards road tax bands – cars registered before 1 April 2017 CO2 emissions Petrol and diesel cars Alternative fuel cars A – up to 100 £0 £0 B – 101-110 £20 £10 C – 111-120 £30 £20 D – 121-130 £110 £100 E – 131-140 £130 £120 F – 141-150 £145 £135 G – 151-165 £185 £175 H – 166-175 £210 £200 I – 176-185 £230 £220 J – 186-200 £270 £260 K – 201-225 £295 £285 L – 226-255 £500 £490 M – more than 255 £515 £505 Sorry the table didn't come out right. Basically for those running big and older cars we've got a big price hike for car tax. Just look at the increase for a 3000cc car...typical M and above.
It was always going to be on the cards. It was obvious to the man on the street that vehicles with low emissions generating no/little tax would be the way to go. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid government actually is.
There's a 3% surcharge on diesels this year too, government have now realised their "environmental" mistake and are attempting to tax us out of the nasty smoky particulate generating vehicles they wanted us all to be driving 10 yrs ago - another complete U turn!!
Is the first list the old rate or the second list? On the first list a band D is £0 and a band M is £1120, but on the second list they are £110 and £515. Is the band D going down or up.
There has of course been the idea muted many times that we should do away with car tax and add it to fuel. £0.01/l adds up to an awful lot of money, more than is recovered in the current system, even after you factor in the cost of recovering it. The big bonus would be to be able to make a load of incompetent Pr***s in Swansea redundant. It appears fair in many ways, as those who use the road most in bigger vehicles will use more fuel and pay more tax, conversely the little old lady who uses her small car once a week to go shopping will pay very little. So too will commuters on fuel efficient bikes and users of Hybrid and electric vehicles. The only downside is that as the use of Hybrid and electric vehicles increases they will be wearing out the road but not paying tax, although that’s not much different to the situation now because of their low or Zero tax brackets. On the other hand, as the driver of a 4x4, motorcyclist, and ‘mucker about on the water’ with 2-stroke outboard engines, I hope to god it doesn’t happen. Nasher.
I didn't have the patience to read the tables but this has been on the cards for a long, long time. The only thing I tax is the bikes as we lease all our cars. What difference will it make to a 1299? I'm confused reading it, does it only effect new purchases or all vehicles?
I also see in this a rolling back of the "CO2 is bad" mantra with our policies for cutting CO2 at all costs being slowly dropped.
Just looked at the working examples, anything new over £40k - even electric gets a mandatory tax, circa £310. That's small car sales on the rise then. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Just to reiterate, the changes only affect new cars registered after 1 April 2017. The info published by various organisations and newspapers is confusing. The info posted by DVLA is much easier to understand, here is an extract from the DVLA website. For those that own vehicles registered before and after 2001 the existing arrangement continues, for example a 2010 Fiesta 1.6tdci diesel is still going to be £20 and the 1.2 petrol version will remain £0 New vehicle tax rates from 1 April 2017 From: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency First published: 30 January 2017 The way vehicle tax is calculated will change for cars and some motor homes that are first registered with DVLA from 1 April 2017. The change won’t affect any vehicles registered before April, but drivers can check the vehicle tax rates to make sure they know what they need to pay. The rates explained Vehicle tax for the first year is based on CO2 emissions. After the first year, the amount of tax that needs to be paid depends on the type of vehicle. The rates are: £140 a year for petrol or diesel vehicles £130 a year for alternative fuel vehicles (hybrids, bioethanol and LPG) £0 a year for vehicles with zero CO2 emissions New vehicles with a list price of more than £40,000 If a vehicle has a list price (the published price before any discounts) of more than £40,000, the rate of tax is based on CO2 for the first year. After the first year, the rate depends on the type of vehicle (petrol, diesel, alternative fuel or zero emissions) and an additional rate of £310 a year for the next 5 years. After those 5 years, the vehicle will then be taxed at one of the standard rates (£140, £130, or £0, depending on vehicle type).
I don't see that this has anything to do with CO2 or pollution. If it did then the UK government would do something about the military aircraft flying about on "training" missions. A Tornado can take off from RAF Marham fly around the UK for an hour or so and land back at Marham having burned 5 tons of avtur (diesel). It has not taken anyone anywhere, just burned fuel. I drive a 4x4, have four bikes and a microlight but only one MOT and no road tax.
So where does that indicate the priority lies? We are a three car household one of which is a 16 year old diesel Mercedes which has been owned from new, I would love the government to give me cash for it to put against a new small environmentally friendly car, but I am not holding my breath.
FYI for those that have electric cars. It appears that secondary schools are now having to have fitted (in accordance with government guidelines apparently) up to 8 electric car charging points (4no that will charge cars up within 30 mins and 4no that trickle charge over six hours) and anyone can use them, according to my friend Darren who is having to manage their implementation in all the schools in Leeds.
Another good idea, move all of the pollution to the power stations. I wonder how long this one will last before the government realise that they are losing revenue because of electric cars and find some other way to compensate for the loss. Can you imagine an electric Ducati? There would have to be a noise generator to replicate that L twin noise and before you know it every spotty faced youth would have one fitted to his electric moped!
