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Mon 26 Feb 2001 21:55

VED - Alvin Booth

I have just renewed the road tax on my Vectra 2.0 DTi which cost £160.00
On the Internet site www.dvla.gov.uk/newved.htm it gives the cost of VED for all new cars registered after April 2001.
The duty for the Vectra with the same engine will be £130.00.
Considering that the object of these new rates was designed to punish the polluters and reward the goodies is there something I am missing here.
(apart from £30.00 of course)

Alvin Booth

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Mon 26 Feb 2001 22:10

Re: VED - Roger Keene

The new car rates are based on emissions.
Other rates are based on engine size.

rk

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Tue 27 Feb 2001 19:37

Re: VED - John Slaughter

Yes, and the new C02 emission based rates only apply to cars registered after March 2001. Older vehicles haven't been through the same test to determine CO2 emissions, so the two 'old' rates apply, based just on engine size.

regards

John

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Sat 3 Mar 2001 16:26

Re: VED - chris

I bought a new car in September 2000, and was wondering if anyone could tell me how it will be charged. Is it by CO2 emissions or engine size?

Also do the charges apply to used cars as well?

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Thu 1 Mar 2001 22:56

Re: VED - Tristan Chaize

Electric vehicles used to be VED free. Mrs Thatcher put it up to £35 (or 30. Can't remember) Neither here nor there methinks. It's called politics. Pity Ken Clarke is not PM. Get a classic pre 1.1.73.

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