Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ?

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Thu 26 May 2011 18:36
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - Surrey_Scientist

Does anyone know if the concession on Road Tax for vehicles that are over 225g/km CO2 but registered Mar 2001- Mar2006 is going to remain ....

Currently those over 225g/km have been allowed to go into band K instead of L or M provided they are within those dates.

I am considering buying a larger petrol car which will fall into this bracket, so would currently cost £260 to tax, but wouldn't want to get stung with £450 which it could go up to if they revoke this concession

I don''t do the mileage to justify a diesel, nor would I want the huge repair bills, but I need a larger estate car

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Thu 26 May 2011 19:19
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - veryoldbear

If one could read the mind on the Chancellor and his advisers one would be a rich man ... I wouldn't bet on it.

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Thu 26 May 2011 19:56
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - unthrottled

The LPG crowd are in the same boat, although I'm still unsure at where the justification for the that particular tax break comes from-the emissions aren't all that different.

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Fri 27 May 2011 09:03
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - TeeCee

That'll be because that was put in place before CO2 became the Be All And End All and Europe disappeared under a near-permanent cloud of yellowish diesel generated fug.

When you look at emissions across the board, rather than just pandering to the CO2-botherers, LPG does rather well.

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Fri 27 May 2011 11:34
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - gordonbennet

If a politician (with a small handful of honourable exceptions) told you it was sunny outside you'd have to pop out and check.

The risk of this stopped me buying into that age group of high CO2 car, only in the fullness of time will we know.

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Fri 27 May 2011 14:04
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - Surrey_Scientist

part of me thinks the politician/party concerned would be so unpopular for doing this that they prob wouldn't try.....

I know several families where both paents have cars in this category so many middle classes would be hit with a £900 a year road-tax bill that this prob wouldn't be a vote-winner....

isn't that why the concession was made....

then again they are desperate to pull in the cash and look "green"

However that means a whole raft of people stuck with cars that are expensive to tax and also prob worthless 2nd-hand.

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Fri 27 May 2011 15:20
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - gordonbennet

part of me thinks the politician/party concerned would be so unpopular for doing this that they prob wouldn't try.....

If you recall this retrospective VED for high CO2 groups was supposed to have come in about 3 years ago, but was postponed till 2011 following massive anti publicity.
If i recall it was supposed to fall in line with current levels for post 06 cars, so it's still a concession.

Anything could happen, and has been proven over many generations the electorate have short memories, are easily fooled by smarmy snake oil salesmen, and cheaply bribed.
You only had to be a regular here, on a pro motoring forum to read posts from motorists who seemed to be of the opinion that £450 VED wasn't anywhere near enough for the heathens who dared to drive a 4x4.
Would the upping of the VED in the years in question be enough to make a difference at election time?, i don't know, enough anti large engined car people might vote for, to counterbalance those who voted against.


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Fri 27 May 2011 14:47
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - unthrottled

a near-permanent cloud of yellowish diesel generated fug

NOx and soot are a lot worse from diesels. Diesel users are whining about Euro V but it is still less strict than for petrols. But port injected petrols are pretty clean, and soot emissions are negligible except for cold starting and hard acceleration. (GDI gets a little bit dicey). So, no, I still don't see the justification for the generous tax break on LPG.

Edited by unthrottled on 27/05/2011 at 14:54

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Fri 27 May 2011 20:05
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - oldroverboy

I am considering buying a larger petrol car which will fall into this bracket, so would currently cost £260 to tax, but wouldn't want to get stung with £450

That makes it £4 a week.! If in your calculations you are buying an older vehicle (I assume) you won't be paying much in vat to the chancellor, maintaining it at a local garage won't be at main dealer prices, you won't be doing many miles either, so be happy and get what you want. Mr Osborne made almost nothing out of my last purchase and i'm not changing it for a while. i bought a large unpopular car at clearance prices with a huge warranty and i'm getting around 43mpg. I didn't specially want what i've got but it has been utterly reliable and is cheap to tax and insure, especially bearing in mind my wife has only been driving for year on a uk licence. (car= chevrolet epica vcdi cost £6745 on the road used by chevrolet for 6 months, sat on dealer forcourt for 6 months... then reduced then reduced...then reduced.. bought for cash, train fare £21 to collect... Happy motoring..

PS what car is it?

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Sat 28 May 2011 13:28
Road tax Concession for > 225g/km - will it stay ? - Surrey_Scientist

Honda accord 2.4 Auto Estate

prob 2003 or 2004 model..... The buyers guides seem to saygo for the bigger engine with he auto/estateas it drives better.... and I fancy a little performance if Iam going tohave an estate car.

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