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Malcolm

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hi everyone!! Just a little moan about how much the z4s tax is starting to rise every year £290 this year, I think it was £260 last year!! Where is al this money going, it certainly isn't towards road maintenance. My car has only done 37k in ten years and still looks like new, how can this car be such a polluter that it warrants this kind of tax prise :evil: :fuelfire: . Comments welcomed.
 
VED does not rise by £30 in a year. My E89 was £285 last year and is £290 this year. You find that VED increases in March/April each year and usually by £5/£10 at the most.

As for the money Vehicle Excise Duty goes into the massive pot of money that they goverment get from all taxation and then its divided up as the treasury sees fit.

Unfortunately we seem to spend more and more on new roads and councils etc seem to have little money for road repairs, upgrades and mantanince after they pay for all the other services. Althoug usually you find that road repairs are done February and March time when councils seem to want to use up any budget they have although sorting roads in snow, wind, rain and cold is not ideal conditions.
 
Monthly direct debit is the way forward, well worth the 5% premium IMHO.

A better way of doing it would be to put everything on fuel, I wouldn't mind paying £1.50 a litre if that included VED and third party insurance, maybe even £2... More you use, more you pay.
 
Think you've got problems. For the ///M and the Discovery I pay £500 each per year. That said, they are both daily drives.
 
A better way of doing it would be to put everything on fuel, I wouldn't mind paying £1.50 a litre if that included VED and third party insurance, maybe even £2... More you use, more you pay.
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I'd go along with that every time.
 
Agree re tax at the pump. High milers should pay their way.

In 2012 when I bought my car I paid £260 to tax, the next year was £270, £280 last year and this year will be £290. So £10 a year rise year on year isnt awful but isnt great
 
I don't know what the reason is for not putting VED on @ the pump.
Surely the cash strapped government would collect more £'s.

I do 35/40k per year in my DD. New last year the first year was free then it's £20 per year for poss 40k miles.
It's diesel which is supposed to be the new devil according to Boris Johnson.

My weekend toy does about but probably less than 2k miles and costs £290 which is causing the most pollution ?
 
RickRob said:
Think you've got problems. For the ///M and the Discovery I pay £500 each per year. That said, they are both daily drives.
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I bought my D3 just before I retired then the labour govt of the day decided I should be punished.
If I'd bought the same car a week earlier it would have been ok !
 
StevenH72 said:
just because nobody has said it yet......VED is not a "car tax" :poke:
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Technically it is a 'car tax' but it's not Road Tax and that's where problems arise as people think that paying any kind of car or road tax pays for the up keep of the roads but it's not at all. Just like all he tax paid on alcohol and cigarettes is not diverted straight to the NHS.

I agree that putting it on fuel would be a much better way. I'd pay considerably less than I do currently. It never quite makes sense that you pay due to how much the engine omits and therefore 'pollutes' however doing less than 3k a year in decent long runs doesn't mean you 'pollute' as much as someone in the same at doing 20k a year.
 
Surely, when you choose any car, you weigh up the overall cost of ownership before you make a decision and if you don't like the cost of ownership, (be it tax, insurance, maintenance, whatever) the you choose a different car?
 
DLH said:
Surely, when you choose any car, you weigh up the overall cost of ownership before you make a decision and if you don't like the cost of ownership, (be it tax, insurance, maintenance, whatever) the you choose a different car?
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You are obviously gifted with wisdom & logic David , i do try to apply that to some extent but i know my son of 22 doesn't so i guess it relates to age ,
"Can't put a wise head on young shoulders " i think the saying goes :wink:
How's the M going ? Are you getting out in it on those new wheels :driving:
 
mr wilks said:
DLH said:
Surely, when you choose any car, you weigh up the overall cost of ownership before you make a decision and if you don't like the cost of ownership, (be it tax, insurance, maintenance, whatever) the you choose a different car?
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You are obviously gifted with wisdom & logic David , i do try to apply that to some extent but i know my son of 22 doesn't so i guess it relates to age ,
"Can't put a wise head on young shoulders " i think the saying goes :wink:
How's the M going ? Are you getting out in it on those new wheels :driving:
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The M is now back on the road after a winter layoff and going well. :driving:
I'm still keeping the S-Class on the road too for those trips where the roads are crappy. :roll:
The Roadster can stay in the garage for another month or two, probably until after we get back from a spending June in California. :)
 
DLH said:
Surely, when you choose any car, you weigh up the overall cost of ownership before you make a decision and if you don't like the cost of ownership, (be it tax, insurance, maintenance, whatever) the you choose a different car?
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I did that - then Gordon Brown etc saw me as a demon polluter and vastly Increased the ved on my car!
 
DLH said:
Surely, when you choose any car, you weigh up the overall cost of ownership before you make a decision and if you don't like the cost of ownership, (be it tax, insurance, maintenance, whatever) the you choose a different car?
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No, it's not like that at all. You find the car(s) you want, buy it(them) and then ask: "I wonder what this(these ) will cost to run"! :P
 
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