Taxed your Z today ??

[Thrustyjust]

Beemer £330, Volvo £145, Skoda £20 , which works out at £165 a car. But, if I sorn the Zed for 3 months, then it works out at £137.50 each, so manageable

 

[firebobby]

The car tax rates are getting more stupid by the year IMO, if "emissions" are the basis criteria.
You have two cars that are less than 5 years old and would be £100 a year tax band . If they both cost more than £40k new, then that is trebled up until 5 years. Your emissions for both would be, lets say, 250g/CO2/Km. £600
You have two cars registered before 2001, with combined emissions of 600g/CO2/Km, you pay £410 a year.

The above is a rough estimate, so don't shoot me, the point is you will pay less road tax for old polluting cars than newer less polluting ones, when our wonderful Government is supposed to base it on CO2 emissions!

So effectively, your road tax is "means tested", not based on emissions. If you can afford expensive cars (although £40k is not an expensive car anymore), you pay sunshine. If you run around in ratty old cars, you must be poor so we won't come after you.

The longer a car is kept from the crusher, the smaller it's co2 footprint. The biggest polluting part of any vehicle is when it's being made.
So our old bangers are saving the planet
And thanks for the good wishes

 

[tug]

Wouldn't it be great if a proportion of this went on the upkeep/repair of the roads like it used to. Or, towards giving the nurses a decent pay rise! But then again a large proportion of it probably goes to prop up foreign economies and the f'kin BBC. :x


Good luck with the op mate, hope it goes well

 

[AndyBeech]

I "unSORNed" mine in advance on 29th March, effective from 1st April, and paid the £330 rate. The new rate of £340 came into effect today, so purely by chance I saved myself a tenner!

Hope the op goes OK Fred.

How do you do that? Didn't see an option for that on the gov website, could only tax it from the day you apply for it?

Guessing you did that at a PO?

 

[Conrod]

I "unSORNed" mine in advance on 29th March, effective from 1st April, and paid the £330 rate. The new rate of £340 came into effect today, so purely by chance I saved myself a tenner!

Hope the op goes OK Fred.

How do you do that? Didn't see an option for that on the gov website, could only tax it from the day you apply for it?

Guessing you did that at a PO?

I did it online, and it gave me the option of a commencement date of 1st March or the 1st April. Previously I've always waited until the 1st to unSORN, and I've not been offered a choice of dates before. So either the system has changed, or maybe this option only appears if the application date is within a few days of the month end?

 

[ShaunKC]

I "unSORNed" mine in advance on 29th March, effective from 1st April, and paid the £330 rate. The new rate of £340 came into effect today, so purely by chance I saved myself a tenner!

Hope the op goes OK Fred.

How do you do that? Didn't see an option for that on the gov website, could only tax it from the day you apply for it?

Guessing you did that at a PO?

I did it online, and it gave me the option of a commencement date of 1st March or the 1st April. Previously I've always waited until the 1st to unSORN, and I've not been offered a choice of dates before. So either the system has changed, or maybe this option only appears if the application date is within a few days of the month end?

That’s really worth knowing, I’ll try that next time.

 

[pvr]

I don’t know you could tax in advance? I waited until April 1 and paid £340 for the 911.

 

[AndyBeech]

I "unSORNed" mine in advance on 29th March, effective from 1st April, and paid the £330 rate. The new rate of £340 came into effect today, so purely by chance I saved myself a tenner!

Hope the op goes OK Fred.

How do you do that? Didn't see an option for that on the gov website, could only tax it from the day you apply for it?

Guessing you did that at a PO?

I did it online, and it gave me the option of a commencement date of 1st March or the 1st April. Previously I've always waited until the 1st to unSORN, and I've not been offered a choice of dates before. So either the system has changed, or maybe this option only appears if the application date is within a few days of the month end?

Well I went to tax mine on the 30th just to see if there was an option (never has been before but thought I'd give it a try), deffo not for me, was from 1st March or nothing at all. You either got lucky or I got unlucky...wierd. I do choose to pay by direct debit monthly though, maybe that makes a difference.

I don’t know you could tax in advance? I waited until April 1 and paid £340 for the 911.

This is my understanding also, never been able to do it in advance so far. Not a big deal by any means just strange how it works for some and not others.

 

[AlphaEchoAlpha]

Not quite, but this got taxed on the 1st. Full fat tax bracket too, hey at least it's fun!

 

[Mr Tidy]

Not quite, but this got taxed on the 1st. Full fat tax bracket too, hey at least it's fun!

In that tax bracket it has to be fun! That's what I reminded myself when I renewed the tax on my MC.

Lovely pair of cars you have there.

 

[ronk]

Now have the Discovery for towing duties, it's a 1994, so cheaper to tax.

I bought a D3 in March 2006 - it was 7days too new when the new tax scheme was introduced :thumbsdown:

Hope the op all goes to plan for you

 

[firebobby]

Now have the Discovery for towing duties, it's a 1994, so cheaper to tax.

I bought a D3 in March 2006 - it was 7days too new when the new tax scheme was introduced :thumbsdown:

Hope the op all goes to plan for you

It's a ridiculous tax and needs to be replaced with tax on fuel or vehicle usage. That would be a fairer system IMHO.
Now self isolating after blood and Covid test yesterday, thanks.