Road Tax - What are you paying?

[BoroBoy]

Just paid £320 for the pleasure to drive on shitty under maintained roads.

 

[moomin-j]

It seems like a panel van (with windows) road tax is similar to that Yazz & Plastic Populations song title from the late 80's...

This is what I've increasingly paid over the last 5 years :

 

[DXX]

Someone‘s got to pay for all those cones and blokes leaning on shovels checking their phones!
Other than a quick and totally ruthless revolution there is no choice other than chancing it.

 

[DaveCrampton]

My Shuttle is 6 years old, so having checked the DVLA I am no longer paying £480 each year. It's due on 1st June. The wife checked online but I'll publish the amount once I receive the notice.

 

[DaveBos]

Mine is taxed from the start of May, every year the V11 states a lower price than I actually pay, this year it was £320, 2016 Euro 5 Kombi. The Grand California, is £200 a year if I remember rightly mind you the GC doesn’t get as used as much, but is a larger, heavier vehicle.

 

[Gàirnealair]

2021 plate
T28 Highline

Monthly DD is £25.81, so that puts it around £310 for the year.

 

[dubber36]

£178.75 for 6 (summer) months for my Mk2 Golf GTI. Last year I did about 300 miles in it. How many emissions did it pump out compared to a little car doing 10,000miles and paying £20 for the year?

Given how little I use it, I'll get my enjoyment from looking at it for the next few years until it's 40.

 

[cgtmiles]

£320 paid yesterday

 

[Bav]

£178.75 for 6 (summer) months for my Mk2 Golf GTI. Last year I did about 300 miles in it. How many emissions did it pump out compared to a little car doing 10,000miles and paying £20 for the year?

Given how little I use it, I'll get my enjoyment from looking at it for the next few years until it's 40.

That sounds dangerously like to a call for pay-per-mile road taxing.

 

[Rabkia]

Taxed my new van yesterday t30 6.1 £320 nearly fell through the floor

 

[dubber36]

That sounds dangerously like to a call for pay-per-mile road taxing.

If it was added to, no wait, included in the cost of fuel, it would have a direct correlation to the amount of emissions each vehicle produced.

 

[DaveCrampton]

2017 plate Shuttle SE, 150 bhp, 157 G/KM, now:-

 

[CAB]

2017 plate Shuttle SE, 150 bhp, 157 G/KM, now:-
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The advantages of a passenger vehicle.

 

[DaveCrampton]

The advantages of a passenger vehicle.

Well, not quite. As the original new sale price was over £40k the VED charge was ~£480 on years two to five after registration. Not that I bought it new.

 

[mjn]

I think I read electric vehicles are going to be charged £165 a year from 2025.

 

[Bav]

I think I read electric vehicles are going to be charged £165 a year from 2025.

The start of the end of "oh, aren't electric vehicles cheap to run"

 

[Trouts]

The start of the end of "oh, aren't electric vehicles cheap to run"

well they are if you're comparing the £165 to the £320 some/most of us seem to be paying?

 

[Bav]

well they are if you're comparing the £165 to the £320 some/most of us seem to be paying?

As I say, it's just the start. Replacing the revenue previously paid for by ICE users is utterly inevitable.

 

[Trouts]

As I say, it's just the start. Replacing the revenue previously paid for by ICE users is utterly inevitable.

yeah of course, two things are certain in life an' all that...

talking of which, renewal through today. £320 (on a 2016 Highline Kombi)

 

[t6blo]

2019 T6 150 factory Kombi - £320 May 2023.

Can someone explain what this money pays for? Our local roads are like the surface of the moon and getting worse by the day