Road tax
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I have just renewed mine S3 67 plate. Was £140 now £145. Still, is is cheaper than my 2007 Golf GTI ED30
Mine went from £140-£145 this year, I just had the renewal through.
I pay car & house insurance, tax etc in one hit to avoid the big extra chunk they put on for monthly payments, but with the car tax it works out £7.25 extra over the year, so I do it monthly, it's easy to sell the car and cancel it rather than be waiting around for a refund.
I pay car & house insurance, tax etc in one hit to avoid the big extra chunk they put on for monthly payments, but with the car tax it works out £7.25 extra over the year, so I do it monthly, it's easy to sell the car and cancel it rather than be waiting around for a refund.
To be fair both times my road tax refund have come through within a week. My renewal is in February and will be £465
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To be fair both times my road tax refund have come through within a week. My renewal is in February and will be £465
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Ouch!.. Thats £435 more than I pay.
Yikes is that with the extra for being over £40k?To be fair both times my road tax refund have come through within a week. My renewal is in February and will be £465
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Should just get rid of ‘car tax’ completely and wack it on fuel. Easily the fairest system. Still ‘free’ for electric cars and more miles you do in an ICE vehicle, more you pay. Never understood how it was fair someone who did 3k miles paid the same as someone who did 30k. Plus would save a huge amount of money from the administration of it all. Only complication is the newer luxury tax but could still have it, just an extra tax on vehicle purchase.
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To be honest £200 a year is nothing really is it? 0.55p a day.
We've seen on here many times people complaining that the car TAX is too much for them to afford. Yet they were looking at a new S3 for £500+ a month on PCP or whatever. Just the same with the Licence fee. 40p a day, and people are up in arms about it.
Yet the same people spend
£80 a month on a SKY subscription
£350 car payments.
£12.50+ a day of Fags.
£50-60 a week on a night out
But then blame the government for not having enough money to pay for road tax or licence fee. We all have a choice how we live our lives and spend our money. If you think life is tough now, just wait till Labour get back into Government and raise Taxes. Labour have historically gone after the motor car as a way of raising revenue. They know we all need our cars and will pay whatever to keep them.
This isn't aimed at the OP. But just in general to car Tax moans over the years on here.
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While they are at it they should stop petrol stations from issuing fuel to cars without insurance, that’d lower the amount of uninsured drivers on the road. Especially as there’s so much technology around now a days I don’t know why it’s not possible
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I do agree with the points you make, my main gripe with the current road tax system is it’s done on list price not the actual price you pay, for instance my S5 was over £55k list and I paid just over £30k 9 months later, yet I pay the £550 odd road tax. Plus why should someone pay the same extra supplement for over £40k list that buys a £41k car vs a £200k car... that aspect doesn’t make sense and isn’t fair.
But hey ho life isn’t fair, not much we can do about it
Yes, that has been suggested before. But why would they? They can still charge you annual road Tax, and then up the fuel price too. Us as car owners, are the Governments cash cows
I like the concept but surely that would drive a dramatic increase in number plates being cloned and all the pain it brings to the legitimate owner of the plate? If driving a car with a cloned plate then less incentive to pay for fuel so the legitimate owner gets hit for that too.
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True, there must be some workable solution though maybe a scannable card or something you get from your insurance, sure there is a few things that could be tried.
Mind you with electric cars in the future it’s not an issue that’s going to be around for very long anyway
Of course they will, how else will they raise the extra money to pay all the lazy gits with 'bad backs' and 'bad knees' to sit at home all day doing nothing. Oh and not to mention all the money they give to the local sl4g who breeds like a rabbit!
My mates wife is a teacher, she knows of a woman who has 12 kids (2 are twins) there are 11 dads!!!
Of course they will, how else will they raise the extra money to pay all the lazy gits with 'bad backs' and 'bad knees' to sit at home all day doing nothing. Oh and not to mention all the money they give to the local sl4g who breeds like a rabbit!
My mates wife is a teacher, she knows of a woman who has 12 kids (2 are twins) there are 11 dads!!!
And they've recently announced that they are going to immediately (if they get in) take off the 2 child limit for benefits. As well as taking off the Benefit cap.
Labour. The party which gives sitting on your @rse all day doing f**k-all a genuine lifestyle choice !
Let’s be balanced though, both main parties and most of the smaller ones are a shower of sh*te at the moment. Politics needs a drastic reform.
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True, there must be some workable solution though maybe a scannable card or something you get from your insurance, sure there is a few things that could be tried.
Mind you with electric cars in the future it’s not an issue that’s going to be around for very long anyway
And when electric car do become common place, how will the Government raise taxes? Either Whopping huge annual Car Tax, which for anyone not using their car much, will be very unfair. Or they raise the price of electricity. Which means boiling a kettle will cost you £5.
Or the other way which has been mentioned, is cameras on every road throughout the land. So wherever and whenever you drive somewhere, big Brother is watching you and Taxing you accordingly. Also fining you for speeding and minor traffic offences at the same time.
Another rip off Britian. Pay over £40.000 for a car & we will hit you for the top bracket in tax. As posted earlier should be on petrol then those who use the roads most pay the most. Fairest way to me?.
Oh in the news yesterday, a single mum with 2 kids, she is working part time and she's moaning that her wages of £900+ benefits only comes to £2,000 per month and she can't manage and wants more!!!
Quite sickening really. I don't know why I'm bothering working and studying for a qualification when I could just sit at home
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It's called self respect mate and wanting to make something of your life, rather than scrounging off the state.Quite sickening really. I don't know why I'm bothering working and studying for a qualification when I could just sit at home
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Plus the obvious fact that you can't get pregnant and have 4 kids with 4 different dads! If you could you'd make millions lol
And Labour will happily give her more, while Taxing those who work to pay for it all.
I'm self employed and a Limited company, so I'm going to get hammered the most by Labour. 35% corporation tax. They don't understand that I'm not a huge corporation with huge profits. I'm a sole trader trying to earn a living. I've had 2 companies that provided me with lots of work close down over the last 18 months. The second best bust only last month, and owed me money.
In my job I can't invoice weekly either. It could be weeks before I'm in a position to invoice. I then have to wait a few weeks for the invoice to get paid. So I need money in reserve.
I have another company that still hasn't paid my invoice from July. I chase daily and keep getting flogged off. "It just needs signing off. You'll get it in a few days"
So as a sole trader, I need to put money aside each year so when I get a late payment, or no payment, I can still pay myself. Labour what to take 35% of those funds away, to give to the "Can't be @rsed gang". So I run the risk of running out of money, while those on Benefits are guaranteed their cash.
Boils my p***. Yet my own mother will vote Labour. She's always voted Labour and always will. When you point (or try to point) these things out, you can see her eyes glaze over. "Not interested, I always vote Labour" Arrgghh !!!
Know what you're saying mate, I have a mate who runs his own business and he tells me much the same, chasing money he's owed from before summer. My wife does all the ordering for the company that she works for, sometimes the orders don't come in! When she calls them to see why, it's because her company hasn't paid the bill from 2-3 months back, so they don't send anything in until they do...they are all at it.
I went to see a mates dad a few months back who was very ill in bed, whilst there he said to his son/my mate if anything happens there is money in a tin under the floor over there and money in a tin under the floor in the spare room. The next day he had to go into hospital (it looked bad) so me and my mate pulled the carpet up and found a couple of floorboards cut, we lifted them up and found £50k between both tins! A note in each saying "legit money f*** the tax man", his dad had worked for himself all his life
Thankfully his dad is now OK, but we rib him now we know his secret
I also know what you mean, my dad runs his own business and through my job I see how tough tax is on self employed people (essentially end up being taxed twice).
On the flip side my job means working with a lot of larger companies so you see all these cash management methods such as delaying payment. It's tough on small companies as without the orders from the big companies they'd be out of business so have no leg to stand on really when asking for prompt payment. Very tough
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That is because Sky, Latest mobile Phones, tablets, laptops, Game consoles, 70" TV's, fags, booze etc is really really pricey...these are just BASIC necessities
Yes I think no TV and sky is a breach of human rights...sure I read that somewhereThat is because Sky, Latest mobile Phones, tablets, laptops, Game consoles, 70" TV's, fags, booze etc is really really pricey...these are just BASIC necessities
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Yep the manual is in the next group - Would have been £500 when new under the current rules until Audi made it S-Tronic only so went down a group £200 new and £145 (Currently)
