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Title: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: STEMO on 05 December 2016, 17:49:14
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Andy B on 05 December 2016, 17:52:32
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......

I know someone that got fined for not re-taxing or SORNing his £0 historic P6B Rover
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 05 December 2016, 18:56:09
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......

I pay £45 a month times two........you smug bastard. :-\ ;)
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: STEMO on 05 December 2016, 19:20:07
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......

I pay £45 a month times two........you smug bastard. :-\ ;)
Hmmmm......a couple of omegas just for your tax. Good job you're well and truly minted.  :)
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Andy B on 05 December 2016, 19:21:17
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I pay £45 a month times two........you smug bastard. :-\ ;)

that's about what I pay for four cars  ;)
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: STEMO on 05 December 2016, 19:27:47
My astra is £130.. can't be arsed breaking that down to £10 odd a month.
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: BazaJT on 05 December 2016, 20:02:44
I believe it all changes again next year so new cars do have to pay rfl charge?However I seem to recall it's not retrospective,so cars with £0 rfl now will still be £0.Classic cars are on a rolling exemption of 40yrs old or something?
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 05 December 2016, 20:13:46
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......

I pay £45 a month times two........you smug bastard. :-\ ;)
Hmmmm......a couple of omegas just for your tax. Good job you're well and truly minted.  :)

Just one small step from destitution. :'(
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Entwood on 05 December 2016, 20:25:00
I believe it all changes again next year so new cars do have to pay rfl charge?However I seem to recall it's not retrospective,so cars with £0 rfl now will still be £0.Classic cars are on a rolling exemption of 40yrs old or something?

No such thing I'm afraid .. and not since 1955 ... correct term is Vehicle Excise Duty, as it had nowt to do with roads whatsoever.  :)

As to having to "pay" £0.00, it is simply a way of keeping track of the vehicle AND ITS OWNER .. otherwise you could get rid of the car without informing DVLA, and they would never know. If you think about it fully, it actually makes a lot of sense .. look at it as "free registration" ... :)
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Andy B on 05 December 2016, 20:58:20
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No such thing I'm afraid ..  ....

We know  ::). Even the government knows, hence if you search for RFL (https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=road%20fund%20licence), the top of the list is https://www.gov.uk/calculate-vehicle-tax-rates
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: tunnie on 05 December 2016, 21:43:39
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......

I pay £45 a month times two........you smug bastard. :-\ ;)

It's all a load of rubbish these car tax band things, 2.8T Signum is £45/m, yet a 3.0 BMW in a 2 Series is £20/m

Punishing people for using older cars, just because they are a tad dirtier.  :(
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: ozzycat on 05 December 2016, 21:47:30
my car is very expencive on cartax i pay£000 :P :P :P :P
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: TheBoy on 06 December 2016, 08:09:49
£0........if you don't renew it, you'll get a fine. I can either do it online or at a post office. Sigh......

I pay £45 a month times two........you smug bastard. :-\ ;)

It's all a load of rubbish these car tax band things, 2.8T Signum is £45/m, yet a 3.0 BMW in a 2 Series is £20/m

Punishing people for using older cars, just because they are a tad dirtier.  :(
It's not a case of being dirtier, it's based on some random figure (co2). Everyone knows tractors are the "dirtiest" and most harmful. Technically, my 232k 3.0l is cleaner than your 2.0 tractor by some margin, but ved doesn't reflect that
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Kevin Wood on 06 December 2016, 09:42:33
It's not a case of being dirtier, it's based on some random figure (co2). Everyone knows tractors are the "dirtiest" and most harmful. Technically, my 232k 3.0l is cleaner than your 2.0 tractor by some margin, but ved doesn't reflect that

I suspect it won't be long before it does, though. ;)
Title: Re: Got the tax renewal notice for wifey's car today
Post by: Viral_Jim on 06 December 2016, 23:25:11
I suspect it won't be long before it does, though. ;)

Tricky with a road (and diesel based) economy. Nothing viable has appeared to replace it, on a commercial scale at least for commercial vehicles.

Personally I'd have no problem buying a diesel ATM, I reckon there's at least a decade left in it before we truly start to make a move to kill the vehicles off (rather than just saying we want to). After all, 2017's VED shakeup was the perfect opportunity to do it if the government wished it so. In truth, it's barely had any impact. In fact, the biggest losers (in absolute terms) have been the high value electrics/hybrids which breach the £40k marker. Some encouragement to "go green"  ;D

The diesels will have "bought themselves" in fuel savings long before they're taxed off the road.