dynamix wrote:phew - so jan 06 is fine
rather close call there dunc.... we were thinking of getting an 08 scoob but @
The Budget
yep - bit close and not until reading page 228 of the budget report PDF did I really confirm that.
Having now read the details I can see this doing absolutely nothing to dent car useage - it will, however, slow down (or kill) sales of new cars over 220 grams CO2. Second hand market will be buoyed by it though and the market for tuning companies to make older cars better will grow as people will want to keep themselves out off the higher road fund licence levels.
In my opinion the RFL chould be scrapped and the difference made up in a small tax rise on petrol - would need to be 1 or 2 p to counteract the tax raised through RFL after removing the expenses of running the RFL system and checkign for it. There would never then be a car without RFL and no need for static checkign of RFL or the massive computer systems that check whether cars SORNED etc etc.... think of the money that could be saved.
I feel sorry for anyone that bought a new car in the last year (AdamP) as they are going to get retrospectively clobbered for this psuedo green tax on a purchase when the information was not available at the time to make a reasoned decision.... not exactly fair to retrospectively tax IMO.
As far as the rest of the smoke and mirrors approach of Gordo ....
- simplify a tax system that he complicated in the first place
- tax lower earners more (strange policy ???)
- rely on a very costly to run means tested tax credit system to prop up income for these low earners where statistically most eligible do not claim and when claimed there is nothing to stop them claiming the money back in the future through some cock-up
- kick small businesses in the balls through the tax system (as if all of these are doing superbly and can afford to subsidise the big business tax cut)
- cut tax for big business so that the chiefs vote Gordo at the forthcoming elections
Sorry bit of a rant but politics is my thang ... if I hadnt got so many skeletons in the closet I would stand myself
Having now read the details I can see this doing absolutely nothing to dent car useage - it will, however, slow down (or kill) sales of new cars over 220 grams CO2. Second hand market will be buoyed by it though and the market for tuning companies to make older cars better will grow as people will want to keep themselves out off the higher road fund licence levels.
In my opinion the RFL chould be scrapped and the difference made up in a small tax rise on petrol - would need to be 1 or 2 p to counteract the tax raised through RFL after removing the expenses of running the RFL system and checkign for it. There would never then be a car without RFL and no need for static checkign of RFL or the massive computer systems that check whether cars SORNED etc etc.... think of the money that could be saved.
I feel sorry for anyone that bought a new car in the last year (AdamP) as they are going to get retrospectively clobbered for this psuedo green tax on a purchase when the information was not available at the time to make a reasoned decision.... not exactly fair to retrospectively tax IMO.
As far as the rest of the smoke and mirrors approach of Gordo ....
- simplify a tax system that he complicated in the first place
- tax lower earners more (strange policy ???)
- rely on a very costly to run means tested tax credit system to prop up income for these low earners where statistically most eligible do not claim and when claimed there is nothing to stop them claiming the money back in the future through some cock-up
- kick small businesses in the balls through the tax system (as if all of these are doing superbly and can afford to subsidise the big business tax cut)
- cut tax for big business so that the chiefs vote Gordo at the forthcoming elections
Sorry bit of a rant but politics is my thang ... if I hadnt got so many skeletons in the closet I would stand myself