Proposed Car Tax

[Huttonite]

I've tried other web sites to no avail.
Can anyone tell me, if Gordon Brown proceeds with this stealth tax which is about the size of a submarine out of control above water, what I may have to pay on a Vauxhall Astra, 1.6 aged seven years old?

[Toureman]

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/

[Huttonite]

Thanks for your help.

[Ethel]

It's hardly a stealth tax - we've known about it for some time and it is optional to a point.

You can choose the car you drive, or don't drive.

[Huttonite]

Ethel, with respect, I did choose the car within what I could afford. I am not in the income bracket whereby I can pick a car that is, according to the government, eco-firendly. I am restricted financially to buying a car that is second-hand so I cannot consider any newer model that is now 'greener'.
As for the other option to driving, I live in a rural area. It is well resourced by a train service that gets you to the main towns but elsewhere is problematic with a skeleton bus service. There was a time, and I remember it well from my childhood in North Wales, that buses reached most of the outlying communities from my home town. I could write you an essay on why this will never happen again.
My son uses the bus service to take him on a journey which is less than one mile and it costs him �2. This will increase, no doubt, because of the rise in fuel costs and the owners will see it as a sharp opportunity to add a bit more on to the 'hike'. It is not operated according to a regulated hourly basis because the purpose of its operation is based on financial return, etc, etc.
This country's fabric of cities, towns and villages has been determined by motorised transport and it's going to take many years for the issue to be redressed.

[wee willie]

so ! will older cars be void from co2 emmission testing on mot's ?

[Panic Button]

No, its nothing to do with MOTs. They will all still be tested for emissions at MOT

Cars registered pre 91 are taxed on engine size.
Post 91 it is done on theoretical CO2 emissions.

[kempie]

^^^ 2001 not 1991

[Panic Button]

Sorry, yes.