Budget Calculator

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442946

A simple but effective way to see if you will be better off after this budget.

[ichkeria]

Another way is to check your age and the number of children you have.
Old and childless good young and with lots of children bad
In fact young=bad full stop

[mikey4444]

As a 62 year old bachelor, with no children, earning a reasonable wage. I will be £80 a year better off according to the calculator. But potentially worse off if I change my car.

[naomi24]

You'll still be £80 better off if you change it for one that falls into the cheaper category. Chin up! Good news! ;o)

[mikey4444]

Naomi...I have already pointed out that in order to pay no VED in the future, it would appear that I and everybody else would need to but a Nissan Leaf, which just isn't practical, in any shape or form.

And you still haven't told me what car YOU drive.

[naomi24]

My car is irrelevant. I don't mind paying for what I drive.

[mikey4444]

I agree but relevant enough to tell other people what cars they should buy it would seem.

The reason that Osborne is raising this tax, is to spend it on roads, which is laudable. He says that the VED will be ring-fenced but we have heard that before. It will only be a matter of time before he, or a future Chancellor, raids this pot, in order to pay for a tax reduction.

[retrocop]

£160 p.a. better off and still pay the same VED. No complaints there. :-)

[naomi24]

Mikey, no one's telling you which car to buy. You have a choice. Pay for what you want, or don't pay for what you don't want.

[mikey4444]

Retrocop...I am glad for you !

[retrocop]

Mikey
Why don't you just keep your Fiesta and run it into the ground and you will keep your zero rate VED. You only wanted a similar new model. Most people purchase the car that suits their needs and VED is a minor consideration when you consider the initial cost of a new car.

[Old_Geezer]

"young=bad full stop"
I'd like to offer any young person who thinks they are not old enough some of my years. I could do with a reduction.

"I don't mind paying for what I drive."
Aye that's ok if you don't mind being used/abused as a cash cow. Some of us object.

[mikey4444]

Retrocop....I am not sure what I will be doing in 2 years time, but its been my practise to change every 3 years, as I do quite a lot of mileage every year, using my car for work.

To be frank, the extra VED won't brake me, but I am not happy with the government using us drivers as a milch cow. When a previous government changed over to an emissions-based tax, a lot of people changed to driving cars that had less or no VED. But all that is now being undone by these present plans.

[ToraToraTora]

woo hoo I'm £141 better off, I drive 2 cars and 2 motor bikes.

[retrocop]

Mikey
So what is new.The driver has always been a milch cow whatever party rules.
Soon as I bought my first diesel car many years ago when the price of diesel was nothing they suddenly introduced Unleaded petrol with a sweetener of cost reduction. They put the price of diesel up at the same time and screwed those who had old and cherished vehicles that wouldn't run on unleaded.
It is always been the perpetual joys of motoring.

[jd_1984]

£160 better off, apparently!

[mikey4444]

Retro...I am a fairly recent convert to diesel but I wouldn't want to go back to a petrol car now.

[retrocop]

Well OK then. I bought my diesel years ago( 1970),as previously explained,and still drive a diesel although the price of diesel has increased above petrol. That is my choice and I am not moaning about it. There is always a choice. We might all have to get rid of our diesels if some ABers get their way.

[Peter Pedant]

I am surprised that no one has really mentioned the touchstone:

if you have been to eton ( your mistake I think mikey - not to have been there I mean ) you will be MUCH better off

and the rest of us will pay !

ha ha ha where's my glass of Pimms ?