Increase in Motor Vehicle Tax

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....les-on-many-cars.html

Another rise in taxes under the name of protecting the environment.

Should this extra revenue be spent on the roads, instead of ending up in the general tax pot?

Should the amount of tax charged depend on the amount of mileage travelled?

After all a car that is only used to go to the supermarket etc.shouldn't pay the same tax as a car that is used daily, clocking up the mileage on the motorways. .

[R1Geezer]

Yes I think it should be spent on roads, but I doubt it will be.

Yes I also think that Tax should be based on usage, they already do that through fuel tax so really they should abolish road tax completely and slap it on fuel. But that's far to sensible to become government policy.

[Gladeian]

Does anyone really believe that this is about environmental protection? This is nothing more than yet another grubby labour government wheeze to extract yet more taxation from the most easily taxed section of the community - the motorist. Like everything to do with this lousy government its based on greed

[jake-the-peg]

You know Gladelian - Gordon brown doesn't have a personal little pot of money that's buried in number 10 that he keeps topping up to spend on Scotch eggs and whiskey out of our taxes.

You may not have noticed but the country needs to raise more money right now.

Geezer does have a strong point about road tax and petrol but I think that it's useful in policing insurance and MOTs.

The Tax hikes on gas guzzlers that can't even manage 30mpg is also psychological.

Personally I think there should be a ban on selling any new car that can't achieve say 30 MPG

[Gromit]

// Should the amount of tax charged depend on the amount of mileage travelled? //

That one is covered by an increase in fuel duty which also comes in today. The more miles you travel, the more you pay.

The Tax is built on CO2 emissions, so a Corsa remains the same at NO Tax, while the highest emitting vehicles, it doubles.

http://www.theaa.com/...uide/cbg_roadtax.html

[R1Geezer]

Jake the enforcement of MOT/insurance can still be done via the number plate as it is now, no tax necessary.

[Zeuhl]

It's funny how helping the environment always seem to involve giving more money to the government.

Just like proposed solutions to 'binge drinking' or any other social ill they can pin a tax onto.

The usual excuse given for not slapping it on fuel/mileage is that it penalises people living in rural areas.

[rov1200]

An hypothecated tax is very rare today and never ends up in the pot it was used for, Thats why so many people are against Labour's death tax. It will probably be used to spend on ministers overseas trips.