A couple of the girls at work last night told me that they were wanting to put road tax up on 4x4 vehicles to £2,000 a year in the next budget.

Personally I think it's a load of piffle..... I know they've said it was going up to £400 on post 2001 vehicles at some point, but there is no way on earth, in my opinion, that they could possibly charge that amount of money to run a vehicle on the road.

I said that if they had heard about a £2,000 tax, then it may be slammed on a new vehicle at purchase, but there was no way it could be a yearly tax.

They were both adamant that they'd heard about this tax in the media.

They are talking shit aren't they?!!!

 

Thats what the Lib Dems proposed about 2yrs ago, I've not heard anything from the current clowns in charge though

Link to old Lib Dem announcement in 2006

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ax-478802.html

 

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle3512212.ece

The £2000 is on the price of buying new gas guzzlers

 

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The £2000 is on the price of buying new gas guzzlers[/QUOTE]

Thanks for that, I aint as daft as I appear to be then.... will let em know tonight...

 

The Italians charge huge amounts of road tax on high-end cars, but I don't know if they base it on price, CO2, mpg or whatever.