How the fuck does my bike cost £42.80 for 6 months yet girlie at work has just paid £20 for her Shitroen C1 tax disc and some vegetarian cars are free. My bike does maybe 2000 road miles per year, does not damage the road surface and I can not see the emissions being more than any car. Piss is boiling
Its just down the the C02 levels. My Honda Civic costs me £295 to tax and my bikes cost £78 for twelve months. Hybrid cars dont pay road tax for example. Tax per mile makes much more sence that a blanket tax
what takes the biscuit the most is that we all pay "road" tax yet they still cant fix pot holes sunk drains and every other problem out there
And the councils are paying out more in claims for damage to cars than what repairs to pot holes would actually cost.
I claimed for a pair of tyres after hitting a pot hole that appeared over night. i went back to it and got some of the water out it was nearly a foot deep. I think its a very flawed system
The cut in the money would be so great they wouldn't even consider this a viable last resort haha. Not to mention, why would a HUGE chugging Range Rover from Kensington get away with paying the same tax as a tiny fiesta? Would never work
There hasn't been a specific "Road Tax" in this country since 1937. You pay a Vehicle Excise Duty which goes into the same collective money pot as any other tax paid.
Ive always thought this would be the perfect solution too. Bigger cars use more fuel per mile so its all relative. If you do lots of miles you should pay more road tax....you're taking more from the roads after all. No-one would be able to avoid paying road tax and it would cut out a level of needless admin for the DVLA and police/traffic wardens saving even more money. Job done!
I've thought for along while now RFL should be scrapped and the duty put on fuel. A few years ago it was talked about and it'd account for about 1.5p a litre or something. The more fuel you use, the more you pay. If you do the miles, then you'd go for a more efficient car, if you choose a guzzler, then you pay more. It'd probably have more effect on CO2 emmissions than tax bands. Lexus 4x4 hybrid springs to mind....pays nothing, but runs a 4.3 V8. In theory it's green.....reality it runs on its engine most of time and does well to get 20mpg. My car does little mileage and costs £265 or so, rep mobile tdi is say £110 or less yet probably does 20k miles a year..... Just needs someone in government to have the balls to put it forward.
Problem being because the VED is just another tax and not ring-fenced for anything there's no real incentive to HM Government to change it, you already pay more tax into the coffers the more mileage you do so it doesn't actually change things as far as revenue collection goes.
if it doesn't benefit the government why would they change it? the more old people and low mileage drivers paying the same tax the better in their eyes
Somehow I doubt it.......bikes make lots of power/litre = poor fuel consumption vs current technology cars. Fuel consumption figures mirror (inversely) CO2 figures. You may be able to argue that your 40 ish mpg bike pays the same as the equivalent car......but perhaps this would leave you out of pocket
