Conference terri::cars_uk

If the Road Tax changes in the budget tomorrow, when do the new charges apply?

My car is due for a new disk at the end of the month. Is it worth buying a new
one today, or will the price hike be delayed?

Jc

    
    
    I would have thought that any price rise would be effected after the
    start of the next month, I bought ( well my sister bought it for me )
    my road tax for the start of April last week, I cant see 
    StorminNormanLamont coming round here for the extra 10 quid.
    

    Budget starts at 3.00pm (I think)
    
    Normally lasts about an hour and a half, so finishes about 4.30pm.
    
    Post offices close 5.00 (I think)
    
    So listen to budget. If the tax disc goes up, storm round to post
    office straight away.
    
    Steve

    I'd be surprised if road tax were abolished with immediate effect.  In
    fact I'd be surprised if it were abolished all, why should this year be
    any different to all the others when we thought it would happen?
    
    If it did, it would probabaly happen a year hence, with the balance of
    months being purchasable until then.

    I've got a tax disc 'reminder' at home for the end of this month.
    
    In it, it mentions that any price increase due to the budget will
    apply if disc is purchased after 18-3-91.
    
    I cannot see any likelihood of it being reduced.
    
    If, on the other hand, it were dropped to zero pounds, with the cost
    (and more) being put onto the price of petrol, I would expect the Govt
    to provide some way of claiming back duty paid on tax discs that will
    expire after March - otherwise, it would be 'unfair' to anyone who had
    bought 12-months road tax in February (or March).
    
    Not that they consider 'being fair'...
    
    J.R.

 They would probably just use the method that is already available for claiming
back unused time on a tax disk.

		 Alan
		~~~~~~

    
    The RAC said very strongly that the government would scrap road
    tax and replace it with 40p a gallon on petrol. Other sources said
    there was also supposed to be swingeing tax increases on company
    cars with those over 2.0 litres being very hard hit.
    
    But the motor industry lobby has been hard at work as usual in the
    Commons talking about what would happen if they weren't allowed
    to fill up the roads with lorries and cars... 
    
    And everything I've read in the last week would suggest this is going 
    to be a 'tame' budget for the motorist.

    The tax discs, if they were to have been scrapped would all have been 
    "cashed in" as someone suggested earlier in the usual manner as
    of the 1st April.
    

>    The RAC said very strongly that the government would scrap road
>    tax and replace it with 40p a gallon on petrol. Other sources said

At today's exchange rate, that's around $0.78 a gallon - and in DC you can buy
a gallon of regular unleaded for $0.99!!  And US motorists think they're hard
done to if fuel goes up 5 cents a gallon to pay for environmental damage!

Brian (Who_is_going_to_test_drive_a_Cadillac_STS_on_Friday)

	Road Tax will never be abolished. It's the basis for the police
	vehicle computer, keeps tabs on the nation as a whole, employs
	civil servants and brings in lots of money. Politicians just don't
	do away with things like this, however sensible it might appear
	to be.

	-John

    
    
    I was just working out how worse off I'd be if they scrapped the idea 
    of road tax !!
    
    Saying I drove 10,000 miles per year and I did an average of 30 miles
    per gallon. I would be about 20 pounds per year better off. I'd say
    most cars do around 30 miles per gallon. So, if they added 25 pence
    to the price of petrol, anyone doing 14,000 thousand or more miles
    per year would be worse off. Sounds good to me !!
    
    This would make some people go for more economical cars (ie: smaller,
    in some respects !!) and less petrol would be used.
    
    I'd be all FOR this, providing the goverment wouldn't go OTT with the 
    increase in petrol prices !!
    
    craig.
    
    ps...does all this make sense "no" .... I didn't think so
    
    pss...Do you think I ought to renew my tax from october 1990 or shall
    I wait and see what happens first !!
    
    
    
    

>>           <<< Note 666.28 by HAMPS::LINCOLN_J "Where sheep dare" >>>
>>                                 -< Some hope >-

>>	Road Tax will never be abolished. It's the basis for the police
>>	vehicle computer, keeps tabs on the nation as a whole, employs

    PNC is updated from vehicle REGISTRATIONS (and drivers licences). NOT
    from TAX.
    
    Richard

    Re: .28
    
    Road Tax has already been abolished.
    
    Vehicle Excise Duty has been in place for a number of years now.
    
    Could someone update the topic title?
    
    JK (-:
    
    
    

>>    Leaded up 3p gallon
>>    
>>    Unleaded up 4p gallon

      Seems the wrong way round??

    Aren't I glad I just sold my Company Car :->
    No Tax on Company Bikes either :->
    
    He he he.

>>    No Tax on Company Bikes either :->
    

	Rob,  have you got a company bike then??

	If so - how did you get it

	Rob

    
    I have a company bike too, but I don't believe Digital offer them, I
    know of people who have asked for one on the lease scheme, and been
    refused.
    
    That would be one way of Digital becoming more 'green'.
    
    In answer to where do you get one... become a contractor, you're
    company may then look favourably on your request for a bike :-) !
    
    Elaine