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Added: 21 August 2008 12:46
Another money making sceme by this goverment (must be related to the romans!), the good thing is they will be out soon.

main point of fact :-

if car tax is to increase it should be on new cars manufactured and sold. Not crucify those already made and on the road.

This effects thousands of low income people already struggling to not be in the 'poor house' or on the street with nothing.

Maybe that's the governments aim?
paul riddles, ammanford wales

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Added: 21 August 2008 12:12
Why is the road tax on mileage ,i use pulic transport , my car is a mg zt 4.6 only drive 4000 miles a year next year paying over £430 a year tax over £100 for each 1000 miles , paying tax for sitting on the drive, a frend of mine pays £120 AND DRIVES 20,000 A YEAR, I AM THINKING STOP USEING PUBLIC TRANSPORT , It cost me £500 a year for a year train / bus pass £430 car tax= £930 a year. This is the end of voting for LABOUR , FED UP WORKER, Greg
Greg, Stockport

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Added: 18 August 2008 13:48
I really do believe that this whole situation is a joke, the way these new road tax's are calculated is rediculous. I just cannot understand the way they have gone around this.
Gary Russell, Darlington

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Added: 15 August 2008 14:43
What a load of rubbish! I think the only people who will benefit will be those driving brand new cars about the size of a tea pot! My 2001 Ford Fiesta 1.8TDi does about 48MPG, even after 88k miles, and produces 136g/km CO2. That means instead of £120 p/a road tax, I pay £110 p/a. Whoopdy doo! Another car in my household, an 07 1.4 TDCi Fiesta - from £35 to £30. A Ford Focus 2.0 TDCi - from £120 to £120... Oh, wait a sec! So a small minority who can afford a £12k car, save £15 to £35 a year!
Michael Bryant, Stowmarket

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Added: 12 August 2008 08:25
FAO Peter Harrison. You're saying you'd buy a new car (Ibiza Ecomotive-£10995;Polo Bluemotion-£12150) to save £35 a year? Really? You may argue the green card but the Co2/Km difference between those new cars and the Fiesta would be outweighed by relative CO2 produced to make the new car. Also, do you really think if everyone drove <100Co2/Km cars, the tax goalposts wouldn't then be moved? I do apologise for the personal attack on you but your fantasy world comments warranted a real world reply.
Ian, Leicester

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Added: 11 August 2008 16:09
Thats all very well Peter as you already have a low polluting car! My car will soar from 210 - 415 because of 1 gram of c02 (produces 226 g/km &I do 4000 miles P/A!) Who is going to want to buy my car now!? Plus it wont be scrapped as only 5 year old so will still be polluting but by smeone else! If it applied to new cars only I would totally understand but it is going to leave people like me in a lose lose situation, loose less money keeping it so my choice -keep the car I love until it dead
Daniel Baribeault, Cwmbran

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Added: 09 August 2008 00:47
I think it is right to tax higher co2 cars. I drive a ford fiesta tdci and only pay £35 a year tax. If I had the money I would buy a vw polo bluemotion or seat ibiza ecomotive as these cars pay no road tax. For large familys you can get estate cars with low tax like my megane 1.9 dci which is £120 a year tax now and in 2010. Everyone should drive a car with less than 100g co2 then everyone would pay no road tax and be green as well.
Peter Harrison, Southampton

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Added: 09 August 2008 00:47
I think it is right to tax higher co2 cars. I drive a ford fiesta tdci and only pay £35 a year tax. If I had the money I would buy a vw polo bluemotion or seat ibiza ecomotive as these cars pay no road tax. For large familys you can get estate cars with low tax like my megane 1.9 dci which is £120 a year tax now and in 2010. Everyone should drive a car with less than 100g co2 then everyone would pay no road tax and be green as well.
Peter Harrison, Southampton

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Added: 05 August 2008 14:13
This is just another tax on the poorer sections of the population, those who cannot aford to change their existing vehicles without great expense and hardship. The government is still not punishing those who pollute the most. The motorist once again is an easy target as the public transport system is an absolute disgrace and the government know this, therfore people have to use their vehicle to travel to work etc. Another example of rip-off Britain!!!!!!
Ian Braund, Maesteg,S. Wales

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Added: 04 August 2008 12:09
I am being stung also. I live on the moors in Cornwall so cannot use public transport as there is none. Many people are saying a change of government will reduce our tax burdon- utter rubbish; the last lot did the very same thing, some people have short memories. Waiting for a change of government is typicaly British, we just sit back and hope someone else will sort it. We aught to take notice of how the french do things and get off our derriers and protest as a nation, like the truckers did. D
darrell, stroud

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Added: 03 August 2008 15:22
If you are adversly effected by this stealth tax, do'nt forget to rebate your existing car tax 1 month before the changes come into force and buy a years car tax at the old rate. Do the same in the following year. If everyone did this, the exchequer would'nt get a penny more in tax from existing motorists in the first year of the change and only the first year's increase in the second. The election will then be due and we'll all have the opportunity to boot this bunch of thieving chav's out.
Will D, Chelmsford

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Added: 28 July 2008 16:56
Just to add to all the comments Ive read.Get this goverment out, they couldnt organise a drinking session without taxing it! I own 2 vehicles one small eco friendly car 1 larger diesel which actually is almost as good for mpg.
Taxation should be on the amount of fuel we use, and thats already enough.If you own a vehicle that uses a lot of fuel you should be charged for it. Repair the roads we drive on with the collected taxes then we wont need 4x4s. Nice big trailer and small cars on my list...
phil, cheshire

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Added: 24 July 2008 20:26
I have a 2005 s type jaguar with a co of 229 thats 4 over the limit that makes the tax cost over £200 more I do less than 3000 mile a year and get a large insurance discount my plan now is to get a really high emitting car that is good on fuel like my jaguar and get my moneys worth . This goverment would be out of a job by now if it was france they have done this one really bad I will never vote for this shower again .
mike, stoke

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Added: 18 July 2008 21:42
I recently brought a newer car than what I had an 04 instead of an 01 focus 16auto hatch emissions 192 the same as the 01 if I had got a manual it would be less. Their should be no higher tax no more fuel tax the government already sting us car users to much as it is I did a carbon footprint for the amount I use the car it was 0 Their is too many really old cars petrol and diesel which chuck out out muck. they pollute more than newer cars but we have to pay more tax.
Michael Housley, Banbury

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Added: 16 July 2008 18:40
I drive a volvo V70, 2003, so I will be hit quite hard by this tax increase, my main gripe, is that i only do 6500 miles per year, so relatively,this is a big hike in the tax, a much fairer system would be to abolish road fund tax altogether,and add it to the fuel cost, that way big pollutors and people who do a lot of miles, will quite rightly pay the most,and people who use their cars very little, will not pay so much
Fred Shields, Thetford

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Added: 16 July 2008 10:16
I have a 51 reg Toyota Avensis 2.0lCDX. Part of my reason for choosing it was that it had the best CO2 figures in its class. Now I will be paying £260 pa tax -the same as the others due to the banding and £75 pa more than if it were 6 months older - for the same car. Where's the sense in that?
Isla Biggs, Durham

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Added: 15 July 2008 23:05
This policy was not designed to cut pollution. If it was, the government would not increase the tax on cars ALREADY ON THE ROAD. It's a simple money making exercise. Even if this could be regarded as a green tax, the fact remains that cars are not the largest contribution to CO2 in this country and yet that is all we ever hear about. Labour is taking the juice and we are letting it happen. I own a Mondeo-£400 tax in 2010. I feel a revolt coming on! Fax/bombard your MP and PM!!
Tom, Lowestoft

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Added: 15 July 2008 15:47
its a joke i get onto my local traffic deptment to get holes fixed on my road and they say because its a b road they wont do it what for gods sake are we paying for
dave, barnsley

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Added: 15 July 2008 13:12
Surely it would be easier to do away with all road tax and everyone who has a car, van, truck motorbike etc whatever the size have to fill up with petrol and diesel. Therefore, no-one could avoid paying to use their vehicles on the road, thus people who do not tax their cars couldn't get away with it. It would also mean that people with small cars pay less than those with large cars etc.
Pauline Green, Wakefield

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Added: 14 July 2008 23:41
This country is a joke, does anyone have any idea the carbon footprint of the UK compared to the rest of the world? We are all made to feel guilty and the only way we can repent is to pay more taxes as that will please Mother Mature. Well some one needs to pay for the sky telly beamed to the council estates. What right do I have keep any of my money in my pocket to spend on my family, I have only worked all my life! I went to the USA recently and hired a normal car that did 15mpg, Obscene!!
Phil Thomas, Surrey

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Added: 14 July 2008 15:01
i think it is disgusting the amount that people pay to tax there vehicles, i live in the cuntry we have no bus service and get floods and snow, i have a 4X4 and have worked hard to buy and maintain it and as a result of the new tax increase I will have to sell it, if that is not bad enough there are 6 members in my family so if we need to go anywhere as a family we will have to take two trips or take two cars, i dont think thery have thought about this sensibly, they see it as a quick cash fix
Chris Boyd , Arlecdon

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Added: 14 July 2008 15:00
i think it is disgusting the amount that people pay to tax there vehicles, i live in the cuntry we have no bus service and get floods and snow, i have a 4X4 and have worked hard to buy and maintain it and as a result of the new tax increase I will have to sell it, if that is not bad enough there are 6 members in my family so if we need to go anywhere as a family we will have to take two trips or take two cars, i dont think thery have thought about this sensibly, they see it as a quick cash fix
Chris Boyd , Arlecdon

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Added: 14 July 2008 14:59
i think it is disgusting the amount that people pay to tax there vehicles, i live in the cuntry we have no bus service and get floods and snow, i have a 4X4 and have worked hard to buy and maintain it and as a result of the new tax increase I will have to sell it, if that is not bad enough there are 6 members in my family so if we need to go anywhere as a family we will have to take two trips or take two cars, i dont think thery have thought about this sensibly, they see it as a quick cash fix
Chris Boyd , Arlecdon

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Added: 14 July 2008 01:07
Sorry! but I cannot accept that this so called Labour government is in the least bit interested in protecting the environment. The 'Green Band-Wagon' is just a further excuse to extract even more money from an already exploited motoring public which they quite rightly regard as an easy target. We have endured a tax on company vehicles, an increase in diesel fuel duty when a greater % of us started to opt for diesel, have the highest fuel duty in Europe & we just sit back and accept it all. Why??
M Nicholl, Derry

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Added: 13 July 2008 21:38
Seems like the Goverment are intent
on destroying this country furthor.

Lets face it, unless your can afford to go buy a brand spanking new car from one off their list (hmmm wonder how that list will be compiled)
You are going to get completely shafted.
Good mind to just sell my car, give up my job and just scrounge off the state,
as I wont be able to get to work.
We already pay double tax on fuel bills.


Leigh, Birmigham

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Added: 13 July 2008 19:40
Yet again this goverment is attacking the family man trying to make ends meet.We love are meriva as a family using it to go on holidays and traveling to work.We could not all fit in a 1.1 tiny car ,and would have to take holidays abroad on an airoplane which would increase are carbon footprint.We always thing of others ways before we take the car,so taxing me of the road does not help it just makes us poorer as a family.OUTRAGOUS,
robert walker, newton aycliffe

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Added: 13 July 2008 12:34
I firmly believe that the reader who quoted,Labour are a joke' has his or her priorities 100% correct, and to add a little more, if we think about it, this Government is the next best thing to Communism, who else in the World treads on all its Citizens and keeps it's top Officials in clover.
Greg Hicken, Birmingham. West Midlands.

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Added: 12 July 2008 23:03
This is all madness!!! takes no account of how much the car is used,and that, after all is the prime determining factor in annual emissions!

why doesn't the idiot just put the tax on petrol - the more you burn the more CO2 you emit, the less you drive the less you pay.

that way you are encouraged not only to choose a green car, but to use a bike or public transport whenever practical.

People choose a car once every few years, but choose whether to drive it every day!
Brian Davison, London

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Added: 12 July 2008 22:13
Well, as I live in the middle of nowhere, with practically no public transport, a car is not a luxury - wonderful.

The thing that amazes me is the amount of people on here that are moaning that must have voted Labour in in the first place! Can they not remember when Labour were in last time? They completely ruined the economy, with the country owing billions. Labour have always been a total joke.

Still, why should I complain? I drive a year 2000 diesel - it's value has probably doubled!
Labour Reminder, In the sticks

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Added: 12 July 2008 18:32
yea i am already paying £400 a year on my
03 honda. am on the cycle to work sceme an also pay £60 a year for my motor bike. so it sits in the drive a lot. so i do not think the green wears to well when i cycle to work and spend week ends cycling.
michael courage, bournemouth

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Added: 12 July 2008 17:13
I have recently bought a volvo v40 that is very good on petrol and very clean but now find that it will go up well over £100 in tax next year thanks to this thieving government.
This new tax will cost a lot of people their jobs after pricing them off the road.
kenherts, hertford

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Added: 12 July 2008 16:22
Why is thre no consideration for the number of miles a car drives?!?! The tax should be entirely on fuel, the more you use the more you pay. Weekend drivers whi rack up a few hundred miles a year, not matter what they drive, do not polute as much as a small diesel which does 20k a year! What happened to common sense?!
Zippy, Newport

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Added: 12 July 2008 10:09
I own a 2002 BMW X5 3.0D which has a Co2 figure of 259 g/km, I also run a company car which is a VW Golf 1.9 tdi (Very fuel efficient) this has a Co2 figure of 132 g/km which is obviosly better. Where is the problem you say. I drive 10,000 kilometres per annum in the X5 and 50,000 kilometres in the golf which is where the injustice of the new road tax shows. My X5 emits 2.59 tonnes of CO2 per year whereas the golf emits 6.6 tonnes of CO2 per year. Which is the bigger polluter now!!!???
James, Preston

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Added: 12 July 2008 09:05
As expected another piece of legislation with no thought to the practical implications on the motorists and their families. Not all motorists drive so called 'gas-guzzlers' as a luxury. I drive a '99' Ford galaxy because there are 7 people in my family, hence I bought the car a real 'luxury' car. Do I sell this car and drive 2 normal cars in order to protect the environment, so a family day out would involve double petrol/ double road tax/co2, economical? enviromental? or use public transport?
Umar, Falkirk

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Added: 12 July 2008 07:19
why is everybody moaning,you will all pay because thats what we do best.we as a nation love to moan but nobody does anything about it, we dont or wont demonstrate and show the goverment our discust or how we feel,were just like lambs to the slaughter.so put up or shutup.....jj london
john, london

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Added: 11 July 2008 21:48
like i can see the interest to be greener but come on this is so unpractical, its all well and good starting this new tax scheme but people are just simply going to start leaving the country and going else where, the government is sinking us lower and lower, fuel prices are through the roof, i used to stick £40 of diesel and that would fill her up now its a nearer to £70, what next eh? and the funny thing is its ROAD TAX i never see all this money revamping roads.
Joey, Hornchurch

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Added: 11 July 2008 20:34
This "TAX HIKE", is nothing to do with the Enviroment, just another excuse to "rip" the Motorist off, due to incompetetant " Government " one thing New Labour can score 10 out 10, How to Destroy our Economy, the Chinese are loving it! The sooner this Garbage is out of Power the better.
trevor, barker

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Added: 11 July 2008 17:06
Regardless when your road-tax runs out, would it be an idea to "cash-in" your disc in March 2009, you would get a refund of all complete remaining months. THEN buy a new one for 12 months. I know you will loose out on 1 month (March), but look at the saving you will make over the next full year.
THATS what I am doing, and IT IS LEGAL !!!
George Paterson, Stonehaven

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Added: 11 July 2008 17:06
Regardless when your road-tax runs out, would it be an idea to "cash-in" your disc in March 2009, you would get a refund of all complete remaining months. THEN buy a new one for 12 months. I know you will loose out on 1 month (March), but look at the saving you will make over the next full year.
THATS what I am doing, and IT IS LEGAL !!!
George Paterson, Stonehaven

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Added: 11 July 2008 17:06
Regardless when your road-tax runs out, would it be an idea to "cash-in" your disc in March 2009, you would get a refund of all complete remaining months. THEN buy a new one for 12 months. I know you will loose out on 1 month (March), but look at the saving you will make over the next full year.
THATS what I am doing, and IT IS LEGAL !!!
George Paterson, Stonehaven

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Added: 11 July 2008 00:57
Fuel/crude oil increases almost daily that compound the costs of basic needs such as food and clothing. Gas is linked to price of crude oil so therefore more expensive again. Basically everything has shot up in price over last 12 months to the point where many people are suffering. I dont see any wage increases or increases in benefits in line with the costs of living, only the government with taxes and VAT are doing well out of this.
This prompts a question, where's all this extra revenue gone
mr gregory, manchester

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Added: 10 July 2008 23:53
Ithink this nothing to do with being green as all cars from 2001 and possibly before have better engines with less co2 and they have cats in the exhaust system. So would be lower tax up to now .. This government are using this as another robbing tax blow to each and every driver in this country..Its all crooked..No we shouldnt pay any more tax on cars / fuel either.Most motorcycles give out less co2 than the minimum stated to tax, yet they are taxed.Thats wrong too ,this is just legal robbery.
pete, Bideford

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Added: 10 July 2008 22:34
Its been a known fact, the labour party
have never been good for the economy of this country. So please dont blame them for what is happening now. Blame the idiots who voted them in.
James Addis, Kings Lynn

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Added: 10 July 2008 18:01
When will goverments ever learn?
They get elected then slowly over time forget who put them there. I would like to know how 5 years ago when I made the choice to once again buy a diesel car (because of the fuel efficency) that my choice would end up with me having to pay a massive car tax hike. This shows yet again how out of touch parlement is!
Mr J Fisk, Beccles

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Added: 10 July 2008 17:33
We should campaign for the abolition of road tax. As a flat tax it takes no account of my ability to pay and punishes rich and poor alike. Most people who pay tax own a car. Let's all pay more income tax and see an end to this pernicious tax.
adrian strain, leeds

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Added: 10 July 2008 17:16
We purchased a Seat Leon 2.0 diesel car last summer because it was a "cheap" family car to run - only tax band D and a super efficient diesel engine. However since then the cost of diesel has risen so that we now pay on average an extra 14p per litre because it is diesel not petrol and the new car tax band will be H - (this appears to be incorrect as my log book states 160 g/km but this website categorises it as 161 g/km hence pushing it up another bracket. Another example of rip off Britain !
Candis, Nuneaton

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Added: 10 July 2008 15:29
We were caravanning on a farm site a few weeks ago so we have a 'dreaded 4 x 4' to pull our caravan.We have pulled several non 4 x 4 owners on and off the field ( wouldn't dream of charging them) and 3 older 4 x 4 vehicles arrived, ours was the cheapest, greenest, most economical and we will have to pay £400 this year as it just creeps into that band, the other owners £185. Scrap the Tax like Jersey and pay through the fuel, it will get the tax dodgers who we are all subsidising.
Lynda, Staffordshire

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Added: 10 July 2008 12:37
This still seems to miss the fact that we all clock up different mileages annually. I for once seem to have been helped by these changes, although for years in the past paid proportionally too much, as I ran several vehicles despite only covering 5-6000 miles per year in total.
Martyn Thomas, Gloucester

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Added: 10 July 2008 10:18
I think its outragous that our government can back track on what they said last year, that these new road tax figures would only affect cars registered after 2006, this means that many people like my self will be penalised for owning a car pre-2006 which we thought would not be affected, how can this government get away with doing this ???
Rob, Farham

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Added: 10 July 2008 09:58
It's all well and good us complaining about the highway robbery, we all know it has nothing to do with green issues and all about money "Oh, you have a big car, then you can afford this and if you don't pay, we'll take it off you and crush it" It is basically demanding money with menaces, a legal MAFIA. Are we as a people going to take this forever? I think it is about time someone organised some sort of poll tax riot to make brown realise WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!
james addis, peckham

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Added: 10 July 2008 09:32
I have a large car for a caravan, 3000 ltr it does 30mpg @ 70mph 2000revs.
Douglas Fletcher, Newcastle under Lyme

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Added: 09 July 2008 13:49
Raising road tax has nothing to do with the environment, it's just another method to extract money from the British public.

There is already a tax which is fair to those with gas guzzling cars, it's the high tax ALREADY on petrol! If you have a thirsty car you pay more tax as you use more petrol.
Paul Ridge, Stockton-on-Tees

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Added: 07 July 2008 22:31
We live in Wolverhampton and travel to Surrey every 2-3 months and drive a 1.8td Mondeo which we found to be more fuel efficient then a 1.4 diesel Metro, which is half the size and half the tax. If this "CO2" tax is based on emissions, shouldn't all cars be subject to the same test regarless of age?. I would like to see the government pay their own road tax, rather than it being sunsidised by the tax payers.
Kevin , Wolverhampton

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Added: 07 July 2008 20:49
I drive a 2001 Renault Kangoo 1.4 RXE
I wish I could afford a new low CO2 car but I can't. Within 2 years my road tax will have increased by nearly £100. Oh yes, I got hit by the 10p tax as well. The government need to ditch their big salaries, free second home in London, the John Lewis list and join us who live in the real world!!! I bet Lloyd George is proud of the current labour party.
Archie Maclachlan, Desborough

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Added: 07 July 2008 19:26
i bought my car on the basis of paying £210 because its before 2006.we are a low income family and i have saved for a good quality car for ages.as we cant afford to pay a car loan.i drive a 51 rover 75 2.0L and now i will have to pay £415.i only do 5000 to 6000 a year .so a car with less co2 can do 20.000 and pollute 3 times as much.all brown has done is to make older less economical cars stay on the road.plus if i try to sell my car now who is going to want it.
GET THIS NUTTER OUT OF NUMBER 10
martin bradbury, eastwood

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Added: 07 July 2008 12:59
This is just another way to tax the people who can ill afford it on top of rising fuel,food & mortage prices. When will the goverment start to treat us as adults, rather than children of a nanny state. Why don`t British drivers take a leaf from our French neighbours. Instead of driving slowly around the Palace of Westminster, lay seige to it until the goverment backs down? BORN FREE & TAXED TO DEATH.
It doesnt matter who you vote for the "Goverment" always gets back into power
Dean Williams, Manchester

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Added: 06 July 2008 18:42
The new road tax scheme if confirmed by the chancellor (Oct 08) will be political suicide. It will make the 10p tax change look like small change. The free road duty rate for under 100g/Km is a silly concession. The Co2 banding is not based on science or anything else bordering on the responsible, it is a revenue raising scheme to help bail out a bankrupt administration. Cancell the Road tax duty and ditch the bureaucracy that goes with it and adjust the tax on fuel. The Co2 listings are a con.
Bill Heap, Belper Derbyshire

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Added: 06 July 2008 08:37
Earning well over average plus expenses and allowances they are so out of touch its little wonder that the Government keeps hitting the poorest. I keep my pollution down by keeping my mileage down and using as little fuel as possible.
Green tax needs to be on fuel. Maybe they think we will all go out and buy new cars when in reality we wont be able to sell the old one. Or are they trying to clear the poorer motorist off the streets for the ministerial motorcades.
Mad Jack
Jack Thwaites, Peterborough

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Added: 06 July 2008 01:33
I can't believe it once again another nasty surprise this government needs to get out of power fast! They’ve done nothing good for this country since 1997 all they've done is target areas where they know they can con money out of us but where is all this money going?
All in another black hole more like their pockets we can't afford this no more I say if the conservatives come into power and don't make things any better within the next few years I'm going to leave this country for good.
GSB, Middlesex

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Added: 06 July 2008 01:33
I can't believe it once again another nasty surprise this government needs to get out of power fast! They’ve done nothing good for this country since 1997 all they've done is target areas where they know they can con money out of us but where is all this money going?
All in another black hole more like their pockets we can't afford this no more I say if the conservatives come into power and don't make things any better within the next few years I'm going to leave this country for good.
GSB, Middlesex

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Added: 05 July 2008 21:18
All the car tax should be scrapped that way no collecting fees we pay enough on tax on petrol now and the more we use the more we pay so no one pay the car tax and stand up for ourselves the french would not put up with this
so no one tax there cars . just look at all this tax we all pay vat,etc ,etc so dont pay it simple .
mark, glos

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Added: 04 July 2008 14:23
I drive a 1.8 Ford Mondeo, Registered in 1998, does Brown think our heads a buttoned up the back.
Everytime my car goes for an M.O.T it has to pass an emissions test, and although my car is now 10 years old it passes this test with flying colours not even a tiny adjustment is needed, so as long as the emissions are under the guide lines ( which they always are ) brown can't come up with the older car syndrome, him and his like are just trying to rob us left / right and centre. vote them out.
Steve Oswald, Penicuik

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Added: 03 July 2008 21:12
I have a 31 year old car used solely for classic car shows (Annual mileage less than 500 miles), these are mostly charity events (Lions etc). I will be paying over £200 in road tax soon, whereas a friend using an identical car but pre 1973 is tax exempt (listed as a historic vehicle). How can this be fair!
Barry Clack, Ross

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Added: 02 July 2008 22:10
the new roas tax rules do not go far enough, the gas guzzlers should be taxed off the road quickly, nobody has the right to use up fuel at the rate these monsters do, they have contributed to the high price we all now have to pay
alan loughlin, warrington

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Added: 02 July 2008 16:57
What is odd is that the government would be skint if it drove everyone off the road. It's got no money and makes no money it only spends it (BADLY) Where and what ridiculous excuse would they come up with next to invent a new tax if we all went back to the stone age? Income tax would probably be 95%!!!!!! and John Prescot would still be able to have 2 Jags because he can claim travel from expenses. What hypocracy!
Mike , Exeter

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Added: 02 July 2008 11:10
As quoted : If this tax increase was about emissions then its the older cars that should be paying more as they emit more fumes/emissions as newer cars are more eco-friendly.

I disagree with the above statement, I have been running my car for 10 years now and could of renewed it several times in that period, I chose to keep my car to be kind to the environoment as there is too much waste in current day. Do you know how much fumes and emmissions are produced in actually creating a brand new ca
Steve, Leeds

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Added: 30 June 2008 23:59
If this tax increase was about emissions then its the older cars that should be paying more as they emit more fumes/emissions as newer cars are more eco-friendly why why are they being stung for this excuse of a rise in tax !!?? Considering the Government is supposed to be looking after families, children etc (with child poverty so high) why are they looking at further taxing the children's car as everyone with a family knows that with 2 parents and 3 children you need a car to have space
Katie B, Poole

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Added: 30 June 2008 18:41
Brown and Darling should resign, the increase in road tax has nothing to do with emissions, if it did identicle cars would pay the same road tax regardless of when they were registered.

As for the cyclist from Glasgow, you should get a life !!!
Baz, Glenrothes

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Added: 29 June 2008 21:10
Hi, I have a 306 hdi and as it was before the new road tax it costs 180 pounds which is set to increase. I feel this is stupid as if it was in the new tax band it would be less than 120pounds. I think they should allow older cars also to fit into the new bands if it has an emission test done, and it conforms. The government need to get their act together and sort out more important issues with this economy and stop wasting money on the future olympics etc.
Luke, Kent

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Added: 28 June 2008 09:42
I heard on the news last night that these changes could be made retrospective, so that we'd pay extra for what we have driven in the last 6 years...how can that be right? or have i misunderstood? the item was on sky news with eve pollard and some other bloke discussing it.
karen, lancashire

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Added: 25 June 2008 16:18
It's shocking that these taxes are being imposed on vehicles built before the new car tax rates. All I can say to everyone is buy a car with a big engine registered before 2001. Preferably just under 3.0 litres to avoid any of Ken Livingstone's sky rocket charges. Nothing more satisfying than feeling like you are cheating the system. VW Corrado 2.9 VR6 anyone?
Alec Pryde, Hampshire

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Added: 24 June 2008 14:23
I agree that car owners should not be penalised for owning a car that they purchased prior to the announced increases in tax~surely when purchasing a car,the whole facts should be available ieif I had known when I bought my car that the car tax would (in several years time!)increase so much, I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT THAT CAR!! So,is surely unfair to be penalised for making a decision without the full facts! Not only that,it is now not worth anything as no one wants to buy as the tax is too high!!
Karen, Biggin Hill

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Added: 21 June 2008 00:24
Retrospective taxing of cars, how can the government argue this to be a green tax, the higher CO2 output cars are already sold, so higher tax will not reduce the number of them, only the resale value, they know car drivers are easy targets as we are generally not members of any organisation. We voted these simple people in, and it about time we show the government our feeling about being robbed, any ideals?
Dave, Southampton

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Added: 20 June 2008 21:59
Its time that the people of Britain started working together and stand up to the government.Tax is increasing on everything and if something isnt done about it soon people wont b able to work or eat and wont have anywhere to live.. COME ON PEOPLE WE ALL NEED TO MAKE A STAND!!!
Steve, Kincardine