Car Tax - Budget

[davebro]

Well that was a surprise I hadn't noticed in the budget.

My car tax has gone up from £28 pm to £34 pm.

Damn savages....

[douglas9401]

Covid, Ukraine, Brexit, etc.

[barry1010]

That seems steep, it should have increased by the rate of inflation, 10.1%

[ToraToraTora]

Still too cheap.

[davebro]

28.87 to 31.93 to be exact

[youngmafbog]

Correct TTT. Need to get the masses of the roads using climate change or whatever as the excuse so the rest of us can drive about sensibly.

Now just need planes to be priced out too.

[douglas9401]

A big Tuesday welcome to the Delusional Twins.

[Old_Geezer]

No excuse for road fund licence at all. We all pay other taxes, roads should be an equal responsibility for all citizens as we all need them. High time they corrected this abuse of vehicle owners and shared fixed national costs more equally.

[youngmafbog]

Easy OG, scum scoops for the hoi polloi, roads for those who can afford to pay for it.

Less Co2 (pleases the activists), less pollution (good for all) and much easier for the well off to move around.

[Hopkirk]

Mine has gone from nil to nil.

[youngmafbog]

They will come for you soon. Just ask DERV drivers. Encouraged to buy then when enough of them have - Wham!!

[barry1010]

OG, it hasn't been the Road Fund Licence since 1936, it is called Vehicle Excise Duty and goes it to the general pot. So roads are funded by everybody, not just motorists.

[ToraToraTora]

TBH I think with the advent of lecky jam jars they'll move to some sort of road pricing scheme.

[ToraToraTora]

Not true barry, it does go in the general pot but the amount that comes from motorists in various ways is much more than is spent on roads etc.

[bednobs]

is it? i read the smart motorways thing was costin billions

[youngmafbog]

The Government raises around 40bn (5% of Government revenue so quite high). Of this around 7Bn is VED.

The amount spent on roads was just under 13Bn in 21/22.

The General public are not paying a sausage.

[youngmafbog]

//i read the smart motorways thing was costin billions//

Remember such figures are spread over a number of years.

[bednobs]

govt raises £40bn how YMB - from motorists? Is that fuel duty and such. I'm just wondering where the other £27bn comes from

[youngmafbog]

Fuel Duty and VAT.

Many years ago I worked for BP on the Exchanges system. The fuel companies each have a refinery/depot in a part of the UK and then they all fill up from each others. It's added up and then netted. But the company actually moving the fuel has to pay the excise duty for all the companies moving fuel form the depot. It was colossal then and paid monthly it must be huge now.