So how much is your car tax going up by?

Matblack · 18-03-2008, 11:27

Minnie despite being a 1600cc car is in group K and will go from £210 to £300, a increase of 70% :/

Can't say I'm impressed, I do understand the idea behind it but my suspicion is that the money raised won't be used to combat climate change or shore up our terrible public transport system but will more likely be used to build more airports and roads.

When will people understand you'll never tax people out of cars unless you give them an alternative? Start subsidising the national rail network to a point where I can make a journey for less than the price of the petrol and its quicker and I might choose that over driving but until then policies like this will lead to a change of government to a regime which has already said it won't be able to afford to reduce taxes :/

MB

18-03-2008, 11:27	#1
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	So how much is your car tax going up by? Minnie despite being a 1600cc car is in group K and will go from £210 to £300, a increase of 70% :/ Can't say I'm impressed, I do understand the idea behind it but my suspicion is that the money raised won't be used to combat climate change or shore up our terrible public transport system but will more likely be used to build more airports and roads. When will people understand you'll never tax people out of cars unless you give them an alternative? Start subsidising the national rail network to a point where I can make a journey for less than the price of the petrol and its quicker and I might choose that over driving but until then policies like this will lead to a change of government to a regime which has already said it won't be able to afford to reduce taxes :/ MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"