The UK Budget 2015
Well that did us little favour! Basically the government has said all this eco stuff is fine but they are losing too much tax so lets forget it! - it seems the environment only matters to them when its a way of making money of us.
Currently PHEV's are fully exempt. New PHEV's from 2017 will only pay £10 in road tax for the 1st year, but it will be £140 a year after that. The same as something putting out 255g/km! (unless it costs over £40,000 then it gets an extra surcharge aded. What's has the cost of the vehicle got to do with it?)
The only redeeming thing is the 255g vehicle will get hammered for £1700 in the first year although that's hardly likely to bother someone who can afford an £85,000 car in the first place as many options would dwarf that.
Its sad that the manufacturers have played their part and done a lot of good work cleaning up cars as asked and now the goal posts move again. In our PHEV's we will pay £110 less than say a BMW 3 series diesel at 100g first year but the same then on year after year.
How much is a Hummer?
Well that did us little favour! Basically the government has said all this eco stuff is fine but they are losing too much tax so lets forget it! - it seems the environment only matters to them when its a way of making money of us.
Currently PHEV's are fully exempt. New PHEV's from 2017 will only pay £10 in road tax for the 1st year, but it will be £140 a year after that. The same as something putting out 255g/km! (unless it costs over £40,000 then it gets an extra surcharge aded. What's has the cost of the vehicle got to do with it?)
The only redeeming thing is the 255g vehicle will get hammered for £1700 in the first year although that's hardly likely to bother someone who can afford an £85,000 car in the first place as many options would dwarf that.
Its sad that the manufacturers have played their part and done a lot of good work cleaning up cars as asked and now the goal posts move again. In our PHEV's we will pay £110 less than say a BMW 3 series diesel at 100g first year but the same then on year after year.
How much is a Hummer?