Video:Goodbye To The Tax Disc
The regulations for vehicle excise duty are changing on 1st October 2014.
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Category: Road Tax
Government Vehicle Enquiry Is Actually Quite Useful
The Government Vehicle Enquiry is a useful tool for confirming your worst fears when you suddenly realise you may have forgotten to tax your car.
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Budget 2014 – What’ll It Cost You?
Another March, another budget, another mauling for the motorist?
Read MoreVED Bands 2013/2014
The Chancellor’s 2013 Budget gives car owners little to be happy about but on the bright side it could have been worse.
Read MoreVED Bands 2011/2012
How much will you be paying on your car tax, or Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), in 2011/2012? That depends on how much carbon dioxide your car emits and where that places it in the VED Bands for 2011. The latest rates for...
Read MorePre-Budget Report Cuts Taxes – For Everyone Except Motorists
So, the Chancellor has decided to cut VAT from 17.5% to 15%. Great, that means everything to do with motoring will be a bit cheaper … right? Wrong! The sneaky blaggard is raising fuel duty by 2 pence per litre, effective...
Read MoreGovernment Postpones Changes To Vehicle Excise Duty
The government have decided to postpone the changes to the vehicle excise duty system that were due to take effect in 2009. Alastair ‘The Badger’ Darling is expected to announce the climbdown in next week’s...
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Save Money On Road Tax Before 2009 Rates Start
Is your car’s road tax due for renewal soon? Do you want to save yourself a bit of money...
Read MoreBrown Forced To Rethink Car Tax Changes
OK, so it’s not a U-turn, but Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have been forced into a rethink on the proposed changes to the UK’s road tax system. After some heated debate in the houses of Parliament last night,...
Read MoreStick It To The Taxman Lesson 3 – Switch To Diesel
One of the easiest ways of lowering your car’s CO2 emissions is to switch to diesel fuel. Ten years ago this would have been a laughable proposition, but as the battle of petrol vs diesel has raged on the diesel engine has...
Read MoreStick It To The Taxman Lesson 2 – Tune Your Car
So we’ve looked at the benefits of buying a pre-2001 car to cut down your tax bill, but another way of reducing your road tax bill and keeping the performance is to buy a lower powered car and then tune it. The C02 rating...
Read MoreStick It To The Taxman Lesson 1 – Buy A Pre-2001 Car
Although the shakeup of the emissions based road tax doesn’t look good for performance cars, it’s worth remembering that it only affects cars registered in March 2001 onwards. So, one easy way to beat the taxman is...
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