Tax - Query To Dvla

[dobboy 231 2 Cars]

FYI.

 

I noticed my tax monthly direct debit was higher for my Saxo than it was for my GTI.

 

1988 1.9GTI is £20.12 per month

2002 Saxo 1.6i is £25.37 per month

 

So I phone DVLA for clarity.

 

With cars registered before March 2001 the tax is based on engine size, and anything after March 2001 it's based on emissions.

[welshpug 1,657]

its taken you 15 years to notice that?

[Anthony 1,003]

Yep, hence you end up with the situation where two identical cars are different tax costs depending on their age if they straddle the changeover point.

 

A year 2000 Saxo VTS for example would be the same tax cost as your 205 is.

 

I've got to concur with Mei though - have you been living under a rock for the last 15 years?!

[David1982 11 1 Cars]

Glad someone has cleared that up!!!

[dobboy 231 2 Cars]

Yep, hence you end up with the situation where two identical cars are different tax costs depending on their age if they straddle the changeover point.

 

A year 2000 Saxo VTS for example would be the same tax cost as your 205 is.

 

I've got to concur with Mei though - have you been living under a rock for the last 15 years?!

Ha!

 

Mei, I've only had the Saxo taxed for a few months; no reason why I would/should know what significance 2001 is for taxing.

[rikky 37]

Ahh just cancel the direct debit.. you don't need tax

[aldworth33 45 1 Cars]

My 1.6 focus estate tax is due it's slower than asthmatic pensioner but still same price as my 205 but I knew that when I bought it

[Goliath 94]

To add to the confusion, as of next year all new cars will be taxed based on their purchase price and no longer based on emissions!

[steve@cornwall 100]

I wonder.......if I put a late 80s non cat engine in a 2002 saxo,thus being mot'd at non cat emmissions, what would or should happen to it's tax bracket ? .

[pugdamo 111 2 Cars]

Iv got a 450 quad and that's an 07 plate, the tax on that is £79 for 6 months because they class it as a car,but because it's emissions except it falls into cars before 2001 with the smaller engine size.

[Anthony 1,003]

I wonder.......if I put a late 80s non cat engine in a 2002 saxo,thus being mot'd at non cat emmissions, what would or should happen to it's tax bracket ? .

As far as I'm aware, on post-2001 stuff the tax bracket doesn't change when you swap the engine - or at least, that's the situation with someone I knew who had declared an engine swap with DVLA and had the V5 updated.

 

Logically, that's the only way that it can work short of reverting to the pre-2001 capacity based system, as there's no feasible way of re-testing the CO2 emissions in the same way as the tests were done initially.

[Anthony 1,003]

Iv got a 450 quad and that's an 07 plate, the tax on that is £79 for 6 months because they class it as a car,but because it's emissions except it falls into cars before 2001 with the smaller engine size.

That's how stuff that hasn't had an EU emissions test is taxed, so grey (non-EU) imports and that sort of thing.

[Bogsye 22]

I recall my S2000 turned out to be registered 3 weeks into the £450 band. I'd had it about a year when the VED started to ramp up.

R32 was simillar, but the Cerbera is a 97 so I get that bargainous feeling of melting the environment for a mere £270 odd.

[welshpug 1,657]

grey import stuff like mustangs and the like are great, as long as there was never an uk model the same.

 

i recall Steve Cox's Saleen mustang was on a standard pre 2001 rate, a 2004 4.6 supercharged v8

[Biggles 65]

My old rally car used to make me smile when taxing it - 1986 & 1360cc so in the cheap band - it did about 10 mpg on the stage !

[cheesegrater 43 1 Cars]

grey import stuff like mustangs and the like are great, as long as there was never an uk model the same.

 

i recall Steve Cox's Saleen mustang was on a standard pre 2001 rate, a 2004 4.6 supercharged v8

I like the fact my 4.7 litre v8 mustang has free tax haha.