Road Tax Prices
 

This is a little bit of a bugbear for me since mine pretty much £500 a year.
With the tax changing this month and the introduction of monthly payments I thought I would take a look and work it out.

Used this web site.
http://carfueldata.dft.gov.uk/

12 months tax:
£485

6 months tax:
£266.75
Unless I do it by DD, which means its £254.63.

Monthly via DD:
£42.44

2 6 monthly tickets is £533.50.
If I bought two 6 monthly tickets it would cost me an extra £48.50.

12 monthly tickets via DD is £509.28
6 monthly via DD is £509.28
If I did it via DD it would cost me and extra £24.28

Bit of random tax information for a 3.0 TDI on a 06 plate.

You can get the monthly payment figures from the DVLA direct, put the reg number in the site below, then scroll down.

https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/

You cannot buy a 6 month tax and pay by DD, the saving is because your actually paying for 12 months instead of 2x 6 months.

I came close to replacing my D2 S8 this year with a newer D3.

The increase in road tax was one of the reasons I decided not to. I only pay £285 per year for the D2.

Another reason was simply that I couldn't bring myself to part with it. It's been such a good car that I decided to spend some money sprucing it up instead.

I pay £285 for my 2004 D3, if you get an earlier one its not subjected to the high tax bracket.

Good to know. I thought the tax jumped up somewhere around 2003. So are the higher tax vehicles 2005 and later?

Still, when I do eventually change my D2 for something newer, I'll be looking for something a bit more than 2 years newer. I'll probably be looking for something less than 8 years old, which was how old my D2 S8 was when I bought it.

I cannot understand why anyone would base their car choice on the cost of road fund licence when the difference is less than 2 tanks of petrol.

It grieves me that my tax is more than my insurance, but I wouldn't switch to a lesser car just to save £215 per annum on tax.

i've got 56 plate and my road tax is still £285
I believe cut off was mid 2006

My Camper van costs £0 per year +++ (not that I suggest you all rush out and buy one though.............)

Well, it's an ongoing increase (2 tanks every year) but for me it wasn't the main reason, it just kinda swung it when I was contemplating upgrading. The main reason I didn't change is because my current S8 has been such a good car, coupled with the cost of buying another car, I was already leaning towards keeping my D2 when I realised the tax would be nearly twice as much.

Interesting. So what year does it increase I wonder? :Confused:

There was a change to the 3.0TDi just after the switchover which dropped it from the top bracket to the next one down.