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April 2017 VED changes

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The government can't spend months keep changing legislation on road tax. It will likely stay like this for another 5-10 years at least. Also, you can't retrospectively apply it.
They have done it before and it would not surprise me for them to do it again, my 5.6 Chrysler had a tax £5 dearer than a 3 litre diesel when I bought it, £215 the next year they decide to put that up to £405 and it just kept going up from there
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They have done it before and it would not surprise me for them to do it again, my 5.6 Chrysler had a tax £5 dearer than a 3 litre diesel when I bought it, £215 the next year they decide to put that up to £405 and it just kept going up from there
Yes but the difference with these rules is that it affects all cars under £40k. Where before they could increase the tax on only gas guzzlers.
What is more likely to happen is that in 3 or 4 years the price of a Mustang will exceed £40k!
 

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Yes but the difference with these rules is that it affects all cars under £40k. Where before they could increase the tax on only gas guzzlers.
What is more likely to happen is that in 3 or 4 years the price of a Mustang will exceed £40k!
But only if they don't fine tune it, which is what I can see them doing, by either dropping the price back a bit or more likely adding a emissions clause, but time will tell if they leave it alone or not
 

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But only if they don't fine tune it, which is what I can see them doing, by either dropping the price back a bit or more likely adding a emissions clause, but time will tell if they leave it alone or not
Agreed :cheers:
 

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The longer you keep it the less the difference is anyway. Am I happy to pay £10 a week tax for my Mustang? Yes. And I'll have had it a year before the change comes in. The older you get, the more you realise you can't buy time back. An extra summer with my Mustang? Worth every penny.
 
 








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