It's my own fault, I should have checked. Just found out I'm going to have to pay £450 a year tax on this new DS 2.0 diesel I've just got and if I'd realised this I wouldn't have got it. I didn't know you got taxed extra for any car with a list price over £40k. I thought it went on CO2 so paying more than I did for a 3.0 Jeep. Car is 5 days old on a PCP now I'm stuck and wondering how the hell to get out of it.
You won't unfortunately unless you get shot of the car. It's a bit annoying if the car cost just over the £40k.
You're paying basically an extra £350 more than you would because of the cars value. The first year doesn't matter, it's all included in the price, it's just the next 5 years renewal.
That's why they brought in the Landmark edition IMHO (more or less exactly the same as HSE, even got HSE on the back) but it's just under £40k.
I most certainly WAS NOT going to give this corrupt Government £450 a year just for the sake of it!
Thems the rules. Personally I can see it far enough, but I knew it was coming if I spent £40k plus.
Council Tax is another thing I dislike. I don't see why I should be subsidising everyone else, I mean if I go into the supermarket for a loaf of bread, they don't charge me more cos I've got a certain banded house, so why should local government charge me proportionately more for emptying a bin because I've got a bigger house than someone else? or why people that instantly double the size of their house get away with it without a revaluation.
Yup. But then you have Wee Burney running the show up there, and as disgusted as I am with this lot, if she was running the land here I wou,d have committed treason by now!
It is what it is at the end of the day. I wanted the car I have got, and have to accept it has the higher tax band for until it is 5 years old.
Over the course of the year, the extra £310 in reality is not a ball breaker. If an individual can afford a £40K plus car, then is another £310 really going to make a difference?
I am not saying I agree with it, but it is what it is. Drops down to £140 again when the car hits 5 years old.
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