Road Tax - What are you paying?
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If you buy a new V8 Ford Mustang after 1st April next year you'll pay £5,490 VED for the first year!
Or, in fact for any new car with emissions in excess of 255g/km CO2, first-year VED is set to cost £5,490.
Not an issue that will trouble me, but it'll trouble a lot of new car sales staff.
Or, in fact for any new car with emissions in excess of 255g/km CO2, first-year VED is set to cost £5,490.
Not an issue that will trouble me, but it'll trouble a lot of new car sales staff.
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I've just taxed my 1990 Golf GTI this morning. I do it by direct debit for just the months that I'm going to use it, but if I were to tax it for the whole year, it would be £360. I can't remember last years figures, but I'm sure it wasn't that much. Anyone else with a pre-2001 car that can remember what they paid last year?
Look at last year’s bank statements?
Looking forward to taxing my van in August. You can't beat £00.00.
Mind you, the C70 is in for its MOT today and 6 months tax on that will leave me feeling anally invaded like an 8 stone shoplifter sharing a cell with Bubba. Pass the Swarfega!
Mind you, the C70 is in for its MOT today and 6 months tax on that will leave me feeling anally invaded like an 8 stone shoplifter sharing a cell with Bubba. Pass the Swarfega!
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I thought of that after I'd posted. It seems it was getting on for just as expensive last year. £30.27 per month then, £31.50 per month now.
Yes - it would have been £345
That would also have been my approach
I have paid my Corrado's VED monthly - it was £30.19 in 2024 and is now £31.50 post increase (4.35%) which is equivalent to going from £362.25 to £378 as a sum of those instalments. Knock off the interest they charge and it's £345 and £360 for 2024and 2025 annual rate respectively
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Glad I don't get the tax reminder for my RS3, would probably pass out.
The only way to reduce your liability is to drive a car registered between March 2001 and April 2017 car and make sure it emits less than 120 g/km of CO2
My 2013 Audi A4 was £35/year. My subsequent A6, whilst (just) pre-April 2017 was 121g/km and those 2 grammes (whether it made a shred of difference or not) was the difference between £35 and £160 per year.
My 2013 Audi A4 was £35/year. My subsequent A6, whilst (just) pre-April 2017 was 121g/km and those 2 grammes (whether it made a shred of difference or not) was the difference between £35 and £160 per year.
Or get someone to kneecap you and claim the £00.00 tax rate.
In my case I simply wore my hip out, and the medicos won't replace it until it completely immobilises me due to my rather inconvenient dangerous reactions to general anaesthetic. Meanwhile I hobble with a stick but get free road tax.
In my case I simply wore my hip out, and the medicos won't replace it until it completely immobilises me due to my rather inconvenient dangerous reactions to general anaesthetic. Meanwhile I hobble with a stick but get free road tax.
I'd take that as my way out.
" Can you count down from 10 for me?"
"10...9...8.........7..............6...............
That's not far off the mark.I'd take that as my way out.
" Can you count down from 10 for me?"
"10...9...8.........7..............6...............
When they do eventually do the deed the consultant was telling they'll have a full team of senior consultant anaesthetologists and a full emergency resus team on standby throughout the procedure. Dangerous and expensive, so it'll be a 'when all other options are exhausted' type scenario.
The first two ops under a general I was fine, but was younger then. The most recent one had them having to resuscitate me, and the after effects of that left me feeling pretty crummy for a few weeks.
For now I'm hobbling about OK. I can't run any more which is a bummer as I used to enjoy it. Sleep can be the worst part sometimes, but fortunately I find RIB beds very supportive.
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Just checked and my little Audi would cost £620 a year 
I would always duck out of elective surgery, I guess if they found me unconscious under a 32 tonner unconscious, them I would have little say about it but generally I would just walk the other way! By the way many types of orthopaedic surgery can be done with a spinal block. Of course it has its own risks but if you do not mind listening to and feeling the shake but not the pain of chiselling and hammering depending on procedure, that is another way out for some. Loosing weight in the first hand goes along way to taking the weight off, so it should but really in the first instance it helps and add fitness but also often surgery is often blocked because of obesity. Being over weight is not so good for mobility after and it does not do so good when running for a bus or away from someone else’s fella either but perhaps you do not do that any way. Best of fortune what ever happens or is decided, I realise it is no fun in the interim, the pain, discomfort and general inability not to mention the phycological associated stresses and personal interactions.