MK5 Golf GTI

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Title: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Andy on December 01, 2016, 06:17:32 pm
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Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Andy on December 01, 2016, 06:18:05 pm
Mine £885
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: RetroRaz on December 01, 2016, 06:24:16 pm
What band is normal gti on?

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Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Andy on December 01, 2016, 06:25:27 pm
What is your reg,will have a look
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: v4rley on December 01, 2016, 06:29:04 pm
Band J 

Aren't you looking at first year rates?
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Andy on December 01, 2016, 06:36:45 pm
I hope so  :signLOL: think mine is staying the same
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: ducman77 on December 01, 2016, 06:40:21 pm
@Andy (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=164) an R32 is €1,800 a year in Ireland  :sad1:
It's a dream car of mine. But it's an almost impossible proposition because of the tax :sad1:

Regular golf gti is €710 per year if built before may 2008.
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: stuart-88 on December 01, 2016, 09:49:02 pm
£885!!! Makes my £500 seem a bargain then  :sick:

Edit: yeah just read it only comes into play with car built after 2017. At least that's one way of them clawing money back from the brexit issues  :signLOL:
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: rich83 on December 01, 2016, 11:45:24 pm
Mine £885

You are looking at the wrong list
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Andy on December 01, 2016, 11:50:08 pm
Mine £885

You are looking at the wrong list
Yeah think this was last year
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: rich83 on December 02, 2016, 12:39:50 am
No you were looking at first year road tax.

Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Andy on December 02, 2016, 12:49:34 am
Sounds about right for me  :signLOL:
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Hurdy on December 02, 2016, 10:50:46 am
Still only £30 a year for my 230bhp/360bhp Leon diesel.  :P
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Oldy on December 02, 2016, 01:25:07 pm
Andy the new rates only apply to cars registered on 01 April 2017.  Cars registered before that date are unaffected.
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: rdfcpete on December 02, 2016, 06:52:30 pm
£885 - F  *  C    K

Ruins all potential & back of fag packet dreams of an e92 M3   :sad1:
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: rich83 on December 02, 2016, 11:46:03 pm
Aston Martin rapid is £1120
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: r5gtt on December 03, 2016, 12:11:24 am
It's insane how they rape us out of every last penny we earn hence didn't buy an R32  :sick:
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: Oldy on December 03, 2016, 10:04:29 am
The new rates do not mean that all new cars registered on or after 01 April 2017 next year will be subject to higher tax than their current models.  It depends, first, on whether the list price is over £40K, and secondly on emissions. 

There is an initial first year tax for all cars (except those with zero emissions) on a sliding scale, based on emissions.  For the second and successive years the tax on  all cars is a standard annual tax of £140 ( but subject to an additional annual tax if the list price for the car is over £40K).

So e.g a car with emissions between 101 - 110 g/km will be subject to a first year tax of £140.00 and  then each following year at the standard rate of £140.00.  A car with emissions of 151 - 170  g/km will pay a first year tax of  £150.00 then from the second year onwards this reduces to the standard rate of  £140.00. 

However for any car that has a list price of over £40K  there will be an additional annual rate of   £310.00  which will be paid for each year for 5 years from the date of first registration.  So  on a car with e.g emissions of, say, 266 - 255 g/km with a list price of over £40K the tax in the first year  will be: the  first year tax, based on the emissions, of £1700; plus the additional tax, based on a list price of over £40K, of £310.  For the next 5  years the rate will reduce to the standard yearly rate of £140.00 plus the additional rate of £310. After 5 years it then reduces to £140 per annum. 

So after 5 years form the date of fiirst registration (after 01 April 2017) the  annual tax on all cars is only £140.00

But,  turning back to my first point, taking the GTI as an example, it will  will be cheaper to tax  a new Mk 7 bought on or after 01 April next year than it is to tax my MK5 GTI.  I currently pay £275 per annum.  The current list price of the Mk7  is about £27500. Quoted emissions  for the DSG version (if VW can be believed!)  are 149 g/km.  So as the list price is less than £40K it will not attract the additional tax.  Its emissions place it, just, within the 130 - 150 g/km scale.  This means the first year tax will be £200.  This will then reduce from the second year onwards to the standard rate only of £140.00.

Another good reason to drive a GTI
Title: Re: Car tax going up next year
Post by: rdfcpete on December 03, 2016, 12:44:56 pm
Aston Martin rapid is £1120

 :grin:

Been working with Italian consultants for most of the year and we got talking about cars etc last week. One mentioned that the Italians pay quite a lot more than the UK for pretty average cars for their road tax/highway tax. We took an extreme example and priced up the years costs for a Veyron 16:4 and it came to over 3200 EUROS (rough estimate).

Not sure how we can feel better off but apparently we should  :signLOL: