This new £3,300 tax on the price of a new car, in order (presumably) to deter us from buying new cars and harming the environment ... is that before or after the £2,000 scrappage allowance introduced in order to encourage us to buy new cars and help the economy?
Just wondering.
Wondered the same thing. Didn't the govt already introduce a purchase tax in the form of a higher VED the first year? Wasn't that introduced just before the car market crashed?
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It went up £25, in the form of a charge for new cars only - supposedly to cover the cost of issuing the first V5.
ReplyDeleteIt came in at *very* short notice on 2 January 2004; I recall this because a very embarrassed Porsche dealership had to explain that although I had already handed them a cheque with an eyewatering sum written on it, they needed another £25 before they could release the shiny new toy that was sitting in front of me...
Jesus said, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand." Mt.12.25
ReplyDeleteI think this was something more recent, and I'm sure it was more than £25.
ReplyDeleteRings a bell, now you mention it, Blue.
ReplyDeleteAlbert - quite.
Amusing isn't it. For years they bang on that we consume too much, then when demand falls and they panic, then run up the mother of all deficits printing money, cutting sale tax and subsiding car manufacturers.
ReplyDeleteCome on though, you knew it wouldn't be long before they started suggesting clobbering motorists again. Personally I think the next government will sell the motorway network and let the private sector clobber us for them.
Absolutely. It's almost as if they were a bunch of idiots with no common sense and no idea of a coherent plan, running around in a state of blind panic able to focus only on their impending doom in 7 months' time....
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