Price to tax a lude?

[Gayno]

I'm paying £250 a year 'road tax' and averaging 15,000 miles

and me...........I only have the Prelude on the road 6 months a year, and in that time do around 3,000 miles. Is that a fair charge?

I must admit, @bb1boy, and I'm not saying you are wrong, but you are the first person I've heard who has anything against this idea of a system. Anyone who I've explained it to so far has said it would be better than the current system!

[wurlycorner]

the power of gayno's persuasion...

[Gayno]

the power of gayno's persuasion...

You didn't take much persuasion!!

[Sailor]

Vehicle Excise Duty (it's not been Road Tax since 1937)

Looks like tax, sounds like tax and tastes like tax so it cant be tax, look the other way quick!

Absolutely right. It's a tax and bears no relation to what's spent on the roads. The money is collected and put in the same pot as everything else.
If you try to incorporate it into fuel prices you get the transport lobby on your back: the price of everything will go up, even if the tax is spread fairly. But once the hubbub has died down, you (the government) can now collect even more money without trying too hard. How much would an extra 1p a litre bring in at budget time? Even easier pickings than now.

I think I read somewhere that the total "road tax" collected by Germany is only a fifth of what we pay per kilometre. Our roads must be five times better, then, right? Hah!

[bb1boy]

Sorry @Gayno, I hear what you are saying but I'm with @Sailor - there's too much difference between the amount of miles people do, in my opinion. Sadly this country is all to keen to rip off motorists because we are an easy target. There is enough tax on fuel already. I don't know what the answer is but I'm pretty sure raising the cost of fuel is not the answer.

Also, to throw another cat amongst the pigeons, I think horse riders should also pay road tax of some description..

[lewd lude lover]

I dont think bloody horses should be on the roads at all. Why are they always only going at 2.2mph? It wouldn't be so bastardo dangeroso if they would just get along at an acceptable clip. Meandering about on national speed limit roads, insanity i tell you!

[bb1boy]

While I wholeheartedly agree with you LLL we're never gonna get the damn things off the road.. or the massive piles of sh!t they leave behind!

[lewd lude lover]

its the massive piles of dead hoprse that get me down. just speed up a bit and cars would have time to avoid...

but no. always just chillin along shouting at cars.

[mercutio]

I like horses but I don't think they should be on the road if you had a car that was totally unpredictable and at any moment could charge off in a random direction and be unstoppable it wouldn't be allowed on the road

[Sailor]

Chill out, chaps.

We have badgers, deer, hares, rabbits, horses, pheasants, pedestrians, cyclists, tractors, weasels, broken tree branches and and and ... you get the picture. And what's the most irritating of the lot? Large, powerful cars doing 24mph.

Hampshire's full of horses. And why not? They can add at least 5 minutes to one of my regular journeys. Tractors can add 10. in the main, horses are to be found where the lay of the land is to be savoured, not raced through.

As for unpredictability: we've had two write-offs in the last few years. One was caused by a frightened bambi; the other by a bitch-cow driving a Golf. Horses are thick, stupid beasts, I grant you, and we'd be better off riding intelligent creatures like pigs. But they're not the most dangerous of beasts in the countryside. That position is permanently reserved for humans.