Road Tax Exemption - Government Poll

[Peter Mallett]

Sign the petiton if you think the government should move the date for tax exemption.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/historiccartax/

Alternatively should the idea be scrapped?

[John Turner]

Well I've signed up to that. I'm biased, of course, but I think it should be a rolling 25 years. By then these cars will have paid their dues in tax, as well as neutralised their carbon footprint, despite what some of the environmentalists say. The problem I see is that there will be an opposing motion from those, and it could become a political hot potato.

[Daimlerman]

I've signed.

Mind you I have a vested interest as well!

If there is no incentive many classic cars of the future will simply be allowed to rot away. As this country does not have a proper British car manufacturing industry any more it is essential that at least some of our heritage is preserved, and a sliding 25 year exemption could just be the incentive that is needed to do this.

[johnh875]

The UK must be one of the only places that has a fixed cut-off date for what constitutes an historic car, which is surely a bit hard to justify from a logical point of view, when the cars are now up to 35 years old.

In Australia it varies between states as 25 or 30 years old (rolling) but we don't have tax exemption, just concessional registration/permit that is cheaper than for a modern car.