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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
The initial tax usually gets hidden in the purchase price, and if the vehicle is £120K or whatever, £2K likely won't be too painful! And most over £40K stuff is probably company purchased. It does mean though that anyone looking at buying a used car in the next few years will need to carefully check the ved on it. A car could feasibly be zero tax if first licensed in March, but £140 a few days later..... Same happened back in 2006. Disco and others in same tax band virtually doubled. Buy a used March 2006 one and save a load of annual dosh on one licensed in April! Daft.  |
But .... it's nearly always been daft one way or another.
The trouble is that with inflation and various "requirements" to be usable and useful on the road these days, the prices of quite ordinary cars for th e times have been creeping up.
You don't need to be buying anything close to a supercar to exceed 40k.
I suppose it's just the government tax machine ensuring they get a full cut of the PPI compensation claims.