19 Jan 2017, 11:53 (Ref:3703562)
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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.  |
I'm expecting some punitive penalties on older diesels sometime soon. 
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