Rolling 25yr Tax Exemption - Reinstate?

i think the main issue is that you could easily trundle round in a 1990 205GR and have it perform all daily duties. this was the failure of the 1995 historic vehicle class, it ended up incentivising driving old cars, rather than being a bonus to classic car owners, which pretty much defies all current gvmt policies, emissions, safety, more importantly their revenue.

Well its up to to you .You do what you think is right ,For me i have signed for it..

So how would having free road tax stop you driving your car when you want to?
Ask yourself this question if someone offered you £200 to do with what you want every year would you take it?
If not then you obviously have more money than sense.

i think his point was, if you have a car older than 25 years and 200 quid a year is make or break, you probably shouldnt be owning 25 year old cars.

me personally, 200 quid isnt make or break, and i don't own cars older than 40 years specifically to save 200 quid a year, because thats preposterous in the grand scheme of running costs. however, if you are into land rovers an are on ebay often, youll see people quite happy to drive round in ringers for 200 quid saving, and it be a selling feature. plus when historic vehicle class was introduced in 1995 they grossly underestimated how stingy people are, as the number of 25 + years old cars that returned to the road tripled, in todays %'s that would be 3/4 of a million extra vehicles

the govt of whatever flavour will not simply skip from 40year rolling expemtion to 25year (so basically from 1976 to 1991). The math don't add up. you only have to look at the road fund changes coming in 2017 to see it.

agree, right now. although in 2012 it was headline news that EU was trying to implement regs which would limit classic vehicles to a type approval system (basically ruling out the ability to modify) and also last year head line news about banning +20 year old cars from paris.

having a historic vehicle class does conveniently pigeon hole us separately and stick our head above the parapet, compared to "every other paying motorist"

The rolling exemption was reinstated, but they couldn't back-date it. So it was effectively paused by Labour and that damage can't be undone.

I wouldn't moan about paying an extra penny or two on fuel instead of RFL as it probably would save me money with my £500 per year Volvo and my classics that are not exempt. My annual mileage is less than 5000.

BUT what about my company truck which is rated at £165 a year RFL, does 10 MPG and as it can be on the road for 15 hours a day the mileage is high I can use 200 litres in one day, increasing the road tax/ fuel would mean passing the costs onto the customer?

I have an interest in this, as my car is 31 years old. Would I like to get free tax? Definitely! It wouldn't really make a lot of difference, but is £200 that could go somewhere else like getting the car running again. I take the point about becoming singled out, such as being banned from cities, but have heard talk that my "modern" Clio may be banned in a few years, so tax might not make much difference! Are there really that many 25 - 40 year old cars that it is going to cost the government that much? I would suggest it will cost a miniscule percentage of the cost of scrapping paper tax discs.

Don't approve of tax on (more) tax on fuel. It would actually save me money, as I don't use the cars a lot, but would cripple many companies and increase costs greatly, so increasing prices..