25yr rolling car tax

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Theres too many cars over 25 years old nowadays for the government to want to do something like this. The 25 year old tax exeption was in force back when anything over 20 years old on the roads was very rare, infact I think most cars had been scrapped by the time they were 10. A more achievable petition would be a free or greatly reduced tax disc for cars over 30 years old.

Oh... and signed.

Maybe we should be lobbying Cameron instead of Brown anyway?

It's a shame, but this is exactly the opposite of what the government wants to be seen to be doing. Old cars make pollution and kill baby dolphins don't you know!

Instead of offering cheap or free tax, you can trade your "old banger" in against a new Corsa and get a whopping two grand off the price (which has been inflated by not far off two grand)

Save the whales - Buy a car you don't need and can't really afford (On finance)

I'll just add that I don't particularly agree with re-instating the rolling tax exemption - I think that if they (whoever is in power at the time) did do that, it would come with a whole load of clauses about when you can use your classic, how many miles you can do, and even which roads you can travel on and when.

I'd sooner pay my £180-odd a year and be able to use my classic car when I like.

While the tax exemption is nice, its a flawed concept and open to arguments from "green" idiots as well as the few with a brain.

Road tax is supposedly to keep the roads in good order (Lets ignore the fact that it only just funds the admin)
If old cars are driving on the roads, they are wearing them out and should pay for said wear.

50p a day is honestly a small price to pay for the upkeep of the road system. Despite the terrible local roads (I saw sparks come from under my car three times today) the motorways are generally managed reasonably well. I spend more on macdonalds than road tax, and I know which I'd rather go without. Roads VS poor quality burgers.


The argument that classic cars are barely used is surely a valid one, but could this restriction not be based on mileage rather than a particular manufacture date (which makes no sense at all)


A reform of the tax system is really needed. Tonight I took a friend of mine up to his old house to pick his car up, which is insured and tested, but because the post office was closed he was liable to whatever fine driving without tax will get you. The only real place taxing has is to verify insurance details. Call me crazy, but why not add a little to the tax on fuel (3p per litre would cover it for all of us) and just use ANPR to check for MOT and insurance. Sure, insurance doesn't go on the database immediately so those few would have to present the docs (again, the alternative is for the DVLA to move into the 21st century and operate a live database)

The system we have now is flawed, but is £80 every 6 months really THAT bad. Look at the systems in other countries!

currently holland has a 25 years rolling car tax, but they stop it in 2012 so all 1986 cars will get tax exempt, later ones won't anymore...

Bang on the money.

As to some other comments on who might be next PM I'm sorry but I don't 'do' politics and don't trust a single one of them. As a gimmick some might say they'll restore the 25 year old rolling date but we'd end up paying for it somehere else anyhow.
Stuff politics, bring on the cars and leave the greedy, money grabbing antics of the chosen few to a political website.