25 year tax exempt petition - sign.

On one level I'd love this to work but consider this fact... the level of government borrowing is such that for every £1 they spend they only earn 75p from revenues. Last calculation I saw (earlier this week) put the borrowing deficit for fiscal stimulus at £33,800 per household. Before loan interest. So that's a good £50K extra tax per household they have to raise to pay that back over 2 years. And that's not including the other debt and interest they have to service.

They are looking at cutting back the working tax credit and removing funding from the working mothers incentive schemes (child care vouchers being cut)

So they would regard giving free road tax to "some old bangers" as a good thing for why?

In fact I would not regard it as a good thing myself at the moment.

I'd agree with the above. I've signed numerous petitions on the above site, and all have been answered by some meaningless guff statement from some minister or another, and pursued no further. I'd say there's a better chance of my nan leaping out of her chair and doing the macarena than the rolling 25 years being reinstated.

I'm just resigned to the fact that old cars can be an expensive hobby, and there are some things that you just have to pay for.

Sorry to sound defeatist...

the thing about road pricing is there were no actual proposals, not real ones. So I'm not sure its a success on that case. Plus half the people were saying it was a universal tracking system. Some govt. spokesman then just says "we don't plan to track everybody's movements and there is no proposal for road pricing" and evryoe thinks victory. Same as a petition against compulsory homosexuality or something equally daft.

I've not heard of one success against a genuine bit of legislation from this site, although the original "tax exempt" thing came about because of a paper based petition organised by Practical Classics and others.

If you want to change law you need to be in the official consultation. That's where it matters. In the formal consultation and in the lobby. This is why we need people like the ACE and FBHVC and why its a crime that AA and RAC are pretty much just insurance companies now.

Thing is if you buy an early car you normally pay alot more for it, and even then the later cars tend to have benefits of their own.

But as said with borrowing through the roof I think we're lucky to have the pre-73 thing tbh as rumours have it that they don't want that as it is.

Rather than sign this petition, I have made a massive meat and potato pie in the shape of my knackers and fed it to the neighbours dog, as I felt that it would be equally as effective in getting the 25-year tax thing reinstated. Fingers crossed eh!

Is no chance right now when they are giving taxpayers money away for folks to scrap them...... offering them free tax to keep them going would make a mockery of the scrappage deal. I read somewhere that it takes more energy to make a new car than the new car will use in an average car lifetime. All this wasted energy for an extra couple of miles a gallon! Recycling OLD cars by fixing them up has to be the way forward.

I've written the numbers 2 and 5 (in that order) on one of my cats in the hope that Gordon Brown might read it. I'm expecting my free tax disc any day now.

;D

The MOT is a different measure of CO2 than the tax is based on. If based on the same basis as the RFL tax system you'd be in the £450 a year tax bracket.

For the MOT its a fairly crude measure of how much CO2 as a proportion of the gas coming out of your car there is.

For emissions taxation its how much CO2 your car emits in a mile of driving. Or kilometer probably.

Quite possibly, all mine are "visual smoke check" except the Lexus so meh