New tax rates for heavier vehicles.

(something i ripped from another forum..)


Insurers are poised to start taxing vehicles on their kerb-weight rather than on their engine size or make in the future.

The Association of British Insurers are now to put more emphasis on the weight of any vehicle as the heavier it is the more damage it is likely to do in any accident.

The new ratings are to be introduced later in the year where the number of groups will increase from 20 to 50 reflecting the newest technological changes.

This system was last reviewed in 1992.

This change is expected to hit four-by-fours and SUVs harder than most others.

*makes mental note to buy very light weight car*

Im not sure if its a good idea??

i duno, i guess it depends if your occupation is considered.

For example things like tractors but it might discourage well off people buying huge cars for taking their 1 child to school and then back home.

I'm assuming you're talking about farming equipment when you say tractor. If so, they should be exemt from the tax because they aren't really used on the road for transportation purposes.

yea thats pretty much what i was talking bout. we get tractors driving around on the roads though.

Guess you never been to wales or ireland then..

lol happens here as well mark...seriously you'll be quite happily driving along and then its like...oh its a tractor.

Hay you live near stone henge? you probably see the tanks driving around the roads there!!

Stonge henge? Thats friggin miles away from me and angel cake. She lives near to me

i do indeedy...about 20 minutes if that. but i see army vehicles around a lot as well as i have an army base behind my house on the other side of the canal. But bout 15 minutes down the road is an agricultrual college so theres always lots of farm stuff. then if you go down towards alton it's all farms that way as well.

But not near stone henge

And I thought I was living in a hick town.

There are loads of tractors on the way to Newbury

lol no.