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Guys

I thought that if your RS4 was registered after March 2001, we had to pay £400 / year?

Mine was registered Sept 2001 and reminder is at £215 per year

Not that I'm complaining of course

Bugger i got a late 2000 to save some money

i think there has either been a delay of the new tax or there has been an adjustment cant remember which. but which ever it is - its all goodddddd.

Jules wrote:Bugger i got a late 2000 to save some money

Cheap skate!

rtd wrote:i think there has either been a delay of the new tax or there has been an adjustment cant remember which. but which ever it is - its all goodddddd.

Hope the delay is permanent!

Something must have happened though.

From 2010 you tax if your car is registered after late March 2001 will be max £400 subject to tax increases each budget.
The big tax will be for vehicles registered after 2010 for example a chelsea tractor will be hit hard if the emissions are high ie around £750 a year but it is expected to go up to as high as a grand. All it is an emmisions tax not down to the amount of miles you drive on substandard roads!

Was looking at this the other day, it appears that althought the VEL bands go from A-M, and there will be an increase across the board, cars registered before 1st March 2001 will still be banded according to engine size, and those afterwards will be banded on emissions.

Vehicles registered prior to 1 March 2001 with an engine size greater than 1549cc are currently £190 pa.

Those that produce more than 225g/km CO2 registered between 1st March 2001 and 23 March 2006 will move into band K, meaning that this years £215 increases to £245 next year for B5 RS4 owners.

This might help:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Ow ... G_10012524

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/C ... and_k.html

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/C ... guide.html

Hoe this is useful...

So the b7 rs4 boys,should be paying a fair chunk,any idea's how much

I recon this government has put it on the back burner to become law AFTER the next election which is hopefully gonna be a blood bath for Labour... F****** Ar******!!!!!!

problem is once its gone through government, the next government CANNOT undo any of it, so Labour leaves it as is, it gets brushed under the carpet for a few months then hey presto, higher tax, higher fuel costs, higher everything else.

Owners are then fuc*** over again!!

meanwhile Mr Brown and that daft bint of his will be sat on Bora Bora witha king size cocktail and a golf umbrella stuck in it as they give 2 fingers to the absolute abortion they have left this country in.

so buy a pre 2001 RS4 if you dont fancy having your tax doubled over night!!

Just bought 12 months at £215... Woohoo !

Can anyone really imagine this skint government delaying a tax rise, not me. Nothing has changed apart from the inclusion of cars registered before March 2006 being included in group K rather than the top bracket which makes RS4's registered before March 2006 a slightly better buy than those after. Surely the cost of road tax when considered against the running costs puts it in perspective.

Still look on the bright side you are not taxing your car in Ireland, a B7 RS4 would cost 2100 euro to tax, ouch!!

http://www.irishlinks.co.uk/car-tax-ireland.htm

That band K thing is new as the pre march 2001 were 185 capped and the post march 2001 were going to be in the highest group at 410 a year which was ridiculous.

Gordon Brown would hopefully be found swinging from a lamp post if this went ahead.
agreed what was said about the cost of the car etc and running costs... big breath... but IF the money raised from roadtax and fuel duty WAS INVESTED in the roads AND NOT into immigration/ home the drop outs/ pregnant teenagers/ bailing out banks etc then PERHAPS we would have an up to date, modern transport network instead of this roman track surfaced excuse for a road we have to submit our cars to.

besides its SOOOOO expensive to do anything in this country, its any wonder we can get around at all!!

so I assume you are getting your money's worth from a RS6 turbo MRC mapped 600bhp monster if the DVLA are taxing you at the stock CO2 output of the 380bhp OEM engine........

worth buying a super mini and turboing the crap out of it!!