Vehicle Road tax by mile.....

[Bender]

Tax on fuel ain't feasible for electric as you can plug them in anywhere, if they start taxing by mile they can say it's fare on all, are they going to charge more per mile if your driving round in something that does 8mpg?

 

 

I can do 200 mile a day how would I pass that onto customers.

[Mr Fro]

Why don't they just increase it more?

Just like smoking they have had to tax cigarettes massively to get people to stop.

Cars will be the same.

Because not all of us live anywhere near any sort of functional public transport!

Taxing the shit out of smokes doesn't make people stop, it just makes them look for alternatives i.e. moody fags from Spain/France/wherever. Thus completely bypassing the tax system.

I expect there will be some enterprising individuals who cobble together workable biodiesel & ethanol to get round it.

[bonio]

I can do 200 mile a day how would I pass that onto customers.

 

You're already paying 6p a mile in petrol taxes. How do you pass this onto your customers?

[Marino]

The world is getting better every day

We should emigrate to Mars

[Guest Swagman]

4 hours ago, Marino said:

The world is getting better every day

We should emigrate to Mars

How much is fuel on Mars.

[Stu]

Just now, Swagman said:

How much is fuel on Mars.

I have heard the roads are crap! 

[Guest Swagman]

Just now, Stu said:

I have heard the roads are crap! 

Well be just the same as here then.

[Bender]

5 hours ago, bonio said:

 

You're already paying 6p a mile in petrol taxes. How do you pass this onto your customers?

The first time they came up with the idea it was between 20p and 1.20 a mile the cost increase at those rates a no no.

[skyrider]

11 hours ago, Marino said:

The world is getting better every day

We should emigrate to Mars

you might come across the clangers 

[TimR]

https://www.mag-uk.org/motorcycles-not-in-scope-for-2030-end-of-sale-of-petrol-and-diesel-vehicles/

[James in Brum]

I wonder how many of the vehicles on the road are new compared to how many not new. 

[Six30]

Just now, James in Brum said:

I wonder how many of the vehicles on the road are new compared to how many not new. 

they are all not new as soon as driven off forecourt.

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

33 minutes ago, TimR said:

https://www.mag-uk.org/motorcycles-not-in-scope-for-2030-end-of-sale-of-petrol-and-diesel-vehicles/

Now that’s good to hear. Believing it’s another matter but still good. 

[Bender]

Which ever way it goes it's always going to favour those who have money, tax by mile may make that 5Ltr supercharged range rover viable, I would do less than 3k a year in it.

[bonio]

If it were me, I'd levy a monthly tax, based on some notional vehicle value. Add in some special rates for classic cars and bikes. Job done.  
Only problem is that it's more expensive to collect than a sales tax.

[Bender]

I had a quick check and New Zealand charges about 7p a mile for vehicles under 3.5t, I can't see ours being anywhere near that low.

[bonio]

7p a mile on vehicles under 3.5t would raise about £19bn a year. Fuel duty on vehicles under 3.5t currently raises about £16bn.

[Bender]

7 hours ago, bonio said:

7p a mile on vehicles under 3.5t would raise about £19bn a year. Fuel duty on vehicles under 3.5t currently raises about £16bn.

Yup but they need billions to plug the huge hole in the country's finances 

[bonio]

14 minutes ago, Bender said:

Yup but they need billions to plug the huge hole in the country's finances 

Yes we do mate; you're right