DVLA TAX - Robbin Cnuts

[bezzabsa]

so Corsa is off opp north tomorrow, so have insured and taxed the van..

Insurance is £300 LOWER than the Corsa was..

BUT

Tax..Corsa £30.....Van  with same 1.3cdti lump Euro 4...£288.45 :O 

No sense in it at all!!!!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

....Tax..Corsa £30.....Van  with same 1.3cdti lump Euro 4...£288.45 😮

No sense in it at all!!!!

How'd they work that out? Did the VED rates change based on year? 

[bezzabsa]

2 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

How'd they work that out? Did the VED rates change based on year? 

not a friggin clue......its cus its a van...I think....

[New POD]

24 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

 

Insurance is £300 LOWER

Tax is £258.45 higher

 

How grumpy can you be? £41.55 better off and he's still complaining. 

[bezzabsa]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

How grumpy can you be? £41.55 better off and he's still complaining. 

I can tax and insure the van for less than the insurance on corsa (monthly figures) and have £20 odd quid extra 

[bub2006]

Van uses commercial rates I think. My last berlingo was the same as your corsa but if it was a multispace it would have been 155 If I remember right. 

[Asimo]

Commercials under 3.5 tonnes are all taxed the same since 2001 (except for 2003 -2010 when vehicles meeting Euro4 and then Euro5 standards are half price).

 

[cobblers]

I fell foul of this on the other side when I bought a 2007 T5 that was registered a "van with windows" and it was somehow about £530,000 a year to tax.

[warch]

All the work vans I ever had seemed to have high road tax according to the figure on the tax disc (ask your dad). I expect this is because a lot of them are expected to be commercial vehicles so the owner isn't really bothered what the VED costs as they'll just claim it back. Probably a bit of a cash cow for the gubberment that most first users aren't fussed about. 

[New POD]

21 minutes ago, warch said:

All the work vans I ever had seemed to have high road tax according to the figure on the tax disc (ask your dad). I expect this is because a lot of them are expected to be commercial vehicles so the owner isn't really bothered what the VED costs as they'll just claim it back. Probably a bit of a cash cow for the gubberment that most first users aren't fussed about. 

You can't claim VED back. Are you getting confused with VAT? 

[warch]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

You can't claim VED back. Are you getting confused with VAT? 

I thought you could claim back VED, fuel and insurance as running costs as an alternative to claiming a mileage allowance.

[New POD]

You can offset it against tax, but then if you use the van for personal use there are BIK implications. 

[Asimo]

[warch]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

You can offset it against tax, but then if you use the van for personal use there are BIK implications. 

That was what I meant, sorry for the confusion. If you are able to claw back costs for things like VED as a business  you probably don't notice the cost, but a private owner would.