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buzzy bee
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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:43 am Post subject: Exhaust Emisions |
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Hi
I heard this morning about bringing in tax based on exhaust emisions for historic vehicles....
What is this going to mean, some of us will be seriously out of pocket...
Cheers
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Rick
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47Jag
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Remember it's April 1st.
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ukdave2002
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Exhaust Emisions |
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| buzzy bee wrote: | Hi
I heard this morning about bringing in tax based on exhaust emisions for historic vehicles....
What is this going to mean, some of us will be seriously out of pocket...
Cheers
Dave |
Dave, is this the same bill that's introducing water tax for all non essential consumption ?
Dave |
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buzzy bee
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| April Fools! hehhehe |
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MikeEdwards
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| One of the classic mags I read in WH Smiths yesterday had something about taxing based on propensity to rust - I assume that was also a joke, though they usually have some kind of giveaway like a spokesman called Lirpa Loof. |
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Julian
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure that it's good to joke about such things, as our fsuckwit politicians who ponce around in their Toyoto Priuses (priui?) are always looking for an easy taxation target.  Busy, you may end up having to eat those words at some stage 
Julian. |
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Bitumen Boy
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| One I saw earlier was talking about the impact of the fuel strike/panic buying on meals on wheels deliveries in the Rhondda... they were going to be delivered by people on roller skates, who were being trained for their task at the O Cwm On leisure centre. It was a surprisingly good piece of work for most of these things, in that I'd read through most of it before I realised it was a windup - mind you, it's not a lot stranger than some things that have really happened in the Valleys! |
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Julian
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Bitumen Boy wrote: | | mind you, it's not a lot stranger than some things that have really happened in the Valleys! |
Mainly interbreeding 
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buzzy bee
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Julian wrote: | I'm not sure that it's good to joke about such things, as our fsuckwit politicians who ponce around in their Toyoto Priuses (priui?) are always looking for an easy taxation target. Busy, you may end up having to eat those words at some stage
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You are probably right, it will come in at some point, but me making a joke out of it, will make no difference what so ever I can assure you, the goverment never listen to us anyway....
I often wonder why taxation is not based on the amount of miles driven, as oposed to the size of your vehicles engine, surely a super dooper fuel efficient car doing 150K a year is far worse than a landrover doing 5K or such like? |
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Julian
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:33 am Post subject: |
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I often wonder why taxation is not based on the amount of miles driven, like? |
Oh I think it's because they'd have to stick the price of fuel up to about £3/litre to compensate. Sales reps etc would be crucified and those of us (like myself) who own several vehicles and do few miles would have an easy time of it.
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MikeEdwards
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| buzzy bee wrote: | | I often wonder why taxation is not based on the amount of miles driven |
Because that would be sensible, fair, and would take far less administrative work to look after. |
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Jim.Walker
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| buzzy bee wrote: |
I often wonder why taxation is not based on the amount of miles driven, like? |
Now that would leave a wonderfully lucrative market for a speedo cable with a built in dog-clutch which could be switched in or out according to the need to use the speedo!
Jim. 
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Bitumen Boy
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| Julian wrote: | | Bitumen Boy wrote: | | mind you, it's not a lot stranger than some things that have really happened in the Valleys! |
Mainly interbreeding
Julian. |
Tell me about it. There are people round here who've never even been 20 miles down the road to Newport - and the least said about Newport the better... 
One guy down our street once asked me where I came from. Nottingham, I said - not quite, but at least most people have heard of it. He then asked me if you went through London to get to Nottingham, when I told him no he admitted he didn't know where Nottingham was. Well, I said, you go past Birmingham... and then he asked me where Birmingham was. This sort of ignorance isn't terribly uncommon in the Valleys - I blame the obsession with trying to teach the kids Welsh, a language which has no words for pretty much anything invented in the last quarter millennium  - though in fairness most people do at least have an inkling of where major cities like Nottingham and Birmingham are  |
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buzzy bee
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Nottingham, is that the Scotish Nottingham? or is it the one near manchester..... Hang on I will start being told I am from the Valley's, I know where Nottingham is, near Derby... lol Put that right before the rumours start.... |
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