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2009 vehicle excise duty reform

April 3, 2008 Posted by: Lee Sibbald

The Budget announced that, in April 2009, the VED system will be reformed to incentivise lower emitting cars. The key points are:

From April 2009, a new graduated VED scheme applies, with a new top band - Band M - for cars emitting over 225g/km of CO2.
In 2010/11, a new first year rate for all cars will be applied according to the scale shown below.
From 2010/11, the zero VED rate will extend to all new cars emitting 130g/km of CO2 or less in the first year of ownership.
The first year rate for all new cars emitting between 131 and 160g/km of CO2 will be held at the standard rate for 2010/11.
The introduction of a first-year rate of £950 for cars in Band M in 2010/11.

VED bands, including 2009 reform

VED Band	CO2 emissions (g/km)	2008/9 (1*) standard rate (£) (petrol/diesel cars)	2008/9 (1*) standard rate (£) (alternative fuels)	CO2 emissions (g/km)	2009/10 (4*) standard rate (£)	2010/11 first year rate (£)	2010/11 standard rate (£)

A	Up to 100	0	0	Up to 100	0	0	0
B	101-120	35	15	101-110	20	0	20
C	121-150	120	100	111-120	30	0	35
D	151-165	145	125	121-130	90	0	95
E	166-185	170	150	131-140	110	115	115
F	Over 186 (2*)	210	195	141-150	120	125	125
G	Over 226 (3*)	400	385	151-160	150	155	155
H				161-170	175	250	180
I				171-180	205	300	210
J				181-200	260	425	270
K				201-225	300	550	310
L				226-255	415	750	430
M				Over 255	440	950	455

1* Effective from March 13, 2008. 2* For cars registered before March 23, 2006. 3* For cars registered on or after March 23, 2006. 4* Alternative fuel discount 2009/10: £20 Bands A-I, £15 Bands J-M. 2010/11 £10 for all cars.

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How can this be fair! I walk to work and drive less than 5000 miles a year yet I will end up paying more to have a vehicle sat at home, which will be devalued due to increased tax so it will become uneconomic to replace.

Why can’t they scrap excise duty and fuel duty and come up with some reformed fuel levy so those who do fewer miles or those with efficient cars will benefit?

Can I ask how this move is going to lead to lower CO2 emissions when the new VED regime will favour the more polluting, pre 2001 registered cars, which will be on a flat rate of VED based on engine size and not emission? Not everyone can afford a new car, and I can see the bottom dropping out of the post 2001 market of (larger) second hand cars.

For example…1985 Ford Capri 3.0S (probably half a tonne of CO2 per km!!!)- VED of £200. 2008 Ford Focus 2.0 Duratec (189g/km) will have a showroom “tax” of 425 and VED of 270 from 2009. I know which one I’d rather be standing behind in terms of what’s coming out of the back end!

Tell EVERYONE you know, that you voted Labour all your life and if this does not get scrapped you WILL vote Conservative.

If enough people say these words, IT WILL BE ABANDONED - I kid you not - POLL TAX anyone?

Drive 1000 miles or 20000 miles - you pay the same yet Mr 20000 miles generates 20 times more CO2.

Will you take a stand for once - or you will simply p*ss in the wind like most of us British fools.

Can somebody please explain the cost of taxing pre-2001 vehicles from 2009. At the moment it is simply a case two levels of VED dependent on whether the vehicle is above or below 1549 cc .My understanding is that a mimmum flat rate of £200 will apply to small engined vehicles but how about ,for instance, an old range rover?

In 2001 I purchased a 1994 low mileage Volvo Wentworth 2.0 Litre Estate, specifically to convert it to LPG, which my son and I did.
It has run so ever since and now has 144,000 mies on the clock and looks like doing at least as much again.
All the best websites tell me I am ’saving’ at least 1 tonne of CO2 polution per year, (as well as half the price of the petrol I would have been using.)
Additionally of course, no CO2 has been produced in manufacturing a “new car” for me; - the one I have just keeps on going, and what’s more, oil changes are done at half the frequency as it stays clean much longer.
How does the government ‘justify’ charging me even more for VED?

I think it is a lot of rubbish, both the new VED system and what some people say about older cars! Do any of you know what a Catalytic Converter does??? I’ll educate you, it converts Carbon Monoxide and other gases (small box, no room for a full science lesson!) into, guess what amongst other things? CARBON DIOXIDE!!! Good old CO2 which everyone keeps banging on about. Catalysts have been fitted every car registered since 1993 in the UK by law. So what on earth are people talking about when they say a 3 Litre Capri emits half a tonne of CO2? They’re talking total rubbish! A Capri of that vintage has no catalyst, so therefore it is probably emitting LESS CO2 than a modern car of similar engine size and type, and the average owner of such a car will not only look after the car well and keep it MOT’d thus keeping emissions within the law, but they also tend to be used at weekends only, so keeping its usage down to a minimum. So instead of attacking people who choose to run older cars, try attacking the people who have to have a new car every year, the CO2 that releases with the manufacture of that new car, if you’re a truly green motorist, you keep your car on the road for as long as possible, not clog the roads and the air still further by putting another new car on the road, no matter what they claim about how super clean they are!

I’d love to see a comprehensive list of cars/their supposed levels of emission and the proposed new tax rate.I’ve only seen one for vehicles registered since 2001.

There is another aspect of this tax burden which highlights a discriminatory fact.
I drive a 2005 VW T5 van but its a van with rear seats. Now this VW T5 panel van, under Euro4 emissions testing, is taxed at £130 per year but if you have seats fitted making it a Kombi Multivan the government has classified it as a diesel car which then attracts a tax of £440 per year yet the mechanical specifications are identical, the emissions are identical it is an identical vehicle except for seating and of course the tax . . . now this is not going to save the planet it is just another condition of a confused and muddled thinking government and blatant discrimination.

Stop whinging all you people with big engined cars, just buy a smaller engined car?

VED is a tax on ownership. If the government are truly commited to a fair and equitable system then all they need to do is apply an additional levy to fuel duty tax.
This will mean that it is the more frequent car user/larger engined vehicle owner that pays more than the old age pensioner who only uses their car once or twice a week for shopping.
Additionally, the cost of administering the vehicle licence system is saved.
A system of displaying a valid insurance/mot disc could replace the current windscreen tax disc.

If the government is as truly commited to global warming as they would have us believe they would subsidise public transport.
All that bull about carbon footprints,then politcians and their entourage fly off to the olympic games. Give us a break it is “Don’t do as I do but do as I say”.
I think it is possible that the Labour Government have put their foot in it again. Could this be goodbye Gordon? If they do decide to elect a new leader please pick one that is a socialist. The last two have been more like Tories than Socialists and please remember the working man/woman because the next time we vote “WE WILL REMEMBER”.

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