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bandaid

Your motorhome is not taxed as a car. It is taxed as a Motorhome and is in a totally different class from a car. In fact the bigger the motorhome the cheaper the tax.

woo hoo. so, if they include the weight, as well as the length.

The government will pay me for a change. Idea

slightly off subject, I've just been fined by HMRC for being late with the tax return, due to their internet site being all wobbly. In the same lette they told me I'd overpaid them by just over a grand. Confused

richard863

I don't quite understand how it happened. This year my MHs (which is classified as a Private HGV) road tax went down to £165 for the year, thats cheaper than last year, in fact it is now cheaper than my car. Shush Rolling Eyes

So what makes the MH a Phgv or P light goods is it the weight being over 3.5Ton? Smile

bandaid

Maybe, and this is conjecture not fact, its 'cos most M/H's are based on commercial vehicles. Mind you I dont know if that applies to A classes.

I know my Rv is based on a chevrolet workhorse chassis ( which i would be proud of, if I knew what one was...workhorse, I know what a chassis is), of course the truck falls well over the 3500 kg limit.

as I may have pointed out once or twice, somebody who knows will pop up swiftly

Chrisdy

I'm afriad owners of ordinary cars are being clobbered, not because it has the slightest effect on Global Warming, but just because this appalling Govt never miss a bandwagon as it's passing. I own a large US pickup truck with a 5.4l V8 petrol engine. Because it's classed as a commercial vehicle I pay just £165 annual road tax. Likewise my US RV (32' coach) with its 6.8l petrol engine was also just £165 (LGV). Do not even try to work out the logic, because there isn't any. The Govt do not want to push up the cost of goods (that's inflation..!!) so commercial vehs (or derivatives) are relatively immune from road tax increases at present (although fuel costs are making up for that of course!!), but increasing the tax on private cars doesn't push up the cost of anything (except on your pocket) so that's OK. The sooner this bunch of incompetents is booted out the better, although none of the alternatives is that much better, because very few of them are prepared to turn off the cash cow that is the UK motorist.

annetony

If you have 3 children which seems the norm these days, you need a bigger car, try fitting a baby seat and 2 boosters in the back of a polo Shocked

no chance

so its the family that suffer again, the ones that probably cant afford the increase in the tax on their cars and they cant sell because they lose too much on them,

petrol will be going up again as everyone changes to a small car with more miles per gallon, so less petrol will be sold, vicious circle springs to mind Sad

Anne

Zebedee

For what it's worth, in New Zealand they had, and probably still have a much fairer policy that was applied across the board to all manner of "taxable" situations.

"User pays".

The motoring scene was cheap road tax for all, but more tax on fuel so the gas guzzlers paid by the gallon and the little motors were let off comparatively lightly.

It was seen to be much fairer, and the user had the option to take the kids to school in a huge 4 X 4 if they wanted to, but couldn't then whinge about the cost of running the vehicle.

Pity our government doesn't copy some of the good practices for a change.

maddie

Totaly agree in prinipal, (say 5% on petrol)but then every time the petrol goes up so does the larger slice of tax if you follow my logic
terry

bandaid

It was a while ago, mind, but it was calculated that to recover the revenue from VEL's sold plus the lost revenue from non payers, it would only take 1penny per litre increase in petrol prices.
I'm not honestly sure if the cost savings of not having the infrastructure of road fund licence collection were included in the equasion, but, whenever a " more focussed and leaner " department is spouted on about, the job losses arent, theyre more of a sideways move for most.

safariboy

Can anyone tell me what the tax rates will be on my motorhome. It is 3500kg and taxed as Priveat/lightgoods.
It is a 2287cc engine and does not have a CO2 rating?

Thanks.

Confused
Safariboy

maddie

Hi safariboy,GerryD got it right in his post I got confussed with car mot test Embarassed

& m/homes
terry