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I thought that Tax excemption was introduced in 1998 and was for vehicles over 25 years old hence 1973 but was then frozen and never rolled on. Or am I wrong?

Alan.
 

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Signed.
I thought that Tax excemption was introduced in 1998 and was for vehicles over 25 years old hence 1973 but was then frozen and never rolled on. Or am I wrong?

Alan.
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After the Tories introduced this scheme and then promptly lost the election, it was one of the first things overturned by the Labour Looney Party!!

I would be happy with two options on VED charges for older cars

1. Your car is a cherished, restricted mileage vehicle and also has 'classic restricted mileage' policy. Therefore lets say you do less than 4000 miles per year then you tick the box for zero VED disk. ITs still a 'green' option as the car is rarely used and if it is its usually high days and holidays.

2. Your car is over 30 years old but is still maintained as a only car/daily driver. Therefore you have regular insurance with no restrictions on mileage or use. Not very 'green' due to age, mpg and emmisions and the box ticked for regular VED charge.

Keeps all camps happy
 
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ORIGINAL: CarreraRSR
Your car is over 30 years old but is still maintained as a only car/daily driver. Therefore you have regular insurance with no restrictions on mileage or use. Not very 'green' due to age, mpg and emmisions and the box ticked for regular VED charge.
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CRSR, I see the logic in what you say but the statement above fails to take note of the fact that the pollution created in making the car (a huge proportion of the whole-life pollution of the vehicle) is spread over a much longer time, and larger mileage. Running a car to 200,000 miles over 20 or 30 years is a pretty low-pollution way of motoring, and should be reflected in the road tax paid.


Oli.
 
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Signed.
I thought that Tax excemption was introduced in 1998 and was for vehicles over 25 years old hence 1973 but was then frozen and never rolled on. Or am I wrong?
Alan.
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I seem to remember an e-petition on this when Gordon Brown was involved - the government answer at the time was something to the effect that because there were over 350,000 vehicles in this category, they weren't so rare and therefore they didn't see the need for exceptions.

ORIGINAL: CarreraRSR
After the Tories introduced this scheme and then promptly lost the election, it was one of the first things overturned by the Labour Looney Party!!
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I think we are only just starting to see the tip of the beaurocratic mountain created by the LLP on top of the already large number of government jobs.

Nobody asks the question - why do we need 4 bits of paper to drive a car? Licence, Tax disc, MOT and Insurance . . .
 
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Does anyone know if the major classic publications are aware of this petition? I'm sure if Classic cars monthly, practical classics etc ran this as a side note, it would help with the numbers of people signing up.
 
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