Abolish road tax on Motorcycles.
Most Motorcycles cover a minimal annual mileage, have low emissions, they reduce congestion & do little to damage the roads, yet they still have to pay up to £81 tax whilst lots of cars pay Nil or only £30. This is clearly unfair and unreasonable.
Sign this petition 12,639 signatures
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/118875
Not sure how this will load up, if not just paste the link in your browser.........about time this was out there! :clap:
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just being smart! but you do realise tax is about pollution not roads... therefore with cars getting smaller engines, you have 2 hopes of getting this through - and 1 plays golf!
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It doesn't hurt to try though does it?
Best regards, Bob (Hope).
Be careful what you wish for!
Parity with cars to reduce your outgoings may be what you desire BUT car tax is based on emissions and bikes are not that great. Also as more car manufacturers produce more NIL rated cars it was not going to be long before the government realise that they are losing money. So from 2017 all new cars get a punitive first year tax rate based on emissions and then all cars (except NIL ones ... at the moment) get a flat rate of £140 a year. Do we want parity with that?!
Much better would be tax on fuel that is ring fenced for use on roads/infrastructure. That way heavy users pay more. Ride a classic once a year, you pay little. Simples!
Petitions like this crop up regularly. The government responds that there are published/tested figures for bikes and they are not going to change. Best not rock the boat.
Off soap box now :smiley:
Good point.
Quote from: STX1300man on January 21, 2016, 11:40:01 PM
Be careful what you wish for!
Parity with cars to reduce your outgoings may be what you desire BUT car tax is based on emissions and bikes are not that great. Also as more car manufacturers produce more NIL rated cars it was not going to be long before the government realise that they are losing money. So from 2017 all new cars get a punitive first year tax rate based on emissions and then all cars (except NIL ones ... at the moment) get a flat rate of £140 a year. Do we want parity with that?!
Much better would be tax on fuel that is ring fenced for use on roads/infrastructure. That way heavy users pay more. Ride a classic once a year, you pay little. Simples!
:-)
Petitions like this crop up regularly. The government responds that there are published/tested figures for bikes and they are not going to change. Best not rock the boat.
Off soap box now :smiley:
i think that the current rate of VED on bikes is completely fair and just and im happy to continue to pay it . Revenue raised does not go directly into a road construction/maintenance pool. All monies go into the general tax purse and pay for all the services we enjoy .
You jest surely.
:agree:.........................but what if?
Ok petition now has 14,685 signatures, thats 2000 more than a few days ago, and we did our bit as far as I'm concerned! :clap:
And read the petition, is this asking for parity with car scheme and emissions?................NO! :no:
The object is to judge the number of folk who feel it worth putting their name against such a cause, the numbers that have show the interest.
Issue- those in Government think they are elected to "POWER" :censored: The state of the country reflects that!
My vote went to a candidate who hopefully was elected to "SERVE", so let's hope they take notice.
If you decide not to sign, your opinion, and freedom of speech allows you to say that! But if by chance some miracle happened and and M/C's became tax free would you thank those who voted for it..............hmmmmmmmm :undecided:
Think my horse is a tad bigger than a soap box, better get off before I fall!
Thanks to all that signed up, nothing ventured eh!
Hope it's a good weekend for all!
I have signed this petition, but at the same time, just like Viper I do not begrudge paying the annual duty. I have a choice, if I don't want to pay it, I could always sell the bike.
Do we moan about paying our car tax....no, because we know that we have to pay it to keep legal and keep our cars on the road. Same applies to the bikes.
That's about 1.1 million quid, roughly the same amount of bikes that attend the ride to the wall in a good year.
Then of course there's perhaps 3 times that amount, that don't attend.
Would you write off 4 million + from your income ?
I wish the petition the best of luck and hope something good comes out of it, if it gave a concession, alas they would only claw it back elsewhere, which would perhaps make some other people ( even yourself ) worse off over a yearly period.
This is what happened last time. Governement response 2/3rds of the way down the page (though it's worth reading it all).
I doubt the response will be much different this time (despite the subtle difference of abolition vs parity).
http://www.righttoride.co.uk/2014/03/06/ved-in-line-again/
Quote from: STX1300man on January 23, 2016, 01:23:51 AM
This is what happened last time. Governement response 2/3rds of the way down the page (though it's NOT worth reading it all).
I doubt the response will be much different this time (despite the subtle difference of abolition vs parity).
http://www.righttoride.co.uk/2014/03/06/ved-in-line-again/
Am I right in assuming that the word "not" was missing from your post :smiley:
Bikes are to part of the stricter emissions regulations in the forthcoming years and so there may well be some changes to motorcycle VED . ? just a thought :smiley: