Why should i pay £400 a year for car tax just because i drive a 4X4?

Question

surely the fact that i spend so much on fuel and on my vehicle gives me more right to be on the road than those working class people that own bycicles and mini cars

Answer 1

absolutely, you should drive what the h**l you like. This tax on 4x4s is a joke, well it wont stop me driving mine, and my big 5.7ltr v8 which by the way is tax exempt as its a classic (lol one nil to me), so the government  and the rest of you who wanna drive your little match boxes can shove it up your ****. I'll drive whatever i like.

Funny how its all the people who drive 4x4s fault that were running out of petrol, don't think you can blame that old chestnut on us, the amount of 4x4s on the road compared to your noddy cars is very small. so look for another excuse

Answer 2

The bigger the car then the bigger the engine the more carbon that can be deposited....

Unless its a new engine which should be designed to not give out bad emissions?

Hope it helps

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M

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Answer 3

You need to pay that money to discourage you from driving such a gas guzzling car that is very bad for the environment. What is the difference between having a 4x4 truck as apposed to a smaller toyota truck, which you pay less for, that is better for the environment?

Answer 4

4x4s have been proven to be more damaging to road surfaces (heavier), produce vastly more CO2 and score  poorly in Eurocap pedestrian safety tests. On the tax front, it is quite fair.

It is just unfortunate that you will come under attack from green campaigners when plenty of other cars get clean away with similar emissions and consumption - ie. family estates and luxury sedans.

Answer 5

becouse you when you are burning up fuel with a couldnt care less why should i bother attitude, you are burning the fuel that that should be used for my grandchildren  in the future. you burn it now, its gone tommorow.... if you buy one cos you live on a farm, dont you have tractors for driving in feilds, cars are for roads.

Answer 6

As an owner of a Jeep I find it shocking that gvmts are starting to enact these taxes on a minority.

It's like 1920 Germany all over again.  Now car owners are the group that is targeted to be the focus of hate.  

I guess you should consider yourself lucky that you don't have to wear a yellow star on your shirt - well at least not yet.....

Answer 7

Dearest chelsea tractor driver, the polluter pays principle (look it up).  You do not own the road, the Earth, or "those working class people" that have to breath in your fumes.

Answer 8

its so wrong that people with 4x4 should pay 400 on de road tax. Should be at least 2000 pounds. I find drivers with 4x4 think there king of the roads. walk and be a man or whatever.

Answer 9

The bigger the car, the smaller the p#nis !!!!!!!

Answer 10

Yeah I agree, it`s disgraceful.

You buy a 4X4 because you need it, living on a farm and all, and the government have the cheek to charge you all that tax.

I would agree with them if you were one of those poser mums who insist on buying a 4X4 on their husbands hard earned, just to compete with other mums on the school run and who never go off-road. They are total idiots, don`t you agree?

Answer 11

Because of cars like yours, petrol is becoming a rare product. The cost of all cars is going up to discourage their use. The more juicy they are, the more tax you pay.

Answer 12

There is absolutely no good reason for this.

Answer 13

Global warming is designed to keep people in fear in order to take their money and control them.  In all fairness, they should be taxing the fuel, not the vehicle.  That way everyone using the fuel will be charged accordingly.

Don't you just love all of the responses that say you shouldn't be driving it????  Argh!!!!  People are so ignorant!!!

Answer 14

Agreed. Tired of all the idiots who think the world should be a welfare state and the rich can't do anything! Except pay more taxes

Answer 15

In my opinion tax should be paid only once.  As it is we all pay income tax and then pay additional sales-tax/ VAT on what we purchase with the already taxed income.

This is questionable, but difficult to avoid.  

However - continuing to tax without income or additional purchases is genuinely outrageous.  New gas guzzlers could have higher VAT.  By all means tax the fuel at purchase and by all means make the VAT prohibitive if you want a disincentive - but have the decency to make it clear and transparent up front and, well - hey, caveat emptor!

...The reason behind it, of course, is to discourage the unnecessary use of large offensive gas-guzzlers, because they pollute more, increase carbon emissions and use excessive amounts of increasingly rare fossil fuels to run.

However - continual taxes on property that has already been taxed at purchase, and paid for with monies taxed at earning is, utterly unjustifiable.  

You're correct that you pay more in fuel tax, and if they wanted more cash out of you they should have charged you when you bought it.

Roads are used by all - even if you don't drive you need the road for the ambulance that takes you to the hospital, the truck that delivers the groceries you buy to the shop, and the pavement you walk on to get to the pub.  

Roads should therefore be paid for by income tax - of which much more than enough is already paid in Britain.  

Roads are infrastructure, they are not optional.

No-one should pay car tax except at purchase, because any recurring and variable property tax is wrong: full-stop.