Road Tax?

[David king of Mercia]

I don’t understand the comments about cyclists not paying road tax. I pay lots of road tax. Perhaps I should get a rebate for all the days my car stays in the garage when I commute to work and back. Can I get a tee-shirt with a comment like, ‘actually I do pay road tax’? I imagine lots of people who cycle to work and those who cycle for pleasure or club cyclists pay road tax!

 

[ianrauk]

People who spout the 'you don't pay road tax' argument are just ignorant peanuts.

 

[AndyRM]

http://ipayroadtax.com/shop/

Fill your boots.

 

[gaz]

You don't pay any road tax. Nobody pays it.

It's like saying 'I have right of way' everyone has right of way on the road, you're just using the term incorrectly!

 

[Hitchington]

"Road tax" is vehicle excise duty and the money from it goes to the treasury and is not ring fenced for road building. Money for road building and maintenance comes from the treasury and local authorities. Or something like that, but the upshot is that we ALL pay for the roads; car driver, bike riders and pedestrians (that’s if you pay tax).

 

[youngoldbloke]

There is no such tax as 'Road Tax'. I know everyone uses the expression, etc. etc. etc., but once you know it please use the correct term, 'Vehicle Excise Duty', or VED. The more it is used, heard, and becomes familiar, the better, and eventually, perhaps, it might become common usage.

 

[Melonfish]

road tax is as real as homophobia.
neither exist.
you don't pay road tax so you don't own the roads.
you're not homophobic isn't a real phobia so you're just being a d***
sort of thing really. (not aimed at you)

there was that one time i found my m8 pete in the bath... i did scream, but more at seeing him nekid. he didn't fit under a glass mind.

 

[Amanda P]

They're right, of course, there's no such thing in the sense that people usually mean it.
Even if there were, that disc on your windscreen is always going to be a tiny proportion of your motoring costs. Most people spend more than it costs on a couple of tanks of fuel, so why make such a big deal about it?

Most of the taxation on driving is just that: you pay it on the fuel you use. You don't pay it on the fuel you don't use. So every time you go to work by bike, your Mercian Highness, you are avoiding paying that tax.

 

[Hitchington]

Plus zero emission vehicles are excempt from road tax, er, I mean vehicle excise duty.

 

[HLaB]

I've owned three cars and not one of them has had Road Tax

 

[Melonfish]

I've owned three cars and not one of them has had Road Tax

my favourite adds are those that claim that X new car doesn't have to pay road tax. I'm like "well duh"

 

[Matthew_T]

The moment anyone says "Road tax" is when they lose the argument. It just shows ignorance and the true side of the person (i.e. they are telling you to get off the road).

Something also that I see a lot of car manufacturers saying "No Road Tax on new cars for a year". This makes the whole thing worse because they are misguiding people. Citroen has a habit of doing this.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I'm amazed the road tax brigade aren't out flagging other people's cars down telling them they don't pay enough road tax and have less rights than them.

This of course I live in fear of constantly having got rid of a £195 duty rated BMW and bought a £30 duty rated Suzuki Swift

 

[User269]

my favourite adds are those that claim that X new car doesn't have to pay road tax. I'm like "well duh"

Me too. I was just looking at some car leasing info the other day, and the T&Cs mentioned 'includes road tax', and even more hilarious, 'includes road fund license'.

Upkeep of the roads is funded by council tax. Motorways and some trunk roads are funded out of general taxation, of which car tax represents a tiny proportion. And the roads are for all of us to use..................yes, even BMX riders.

 

[Leodis]

What about electric bikes? They use fosil fuel to run