Lizban
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HJ said:Evidently you are not a tax accountant, cars that are electric, or with very low CO2 emissions of 110 grams or less per kilometre (g/km) driven, qualify for a 100 per cent capital allowance until 31 March 2013. Also cars in VED Band A (CO2 Emission up to 100 g/km) pay £0 VED. Of course there are other taxes which apply to these vehicles, such as 15% VAT when you buy them. Strangely enough this is the same rate of VAT as you pay on a new bike, but you don't get a £2000 subsidy when you scrap a ten year old bike...
No.
Once upon a time, long, long, ago there was a thing called the road fund, well from 1910 up until 1936 when it was abolished by Winston Churchill (who was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time). For some strange reason many driver think that they still pay for the road fund, they don't roads are paid for out of general taxation. We all pay tax and the same proportion of that tax is used to pay for the roads. QED we all pay for the roads.
Now if you do know of a way in which riding a bike make you exempt from tax, my account would very much like to know about it....
Red diesel is a tax exemption for certain industries, such as agriculture, you can not legally drive a vehicle using red diesel on the roads.
HJ thanks for the long expansive reply it has some good history in it, sadly it misses the point, I fully understand VED - and if read earlier in the thread that's clear - but you are missing the key element in fuel duty.
So I repeat I don't know a way you can drive on a UK road without paying tax to do so. (Unless there is an electric car I'm unaware of that actually is practical)
So I further repeat the motorist saying you don't pay road tax have a point (they are simply not very precise with their language and we are trying wriggle an answer based on this lack of precession which I don’t think furthers the argument.