Car tax set to increase... AGAIN!

[AtheneNoctua]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7484478.stm

I drive an Astra and I think -- feel free to correect me if I am wrong, that my tax is set to increase by some 48%. How can this be justified?

from article
"According to Conservative calculations, the Budget changes will move 1.2m of the most polluting band F cars registered between 2001 and March 2006 into the new bands L or M, upping their VED from £210 now to £430 or £455 in 2010.

A further 1.1m band F car drivers will move to band K, and face a hike from £210 now to £310 in 2010.

Cars affected include: the Citroen Picasso, Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Astra and Honda Accord, the Tories say."

end from article

Sometimes I think Gordon Brown knows this is Labour's final term and he just wants to wreak as much havoc as he can and go out with a bang.

I have an R reg car and it alreadu costs me £160 a year tax. Really CANNOT afford another hike (think I will escape this though). DH has to use the car to get across town to his meeting point to be picked up for work, busses do not run at 5:00 in the morning to enable him to get there.

This a tax in the name of masquerading-as-green hysteria.

Why don't we apply the same level of taxes to beef? Cow emissions

I bought a ford fusion diesel and one of the reasons why was the car tax is only £35 per year!!!!!

not to mention that all the world is not really convinced of the alleged relationship between my petrol consumption and global warming.

Here is but one example.