Budget news on car tax exemption!!

This is a good move by them and it should make more restoration projects viable rather than turning them into donor cars.
 
Pleased to read about this.

We're only getting back some of what was pinched in 1997...and if the Treasury thinks the move is revenue-neutral, does that mean owners have been paying through the nose for the last 17 years? Without a doubt.

Still good news compared with where we were yesterday though! :)
 
It's excellent news, my Mk1 Escort missed the 2014 free tax break by 7 days, built 07/01/74 so free tax next year wheeeheee!
It should be back from paint next month, yeah right, as of last Saturday.....

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At least I'll have all winter to put it back together, fit some decent rims, bigger brakes and consider what to do with the pushrod motor. :wink:
 
Not been on the road for 9yrs, I've been waiting to do something with it, now seemed as good as any, as it will be TAX FREE next year :LOL:
SWMBO will kill me if she knew the costs, the work started at the back, rear panel repair, arches (inner/outer) new floors, sills (inner/outer) toe boards. Front clip and doors to do, the roof and most of the glass was OK. :shock:
It was my older sisters, then my nephew thrashed it, then parked up for about 10yrs, then my son resurrected it when he was 16, then it got parked up when he was doing his Mdes. I'm sick of tripping over it, I can't sell it due to family history, so it's going lower and "Sarf Lahndun" styleee. Anyway I've hijacked a thread again, sorry. :oops:


John
 
Good news for everyone in the classic car movement. But it annoys me how unfair VED still is. How is it fair that a pensioner who does 2k miles per year pays the same VED as a taxi driver who makes his living using the roads ? Why they continue to carry on with VED rather than scrap it and put the duty on fuel is beyond me.
 
Good news for me (my car was built in Jan 73, so qualifies from next month for free tax disc), but I fear that once Zanulabour win next year's election (which they will), that nice Mr Wallace will revoke the concession. I remember it all too well in 1998 when Tony B-lair and the nose-picking McRuin revoked the 25 year concession previously introduced by the Conservatives.

If Balls or Millichimp utter anything about 'hard working families' and then go on to revoke the concession then I would be happy to join the classic car fraternity in driving up to their houses and revving the nuts off my V8.

Rant over.
 
rp61973 said:
once Zanulabour win next year's election (which they will)
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Can people's memories really be so short? I fear so but certainly hope not.


Our Denovo car & the 2200TC will be eligible for the free tax next year then, which is nice. Gives me a tax-free fleet just in time to sell most of it.
Shame about the CPZ charges we have to pay though.
 
The way i'm reading it mine (first registered 1/5/74 , on an M plate ) should become exempt from next January 2015 . What do you have to do ? Do you have to register it as historic or does it just "happen" ? Would i have to prove date of anything ? I've had tax exempt motors before but not had to deal with the change over !
TRM , looking at the date of your 2200tc in your signature wont that have to wait to the following year ? Or have i read it all wrong :? :D
 
Yours will become exempt 40 years from when it was built, so when that happens you cash in the tax that's on it, and then you change the taxation class to Historic and away you go. So that will be around the start of May this year.
 
I thought I was doing the sensible thing in sending my application in this month, i.e. before April 1st to change my vehicle class to historic, so I could enjoy tax free motoring from April 1st (car is currently sorned).

Received a mind-numbingly verbose DVLA letter yesterday; the shortened version is that my car currently does not quality as the scheme does not commence until 1st April 2014. They said they would hold my application until April 1st and then process it, but if I wanted to use my car in the meantime I would have to tax it (difficult when they have my V5 and MOT cert). Why on earth they couldn't process the application with a rider that it would be valid only from 1st April.

I may get my historic tax disc by sometime later this year.....

Christ on a pogo stick. The simians are in charge in the DVLA.
 
That's not how I read it. My car is registered in June '74 and I don't think it will become exempt until April 1 2015, when all cars built before 1/1/75 become exempt. To claim exemption, you will have to fill in a form V10, showing the taxation class as "Historic" and send it, with your V5C, insurance and MoT to DVLA. If DVLA have your insurance and MoT you can still tax it on line.
 
harveyp6 said:
Yours will become exempt 40 years from when it was built, so when that happens you cash in the tax that's on it, and then you change the taxation class to Historic and away you go. So that will be around the start of May this year.
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suffolkpete said:
That's not how I read it. My car is registered in June '74 and I don't think it will become exempt until April 1 2015, when all cars built before 1/1/75 become exempt. To claim exemption, you will have to fill in a form V10, showing the taxation class as "Historic" and send it, with your V5C, insurance and MoT to DVLA. If DVLA have your insurance and MoT you can still tax it on line.
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I read it somewhere between the two , as in , what they said last year ( vehicles built before Jan 74 will become exempt on April 1st this year ) But from January 1st 2015 the rolling exemption that they announced yesterday will come into effect and then it will be as they become 40 years old .
Having said that i'd be more than happy for Harvey to be right , that way i get to claim a few months back ! :?
 
stina said:
TRM , looking at the date of your 2200tc in your signature wont that have to wait to the following year ? Or have i read it all wrong :? :D
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It was registered on 26 March, '75 so next year on that date will be forty years. Likewise with the Denovo car, but not until July 7th.

I haven't looked at the nuances of the rules yet.
 
The Rovering Member said:
I can only think that in HM Gov't eyes, it's a bird-in-the-hand situation.
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I was thinking the very same. It appears to be the usual sort of coercion tactics just before a general election. My guess is it has worked :wink: But I wonder what the price of free tax on our classics will be for 2015 onward :?:
 
Probably they will try and make historics,weekend use and limited to 1000m per year! :roll:
Theres no way they could ever police that though! :)
 
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