Emission based road tax

richieg

Back last december in the budget they mentioned that from 2008 road tax would be based on vehicle emissions, the higher the emissions the higher the tax.
Does anyone know any more about this?
When is it coming in , Jan '08?
Does anyone know how much of a change there will be up or down?
I wonder will there be much difference now between say a 2.0l petrol and 2.0 deisel?

Altreab

richieg wrote:

Back last december in the budget they mentioned that from 2008 road tax would be based on vehicle emissions, the higher the emissions the higher the tax.
Does anyone know any more about this?
When is it coming in , Jan '08?
Does anyone know how much of a change there will be up or down?
I wonder will there be much difference now between say a 2.0l petrol and 2.0 deisel?

Its been looked into at the moment and until the civil servants come back with a reply there is no way to know what the likely changes will be.
if you look at the differance between petrol and diesel then your talking 175g/km for a BMW 2 Lt Petrol ...versus 153 g/km for a 2lt Diesel. Depending where the "cut off" points will be for carbon levels will decide the amout to be paid. In the UK the differance for company car drivers was as much as £2500 per year in benifit in Kind. Guess what happened to diesel sales the following year
Much the same will happen here when CO2 carbon taxing happens. This will be a way to hit the Carbon emissions targets for Kyoto ...not t mention squeeze more money out of the Car driver.

P.S In the example above driving the BMW Diesel was actually a far better option as its a easier to drive "on the road" car than the 2Lt petrol .

JHMEG

Whoever is in charge is supposed to be in a consultation period at the moment. Changes are supposed to come in in 2008.

Have a look at the UK road tax system (not the BIK system).. several bands, with almost anything 2.0 litre or above in the top CO2 band. Though their road tax system hardly discourages anyone from driving bigger engined cars: The top band incurs less tax than a 1.6 here, iirc.

http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/

dil999

Theres a pdf somewhere on the revenue website, which is a draft/ consultation document regarding how to encompass emmisions into VRT calculations

Search for VRT on revenue.ie

edit: Here it is (Finance dept website)

http://www.finance.gov.ie/documents/publications/other/vrtconsultdoc06.pdf