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Road Tax, Road Spending

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  • #2
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    blindjustice wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0321/1224243201369.html



    So do we get to stop spending on road tax? :)
    If not why not? Will our road tax end up going to fund bankers?:mad:

    Chance would be a fine thing :)


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    That's why it's called a motor tax, not road tax.


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    blindjustice wrote: »
    So do we get to stop spending on road tax? :)
    What's road tax? (clue: there's no such thing)


  • #5
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Magnus wrote: »
    That's why it's called a motor tax, not road tax.

    I was just about to say the same... it's not called road tax any more!


  • #6
    but43r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭but43r


    Hahaha I'm definetly moving accross the border now... A joke, if you ask me...


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  • #7
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    but43r wrote: »
    Hahaha I'm definetly moving accross the border now... A joke, if you ask me...
    Why? You don't seriously think that they ringfence all the money collected from motor/road tax, or whatever they call it there, for building and maintaining roads, do you?


  • #8
    but43r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭but43r


    I know it's not for building and maintaining the roads but if you look at the Motor tax which is over €600 for my car at the moment (went up €52 in last year and probably going up again in july) and compare it to the state of roads... The government is going to screw motorists in every way they can.


  • #9
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    but43r wrote: »
    I know it's not for building and maintaining the roads but if you look at the Motor tax which is over €600 for my car at the moment (went up €52 in last year and probably going up again in july) and compare it to the state of roads... The government is going to screw motorists in every way they can.

    Huh? You might as well compare your motor tax with dole payments.


  • #10
    but43r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭but43r


    Is it motorists fault that the economy is in such state???


  • #11
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    but43r wrote: »
    look at the Motor tax which is over €600 for my car at the moment (went up €52 in last year and probably going up again in july)
    Emergency budget next month, get your Vaseline ready!
    but43r wrote: »
    Is it motorists fault that the economy is in such state???
    It's kinda everyone's fault to be honest.


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  • #12
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    steve06 wrote: »
    Emergency budget next month, get your Vaseline ready!
    QUOTE]

    Theres a tax on that to!!!


  • #13
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Motor tax is actually ring-fenced for local authority use, part of which is on roads. It accounts for the majority of government funding that comes into each local authority. It's probably just over €1bn nationally per annum. The government will have halted the road spending as it knows that it can't afford to continue paying the other portion of the local authority funding at the same rate.


  • #14
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    This is the problem with the way things are funded in Ireland, Central Govt controls everything, if you look at the way things are funded in France for instance a lot of the time the local area controls the roading and is also responsible for maintaining local roads.
    Here with an incompetent central govt the councils are shafted by being reliant on funding from central govt coffers.


  • #15
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    CJhaughey wrote: »
    This is the problem with the way things are funded in Ireland, Central Govt controls everything, if you look at the way things are funded in France for instance a lot of the time the local area controls the roading and is also responsible for maintaining local roads.
    Here with an incompetent central govt the councils are shafted by being reliant on funding from central govt coffers.
    Jaysus!
    CJHaughey telling us that a FF led government are incompetent - things can't get weirder :D


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