Tax or insurance?

houseplant

Which one costs you more? The cost of my insurance came down below my motor tax last year and wondering is this the norm for most? It never really occurred to me before.

Hande hoche!

Insurance.

michellie

Tax

Tax is €380
Insurance €340

Sir Arthur Daley

Mine were only €5 euro apart €333 for tax and €338 for insurance.

phasers

my insurance is 3 times more expensive than my tax

lertsnim

About the same for me

Mint Sauce

Insurance. I dont imagine them being around the same for a while.

oldyouth

Car Tax €673 :mad:
Comp Insurance €240

mickdw

700 insurance
570 tax

first car. Insurance 2300 punts
Tax 600

Menas

My insurance is about half my tax. Pesky big car.

bulleyes

€1800 tax
€420 insurance

PirateShampoo

Tax.

540 to my 450 insurance.

galwayrush

:mad:Car Tax if 5x my Insurance,

Menas

bulleyes wrote: »

€1800 tax
€420 insurance

Are you an articulated truck driver?

Sir Arthur Daley

A hearse is only €102 tax, does one have to be a practising undertaker to have one?

akura

330 tax and around 600 insurance.

abff

My tax is about 3 times the cost of my insurance.

The Backwards Man

My car runs perfect without either.:)

V.W.L 11

€514 for tax €600 for insurance,due for renewal in april so hppefully it comes in cheaper than the tax

desbrook

The Backwards Man wrote: »

My car runs perfect without either.:)

Your car runs perfectly without either you'll find actually.

YbFocus

€1500 tax and €600 insurance.

Tax is 2.5 times more expensive!

Fr_Dougal

Tax.

bulleyes

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Are you an articulated truck driver?

My car has a big engine 4.2ltr. It,s a lot of fun to drive but its well paid for on a tax basis.

Sir Arthur Daley

Honda 50 i had was €46 tax and €200 insurance before i destroyed it.

V.W.L 11

bulleyes wrote: »

My car has a big engine 4.2ltr. It,s a lot of fun to drive but its well paid for on a tax basis.

A Jag???

YbFocus

Or an RS4 maybe... I'd like to imagine an rs4

Nemeses

Neither......

Tax 710
Insurance 470 (510 incl interest on paying it monthly).

_Kaiser_

Tax for sure... €422 every 3 months/€1688 per year. Insurance is about €600 for the year.

More annoying is the brochure I got in the post today inviting me to test drive the new A8. Tax on that is only €380 despite being the same engine size (3.0 TDI Quattro) as my older A6 and more powerful (260 v 225 BHP)

Ah well.. still brings a smile to my face every time I drive it

Missyelliot2

Tax (just paid, so it still hurts) was €514
Insurance was €390

As the roads here are falling apart with potholes, I resent every cent of that tax!

zenno

Tax is €404 over 4 payments

Insurance €476

So it's close.

The car is only worth €300

For Forks Sake

Tax €1080
Insurance €400ish.

Stupid tax.

zenno

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Tax €1080
Insurance €400ish.

Stupid tax.

:eek: That's phenomenal. What sort of car do you drive to pay that much Tax ? if you don't mind me asking. That's a hell of a lot.

Missyelliot2

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Tax €1080
Insurance €400ish.

Stupid tax.

What are you driving? Seriously, if you can....sell it! My insurance costs the same as you for a 1.6 engine, but your tax is over double........by any chance, are you batman?

yawhat!

860 insurance, 400 tax. I really need to get a full license. Two years on the provisional and havnt sat the test yet

zenno

yawhat! wrote: »

860 insurance, 400 tax. I really need to get a full license. Two years on the provisional and havnt sat the test yet

If you put in for the test and sit it, you will get a two year licence even if you fail it, better than having to renew your licence every year

Sir Arthur Daley

Beara Island has a very fair road tax structure.

Basil Fawlty

All that apparent in this thread is that people with average cars don't realise how much those of us who like cars are punished for liking certain cars.

1501cc - 1600cc €514 Vs 3001cc > €1809

How is that fair!

Moonbeam

710 Tax, think my insurance was 360.
Tax on the other car is 385 and my insurance was about 300.

So Tax is way worse then insurance for me.

bulleyes

V.W.L 11 wrote: »

A Jag???

Spot on. Its the XKR.

Basil Fawlty

My case in point, I dont have a Jaguar XJ sitting outside because Id have to pay €504 a quarter for a piece of paper. Its frustrating to have to pay that much to be able to use something you own.

V.W.L 11

Basil Fawlty wrote: »

My case in point, I dont have a Jaguar XJ sitting outside because Id have to pay €504 a quarter for a piece of paper. Its frustrating to have to pay that much to be able to use something you own.

Slightly off topic but its like people paying the property tax for houses they own,a bloody stealth tax,back to the topic itself,its a joke i agree but enda,big phil and the rest of the boyo's are only laughing at us while they clean up,we got away with increases in budget 2014 expect them to return in 2015

Shenshen

They're both around the same for me, some €350 each.
I think the insurance was slightly less than the tax last time round