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Petrol 08 on

  • 07-02-2015 4:10pm
    #1
    Roycropper63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭


    With a focus 1.4 costing 570 per year to tax are these petrol cars going to be hard to sell? Or will there always be a market for petrol?


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  • #2
    Brasso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭Brasso


    Roycropper63 wrote: »
    With a focus 1.4 costing 570 per year to tax are these petrol cars going to be hard to sell? Or will there always be a market for petrol?

    There will always be a market if the price is right, which would be lower than the diesel equivalent in the case of your standard family car.


  • #3
    Roycropper63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Roycropper63


    Guess so, but nearly a grand over 3 years is a lot of maney to pay on tax alone imo,

    Guess there will always be a market for petrol, probably myself included,


  • #4
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,127 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    on the cc system they were E385. Secondly a lot of people will probably siply assume 08 on is cheaper to tax, which is good for you if selling, secondly, realistically what would they be saving by buying another car if they are hell bent on the motor tax, E300 at a push...

    Funny how you can tax a 3L petrol 3 series from 08 and on for that price i.e. E570...


  • #5
    Roycropper63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Roycropper63


    That's amazing, I see some 1.6 petrol sot sure what models were 750 a year or am I getting confused?


  • #6
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    All 1.4 litre cars that are registered on the old engine size tax system will cost €385 a year. However cars that are registered on the newer emissions based tax system (generally from 2008 onwards) will be based on the car's C02 rating. In the example of a 1.4 litre Focus then it will be €570 on the newer system. The lower the emissions, the lower the tax. Cars first registered between 1st Jan 2008 and 30 June 2008 had the option of whichever was cheaper. Cars first registered from 1st July 2008 onwards were automatically registered on the newer emissions system. Those cars like the 1.4 Focus and 1.6 Avensis had high emissions hence had higher tax.

    You can enter the car's reg here and it will tell you the tax rate:
    https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/menu.do?page=motortaxinforeg


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  • #7
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,695 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I'd love to see the Gov lower the tax on some of the higher rated cars (like my FRV which is €630 I think), and increase the ones at the lower end a bit (and I say this also as the owner of a €190 car).

    I think with so many people buying lower rate cars since 2008, a balancing out of the system would allow some of us to go for bigger engines cars.


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