Ireland's Rip Off Motor Tax Rates!

[fuque]

anyone got the stomach for starting a "facebook,twitter type" campaign? AA etc arent worth a wink

[dizillusioned]

Hey Fuque, that's actually a really good idea. There are a lot of us out there that have to drive to work and put up high mileage. It would certainly be worth us banding together to get our message across. Sign me up.

Maybe we could appoint Conor Faughner as spokesman?

[Plebian]

Then we are told that most countries have a property tax so we should have one, they don't pay our road tax rates though do they. The same with buying a car, so much tax is loaded onto the price of a new car instead of taxing income. This means that you are borrowing more from the banks to pay for the car than you should have to. Now you have to pay interest on the loan to pay the tax, the Govt gets their share the banks get their interest and you get screwed twice.

[ShoutingIsLeadership]

Maybe we could appoint Conor Faughner as spokesman?

Is Conor Faughnan not available?

[NorthKildare]

Hardly worthy of a new thread. Motor related taxes have bene high in this country for years, nothing has changed.

The way things have gone Harmonica, it's time we did something about it. It's getting to be really expensive to drive a car in Ireland these days.

Soon the choice will be: Drive to work or screw it and sign on the dole. No proper public transport outside the greater Dublin area and therefore a lot of us simply have to have a car for our jobs.

[dizillusioned]

Is Conor Faughnan not available?

Isn't he always... but how effective?

['orebel]

Don't worry, they'll soon be using this inequity as a basis for raising the lower rate to match the higher rate

Nothing surer, in fact, they've started already by raising the tax on smaller vehicles.

[fuque]

Hey Fuque, that's actually a really good idea. There are a lot of us out there that have to drive to work and put up high mileage. It would certainly be worth us banding together to get our message across. Sign me up.

its the same old same old, if we got people to unite. I mean seriously we are being buggered.

car tax.... astronomically high
vrt...........illegal !!
fuel..........unsure. approx 70%!!!!tax
insurance...another ripoff
tolls.........very high (and rise with budgets!! i mean ffs)
parking.....
rip off speed cameras
etc etc

[Aindriu]

Just checked the Northern Ireland rates for the X5. 145GKM = £130 per year!!!

[damus]

It's no wonder people register them in the north at friends and relatives addresses! It's worth having one yellow and one white plate to save so much

I know one person who has taxed and insured their vehicle up north using their parents address for years......