<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Caravans attract annual Road Fund Licence at last.
With Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, due to announce his budget statement later this month, plans to introduce a Road Fund Licence for caravaners have been unveiled to bring these road users in line with the majority of other vehicles on the road, who pay for the privilege of using the 'Queen’s highways.', our motoring correspondents have learned.
‘It has long been unfair that dormobiles have been subject to tax, and yet caravans have not. They damage and wear road surfaces as equally as other road users, and contribute further pollution to the atmosphere as the vehicles towing them use more fuel. It is that we wish now to redress.’, a Treasury spokesman said. 'We propose a Road Fund Licence for caravans levied at £295 for twelve months, or £155 for six months.'.
New buyers of the blight of ordinary motorists must pay a showroom tax of nearly £1,000 from 2010 after caravans were targeted in a further overhaul of the 'road tax regime'.
It is reported that new caravans may be hit with a first-year levy, of £150 in addition to the Road Fund Licence. However, the new scheme, in general, is expected to reduce British motorists' carbon dioxide emissions by more than 5%, as new sales fall.
The fiscal crackdown was announced following the recent shakeup of vehicle excise duty for cars that expands the regime by six bands to 13 from next year, creating a top M band for the highest polluting cars. Cars that emit more than 255g of carbon dioxide per kilometre, such as the Chrysler Jeep and the Porsche Boxster, will be charged an increased top rate. Those that emit less than 130g of carbon dioxide per kilometre, such as the Peugeot 207 and Fiat Panda, will pay a reduced standard rate from next year, ranging from nothing for a VW Polo BlueMotion to £90 for a Panda.
Potential buyers of large vehicles are already reacting to high pump prices and negative publicity from green campaigners, according to sales figures which show that purchases of cars in the G band fell 15% last year to 150,000. Sales of low emissions cars in bands A and B grew 17% and are expected to overtake band G vehicles this year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
"Since the introduction of a CO2-based road tax in 2001, there has been a clear trend towards lower-CO2 new cars," said AFD's chief executive, Eve Paulritt, yesterday. “However, even the most non pollutant of cars, will produce more CO2 when under load, such as pulling a caravan, or trailer.â€
Another New Stealth Tax
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We (as in the family) have two caravans, they havent moved in years as they live onsite, but im guessing all caravans will be hit with this and then keeping them will cost even more.
Their going to kill caravaning all together
We (as in the family) have two caravans, they havent moved in years as they live onsite, but im guessing all caravans will be hit with this and then keeping them will cost even more.
Their going to kill caravaning all together
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