Just signed this,but won't hold my breath for our politicians to do the decent thing ....
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| Historic VED Petition- sign up now? http://classiccamaroclub.mfatw.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2152 |
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| Author: | TopCat [Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
Do Please SIGN THE PETITION BELOW! The Plan is to Re-introduce a 30 year rolling vehicle excise duty exemption scheme, for classic vehicles. For too long now the tax exemption of classic cars has been frozen, to only apply to those manufactured before 1973. History did not simply stop in 1972. These are not cars which are driven everyday but rather on sunny weekends, to attend enthusiast shows etc.. It is vitally important that we help to preserve this important part of British motoring history. TAKES 30 SECONDS AND COULD SAVE LOADS OF POTENTIAL CLASSICS FROM THE SCRAP YARD! http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/183 USE A GENUINE EMAIL AS IT WILL NEED TO BE VERIFIED TO COUNT YOUR SIGNATURE. POST A REPLY WHEN YOUVE SIGNED IT TO KEEP THIS THREAD ALIVE! IF THE PETITION GETS 100K SIGNATURES IT HAS TO BE DISCUSSED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. GOT TO BE WORTH 30 SECONDS OF YOUR TIME! |
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| Author: | TopCat [Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
have added my signature (using UK address) now do be aware of the issues here since we have just come out of a similar debate here on IOM! We had a rolling 30 year exemption until the Govt proposed changing the tax on historic vehicles to £20 pa (from 0) guys here often have 10 or 20 historic motorcycles in semi open museum collections Huge outcry Govt "capitulated" - reduced HED to £10 pa - but crucially stopped it rolling forward and now we have pre dec 1986 as the cutoff. Are we better off??? caveat what you wish for! |
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| Author: | andycamaro [Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
does this mean that my road fund license should now be £10 pa? as its a 1980 car? |
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| Author: | TopCat [Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
In the IOM certainly! |
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| Author: | andycamaro [Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
darn not on the mainland then GGRRRRR but then the brit government wouldnt really reintroduce the rolling 30 year tax emption as they believe that there are too many cars on the road and would be a loss in revenue. but seeing as the road fund license monies collection has not been used on the roads for a number of years, then whats the difference |
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| Author: | firebird68 [Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
Just signed this,but won't hold my breath for our politicians to do the decent thing ....
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| Author: | March hare [Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
Ok, I´ve signed. +16000, a long way to go. |
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| Author: | 78 Camaro [Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
Hey guys, Sorry if i'm missing something here - but i'm trying to remember that recently this came up (October / November 2011) and a hugle hole got pointed out, in that we are shooting ourselves in the foot. By classing our cars as historic we are putting them into the category of "must be historically correct" - goodbye to pretty much all mods and extra saftey gear, limited mileage and if EU has it's way - applying to use our cars to make a single car journey. Am i mixing up things here or missing somehting? I don't want to sign yet until this is clear, as it feels like digging a grave for our cars. What do you guys think? Cheers, Ray |
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| Author: | TopCat [Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
Ray You may be right in your thinking- have heard something similar on other Bogs But on the other hand all these EU contraints might be heading our way irrespective of the HVED rate? |
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| Author: | 78 Camaro [Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Historic VED Petition- sign up now? |
1984 is all i'm saying  Thanks TC, i'll have a search for that info then and post back. At least we're not on Japanese regs where you have to scrap your car after 5 years 
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