Gordon Brown has consistently labelled his increasingly extraordinary taxes on cars as green taxes. All designed to convert citizens to greener modes of transport and/or, lower CO2 emitting vehicles.
He knows, like we do, that most of us have no choice but to simply pay up because, there are no realistic alternatives to car travel for the modern family except perhaps in urban London.
His latest wheeze is to further increase the annual vehicle excise duty (VED).
If you own a car which emits 161-165 grams of carbon per km VED will go up from £145 to £175, an increase of more than 20%.
If you own a car with emissions of 201-225 grams, VED will go up from £210 to £300, an increase of more than 40% more.
If your car emits out more than 255 grams, the rise will be 10%, from £400 to £440.
The government have justified these whopping increases as a “green” tax, on the assumption it will persuade us to buy greener cars.
But, as we now know with this government, what they say & what they think are often opposites. The government’s own figures say that, these tax changes will result in UK vehicle emissions of carbon falling by just one seventh of one percent….a figure so small it’s impossible to measure.
The more interesting statistic is that the government forecast a whopping 130% increase in car tax revenue from this change
So now we know. This is all just about filling Gordon’s boots for an election giveaway later in 2009 and not saving the planet!
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