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Post by bluedreamer on Sept 21, 2015 18:56:51 GMT
This is my husband's tax disc collection for his SD, he bought it in 1994. Note the gap when it changed from May to August - this was when the bike was stolen outside my flat: it was later recovered and we were lucky to get it back!  |
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Post by GordyBrock on Sept 24, 2015 21:14:23 GMT
unique collection there mate, but can't help but notice the tax jumped to 40 quid just for 08-02...what's the reason for that?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 10:14:57 GMT
Well spotted....is the 5/00 also displaying 40 nicker?
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Post by GordyBrock on Sept 25, 2015 15:31:09 GMT
Well spotted also...It certainly is. Anybody got an explanation?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 16:57:53 GMT
I don't have for the life of me.......a 250 Super Dream doesn't even cost that now to tax does it?
What's the current rate around £35 ?
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Post by GordyBrock on Sept 25, 2015 23:45:59 GMT
Currently £38 for the 250 or 400...so where do the 40 quid discs come from? it's a mystery.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 0:01:34 GMT
BD......please enlighten us......hopefully you can claim something back off the barstewards......but my gut is that there is an reasonable explanation for this.
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Post by bluedreamer on Sept 27, 2015 23:48:07 GMT
Just checking the other items in our little collection, bike tax went up in 01 and 02, it was £60 and £65 for the CB 500 then, for 03 it went back down again, I have no idea why... Maybe emissions or something like that??? Have you all started superdreaming recently or are you all on SORN?
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Post by GordyBrock on Sept 28, 2015 19:16:29 GMT
Mystery Solved! Just pulled this from The House Of Commons Library, looks like the then Labour government reformed the road tax system for motorcycles, the idea was to encourage more bikes and less car usage. It had the effect of actually reducing the cost of road tax for many bikes, so a 250cc bike dropped a tenner to £30 and a 400cc dropped by £35! Does anybody remember this momentous event?
"The Government’s motorcycling strategy gave an overview of how the Vehicle Excise Duty system had changed. In effect, the previous system of VED for motorcycles had three bands based on
engine capacity; this was reorganised into four bands from May 2002.
The strategy stated that:
This new structure recognised the changes in the structure of the motorcycle fleet, and the benefits of motorcycles compared with
cars – especially for commuting. It also represented a reduction in VED for all motorcycles over 150cc, or approximately 630,000
(66%) out of a total fleet of 955,000 at the time it was introduced. The owners of some machines, i.e. those between
251-400cc, saw their VED reduce by £35 a year – nearly 54%.82"
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