25 year road tax exempt rules

Post by **camper** » 18 Mar 2006, 18:32

Slightly off beat but there must owners that have t25s over twenty five years or approching.I saw on ebay and its not the first i have seen this a seller discribing that the vehicle may be road fund licence exempt.I thought the 25 year rules on the road fund licence had changed.My devon t25 was registered in 1981 .Does this make my vehicle road fund licence exempt.

Post by **Louey** » 18 Mar 2006, 18:45

the 25 yr rule went out yrs ago, tax exempt is only valid on vehicles BUILT before 1-1-1973

sorry

Post by **camper** » 18 Mar 2006, 19:05

Yes i thought the 25 year rule went out years ago.I saw a t25 on fleabay today the discription said it will be tax exempt soon.

Post by **DiscoDave** » 19 Mar 2006, 16:02

it did go out ages oga and was only in for a while anyway! the tax peeps didn't realise how many of these vehicles were on the road and how much it would loose them on tax so it was pulled!!

Post by **excalibur** » 19 Mar 2006, 21:59

It was brought in by the Tories.......it was pulled in the first liebour budget in 97

Post by **Cruz** » 19 Mar 2006, 22:08

Bloody Phoney Blair

Post by **Louey** » 19 Mar 2006, 22:23

excalibur wrote:It was brought in by the Tories.......it was pulled in the first liebour budget in 97

politics is a banned subject on here

, but I'm sure any government would have pulled it sooner or later. Its like the lower duty not being put on Veg Oil, governments over the last few decades have wiped out any money the country has and we have a pension scheme that has no pot - plus people like us (ordinary folk) want more public spending (OK, probably spent better than it has been) and better welfare etc.....

I like the phrase liebour - should it be lieblair??

Post by **Horza** » 20 Mar 2006, 09:54

I thought someone said the IOM still had a rolling 25 year rule?

If by some happenstance we actually had a government that cared about, well about anything other than pleasing their massivly rich corporate sponsors it would still be a tricky issue.

Environmentaly 25 year old vehicles tend to be more poluting day to day, they need more maintenance than a new vehicle to have a carbon cost there also but all that is offset by the huge cost of producing a new vehicle.

Post by **Hacksawbob** » 20 Mar 2006, 11:13

It'd be interesting to see what the number actually add up to, 15 year old van total CO2 produced (inc its build) and new vehicle over its expected life span (say 10 years

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Post by **Horza** » 20 Mar 2006, 12:05

I don't have access to those figures and as some of them could be considered to be comercially sensitive (which means "we don't want you to know that!) I doubt anyone has them all.

It is almost always more desireable to reuse something then it is to recycle and remanufacture. Breaking up a car for recycling is a very very expensive process. Manufacturing a new car is similar (which is why it is not cost effective to do it here anymore). Scavanging parts and keeping things running however is much much cheaper in a Carbon Footprint Context.

Post by **excalibur** » 20 Mar 2006, 19:22

On the subject of older vehicles causing more polution, a vehicle causes more greenhouse gasses during in manufacturing than during the running of it during its lifetime.......................so ecologicaly it is kinder to the enviroment to run an older vehicle than keep replacing with new

ands whats all this about politics being banned........are you serious?

Post by **Cruz** » 20 Mar 2006, 20:27

excalibur wrote: politics being banned........are you serious?

It's like the BBC then

Post by **toomanytoys** » 20 Mar 2006, 21:29

Yep IoM still has a rolling (well it did have last year) 25 year tax exemption, wish I kept my "Green monster".. would have been tax ex last year!!