car tax and emmissions
 

New MOT rules this year the emmissions have to be lower than the sticker under the bonnet mine says 1.51 on the sticker but every MOT mine are lower than 1.19 and cars below 1.20 should be paying £30 a year tax so why do i pay over £200 is it because they go by the sticker when really it should be what your emmissions are on the MOT

The MOT test does not assess your emission figures under normal road use, merely on idle.

Idle ? they rev the nuts off them

You need to change your MOT tester :)

The road tax is assessed on pre-prescribed emissions for a particular model, not an individual vehicle.

Not really i would never change my MOT tester. but that's my point it should be by individual mines low so should ber low tax that's fair.

Can you imagine the cost of the admin to change to individual rates, then add to that the potential for appeals because it's been messed up. and the new question of how reliable an individual test centre is. Taxation in bands dependent on the manufacturers' stated design figures may not be individually fair but I'd say it seems more practical.

My emissions are the same every year so i think it's infair and going to call DVLA to see if i can do anything.

Also on hte sticker it says 1.51 but on the tax 177 so something is messed up

1.51 what exactly?

‘Cars below 1.2 should be paying £30....’ do you mean cars emitting less than 120g of CO2 per km paying £30 tax?

The emissions test measures hydrocarbon emissions (parts per million) and CO emissions. They don’t measure CO2 emissions.

But the engine isn't loaded, hence idle. I didn't say tickover.

Idle and tick over are one in the same :rolleyes: