Stop increases in road tax for motorhomes.

Going to have to go some to get 100,000 signatures

According to the NCC there are 255,000 Motorhomes registered in the UK I don't know how accurate that figure is but can't be to far away. I agree it is going to be difficult. 

It takes a few seconds over 17000

I thought that petition had sunk, or is this a different one to David Klyne's post previously?

I am sure its the same but the nature of this forum is that threads get swallowed up never to be seen again!!! The petition is here https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/268246 It has had a reply from Government as it passed the 10000 signature mark. Whether people don't know about it but as JVB says it needs at least 100000 signatures for it to be discussed in Parliament. For that I suspect we would need to get a lot of our caravanning friends to sign as well. 

David

 

The thrust of these road tax increases appears to be to discourage us ( the vehicle buying public) from upgrading our more polluting older vehicles for cleaner newer ones ?? or have I got it wrong ? present M/H  £265 per annum , new M/H,  unknown but thousands over its first 5 years.

Present car £30 per annum. a new car..at least £140 and possibly also thousands over the first 5 years.  So, No new motorhome, and no new car electric or otherwise for the foreseeable future. 

Do they know what they are doing ??

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If you remove the word Motorhome & see it as a large engined polluting vehicle it is obvious that it’s just another cash cow that no Govt will lose the chance to raise tax revenue from🤷🏻‍♂️☹️

...but why exclude the larger, more polluting 'over 3.5t' vans from the new legislation...?

theres always been an anomaly regarding mh which fall into these two categories (PLGV and PHGV) where the larger, heavier vehicle has a smaller VED.

that gap looks set to widen considerably, what message does that send?

as long as they hold the appropriate license groups, wont folk just buy larger vans or just upplate their small, light chassis'd vans to 3650kg.

yes, there might be the odd implication....lower speed limits etc but, hey, what a saving...

or as Ray suggest, dont blooming bother...

Does this mean next year my 2015 Autotrail tribute will increase