will there be any concession's for farmers who drive 4x4s in the new budget?

Answer 1

Dont you think farmers get enuf free handouts, i wish i was given the cash they were, for doing nowt sometimes. Farmers always complain of being poor yet always drive new cars etc, should have made it £800 a year for people who drive cars they have no need for and polute our air.

Answer 2

Hi Maxine, i hope there will be concessions it seems a very unjust tax to me, as far as i understand it though it is only going up on new cars bought after April so i guess if like me you are not wealthy we have a few years before it will affect us.I realise of course the environment needs to be protected and maybe this kind off tax is just when you think of the 4 litre v8 petrol cars that do about 11 miles to the gallon but I'm sure my very well maintained 2.5 diesel is less harmful than a lot of smaller badly running cars.I would like to see the government have the nerve to put the tax on fuel then the more you use the more you pay surely that is the fairest way.And why do the media insist on picking on 4x4s the fact that all four wheels are driven is not harming the environment at all its ridiculous any large engined car is just as much to blame but no one seems to mind all the Jags and BMW's etc on the road.

Answer 3

I don't think so. looks like you are in the same boat as other 4x4 owners. it's not only 4x4s.... large engined sports cars are in this boat too. What this party of envy and greed seem to think is that if a person has enough money to buy a sports car then they are in a position to pay high road tax. It's just another tax on the rich who work hard to earn their money and chose to run nice cars. It's nothing to do with carbon dioxide and global warming because man made carbon emission account for only a tiny fraction of the whole. Again this is just another tax on the motorist...... the sitting ducks of society.

Answer 4

Very doubtful, my reasoning is that the fox hunting yahoos would jump on the bandwagon by declaring themselves farmers even if they only have a third of an acre of land. The farmers will just have to put on the tax return. Until the prats who unnecessarily drive these vehicles in the major cities and towns to take little darling to school stop the real users of 4x4s will always be at a disadvantage. Of course a combination of higher road tax and a much higher rate of congestion charge may persuade the idiots to stop buying these dangerous and over-sized vehicles.

Answer 5

In the vast majority of cases 4X4's are not NECESSITIES in the Countryside. If they were, they would be a lot dirtier than most of them ever are. If someone needed a suitable off road vehicle they would have a Land Rover. The daft sized BMW's 4x4s etc that we see on our roads now wouldn't stand a chance if made to do some real work.

Answer 6

No doubt of it. In the same way that farmers pay no fuel tax on diesel either.

Hey! We're now paying farmer not to grow things. It's called 'set aside'.

Answer 7

If there isn't there should be, for farmers and anyone who works in the country a 4x4 is not a luxury it is a neccesity, you try getting across a muddy field in anything else !!! You'll still be there a week later !!

Answer 8

You jest! the urban mafia that is new labour do not recognise the existance of the country side. Doubling the tax on 4x4's is another example of the politics of envy promoted by hypocrites.

Answer 9

I doubt it - he doesn't give concessions just because they are a necessity for some people.

Answer 10

Vehicles not used on the road do not pay road fund tax.