Glad I don’t live in the UK anymore...

whereskeith

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The original post refers to something that's happening in London not the UK,, I know anyone living outside the UK thinks London is the UK , I was just saying 200 miles away is near enough for me.
I grew up in Greater London, it is my home and birth city. My point of thinking is that once this takes a foothold you will see it it most cities...more tax is required.
 

Wack61

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I have no desire to live in a city either, London is the only city they could possibly get away with introducing this because at least public transport is available all of the time, everywhere else it shuts down at 11pm and if you want to get to work for 6am forget it

They tried bringing in a congestion charge in Manchester in 2008, it didn't go well, 79% against it

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/dec/12/congestioncharging-transport
 
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keith

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I started a thread under the Ghibli section titled 'Euro 6', related to just this point.
My car is Euro 6 - Ghibli Diesel with Add blue, but registered in July 15. If I had reg my car on Sept 1 no problem. But the same car registered on 31 July due to an admin error with Maserati had been marked down as Euro 5.
Now I'm trying to get paperwork from Maserati to confirm the fact that it is Euro 6 as they have confirmed.
As I said on the other thread, there will be plenty of drivers who won't check and will end up paying the charges.
Rip off Britain alive and well!!
 

Wanderer

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I started a thread under the Ghibli section titled 'Euro 6', related to just this point.
My car is Euro 6 - Ghibli Diesel with Add blue, but registered in July 15. If I had reg my car on Sept 1 no problem. But the same car registered on 31 July due to an admin error with Maserati had been marked down as Euro 5.
Now I'm trying to get paperwork from Maserati to confirm the fact that it is Euro 6 as they have confirmed.
As I said on the other thread, there will be plenty of drivers who won't check and will end up paying the charges.
Rip off Britain alive and well!!

I’ve lived in Denmark and Ireland recent years and there’s rip off!

Denmark taxes all imports at 180% and as it has no local car industry, that’s all of them.

Ireland, 1849 Euro road tax for the QP5, and tolls on all motorways. And insurance four time what I paid here.

And one Euro for plastic bag in Dunnes!
 

whereskeith

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I’ve lived in Denmark and Ireland recent years and there’s rip off!

Denmark taxes all imports at 180% and as it has no local car industry, that’s all of them.

Ireland, 1849 Euro road tax for the QP5, and tolls on all motorways. And insurance four time what I paid here.

And one Euro for plastic bag in Dunnes!

180%... that’s mental ...
 

Wanderer

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180%... that’s mental ...

Yeah, Ford Ka like 40k!! When I was there didn't apply to electric cars hence Teslas everywhere, had a P100D for a day, seriously fast but boring and cheap inside. Even saw a few Tesla S taxis!

Danish gov. caught on and are ramping up the tax on them now, was 20% when I left, still cheap but the intention was to increase it. Then again, all charging points inc. supercharging were free in DK. I watched a vid about this guy in US detailing his electricity cost charging his Model S and it wasn't cheap! It's not free efficient energy it's just shifting the solution elsewhere to rubbish countries glad of the income....
 

Wack61

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Diplomatic Immunity doesn't apply to the congestion charge but they must think they don't have to pay it, over £105m owed by foreign embassies, I bet they're not being hounded into suicide over unpaid debt
Highest unpaid congestion charge bills
US - £ 11,544,455

Japan - £ 7,629,370

Nigeria - £ 6,481,620

Russia - £ 5,603,320

India - £ 4,991,125

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41585423