...Election......and motor tax.......

[galwaytt]

....sorry, but I posted this on boards.ie, and feel it needs to be aired everywhere........

thank god for copy&paste, eh ?

..back in advance of last budget, I made written submission to DoE, DoF, and DoT on the issue of motor tax, and it's various injustices, as well as a methods of making it fairer.

Naturally, it got ignored.

But I did cc it to my local Senator at the time, Ciarán Cannon, and it in turn got to Simon Coveney.
They made sympathetic noises - well, they would, wouldn't they ?

Anyhoo, imagine my surprise when Leo Varadkar on last night's VB show put it out that FG were putting VAT up to 23%. Did you see that on a poster near you, lately ?

So, I decided, to do a spot of reading, specifically, this: http://www.finegael2011.com/pdf/Less...ngerGrowth.pdf

And, lo and behold, there, on page 24, writ large as life, is said increase in VAT.

But, and here's the kicker: one line down, is the proposal to increase Motor Tax on CO2 rated cars, and all cc-based cars under 2000cc, by €50. For large (read: old) car owner's though, the increase on higher rated CO2 cars, and all cc-based cars over 2000cc by an extra €100 !!

So, welcome to 1666 p.a. for 3.0 and over et al.

And, another 2% VAT on petrol ?

FFS - are they really that ignorant........? This country is so completely fukced it's not funny.

[galwaytt]

...please feel free to copy&paste to all and sundry, btw.....

more, here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthre ... tor&page=5

[Navin]

Don't get me started on the state of this country!!! We'r taxed on a car when we buy it, we'r taxed when we put fuel in it, we must have road tax to have it on the road, we'r taxed when we buy parts for them, when we buy car insurance we must pay tax on that again!!!!! Talk about ripping us off!!!!!

At the moment their all promising that if they are put in to government that they will do this and that to help the people on lower income and bring this country out off this recession but they can't do that without money, and seeing as the banks has drained us of most of the money we had, we are pretty much screwed!!
The only way to get more money is for them to put up taxes, put up vat, cut back on spending in the health service, social welfare and education!!! Thats not the way forward, its the way backwards!!!!! It means less money for people to live on due to rising taxes, while the cost of everything will go up due to rising vat!

The banks our taking more and more off us again by putting up interest rates and scrapping fixed mortgages, even though its mainly down to them why this country is f****d in the first place!!! I know its not totaly down to them, we must take some blame too for taking out these big loans in the first place, even though they we'r pushed on us, but the banks knew that we would take whatever they offered us, so they could get their big bonuses at our expence!
Rant over!!! Sorry!!