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Road tax groups

There are now a number of tax groups depending on amount of exhaust emission. Am I correct in assuming, that at MOT time, if a vehicle has emissions higher than the upper limit of it's tax group, it will fail the MOT test? - or will a higher tax band apply? I cannot recall seeing this clarified anywhere, but feel it must be somewhere. I was thinking, that keeping emissions low may become a problem when vehicles are a getting a few years/miles old, but perhaps not the case.

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4square
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Duncan Wood
4square gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Nope. The only figure that's relevant is the manufacturer's official CO2 figure for that model & spec of car, as set out when it was new.

Not all new cars even have those - some low volume ones do not, so the old breaks by engine size (and prices) apply.

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Adrian

tax groupings have no relevance to the mot test at all.

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Mrcheerful

Not quite. With imports it is date of first use.

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Conor

Conor gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Umm, yes. If they're EU imports, they'll almost certainly have that figure from when they were new. If they're not EU-spec, then they'd fall under the "low volume" bit...

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Adrian

Err, no. My wife's FTO comes under the "date of first use"

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Conor

Whereas pretty much every US import falls under the old breaks. The 7 litre Excursion costs the same to tax as my Rover, or less than a 1.6 automatic Focus.

Which is exactly as it should be. I'm still of the opinion that if anyone ever buys a car purely because of road tax then they should have to hand in their driving licence upon purchase. Cheapskates.

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Pete M

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