UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  What’s an SUV though because the industry has a lot of cars they call SUVs and quite a lot and don’t look remotely like each other.

  I have an SUV from 2015 and the Volvo XC90 dwarfs it despite it apparently not been an SUV, so how does that work?

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• Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do it

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I doubt it’d raise that much, as there seems to be an assumption increasing the tax wouldn’t lead to a reduction in SUVs, and that everyone would just absorb the cost.

  However, I still say go ahead! Even if it only raises a quarter of that, that’s still money coming in, and it means fewer SUVs on our roads. That’s a win-win.

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• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  SUVs the jack of no trades and master of fewer. They’re such a strange concept, forgo the ease of a hatchback, the space of an estate, the performance of a sports car, the utility of a 4x4 and in return you get to kill more kids when you hit them.

  I’m clearly not the target market with my '05 Civic, that because I live fairly rural I put winter tires on. But, I don’t understand what I’m missing. The wealthier around me are all in them, the rest of us are in hatchbacks and estates.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    A lot of them are basically estates these days. The names have all become mixed up to the point of being effectively meaningless.

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• waz@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  More sloppy reporting from the guardian, at least proof read the work. Tax £66,610 on an 85,000 vehicle? 3 times as much as the cost in the uk of £3200? I think someone put another 0 on that, ABs they still managed to publish it.

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  • HermitBee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure what the mistake is? France charge a £50k premium, so £66k tax doesn’t sound unreasonable.

    It doesn’t say that that £66k is 3 times the cost, it says there are 13 countries which have a greater acquisition tax than 3x the UK rate. As far as I can see, it doesn’t mention the relative costs between the UK and France.

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    • waz@feddit.uk ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      If it’s mean to be a single digit multiple of the uk tax, at 3k, then it can’t be 66k

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think a small typo counts as sloppy reporting

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Grauniad making typos? Never!

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#References_i…

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