Buy a green car
1) Switch to a low-emission car
From next April, the road tax-bands will change so that drivers with low-emission cars will pay less tax than those with gas-guzzlers. If your car emits up to 150g of carbon dioxide per kilometre, you can celebrate because your vehicle excise duty (VED) will either come down or stay flat.
However, there will be a new top band for cars that emit more than 255g of carbon dioxide per kilometre, and drivers of these cars will be hit hard with a road tax payment of £440.
In addition, there will be a new rate for the first year of owning a car from 1 April 2010, with the worst gas guzzlers seeing their road tax leap to £950 in the first year. For the least polluting new cars, the first year rate will be zero.
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