Ah yes “🎵no car tax no local rates no vat”, er wait.
The start of the fiscal meltdown as this nonsense was no sooner in place than the big recession began. Tax car rapidly came back as a registration charge and a massive hike in exise duty on petrol and diesel but not the rates of course.
It can’t be brought in overnight, in fairness.
Grifters / Hustlers Die Hard ! !
Cars up to and including 16HP. Would a modern car even be able to move with a 16HP engine?
What kinda cars were these? a mark 1 fiesta started about 40 hp
See I fuckin’ told yee, we’re living away beyond our means…
Great to see they delivered.
Now, if only we could get them to remove Motor Tax!
That election is truly fascinating. A highly populist campagine that lead Fianna Fail to the largest landslde in irish history, however this lead to an ecomanic debt crisis that lead to Jack lynch resinging only two years after winning. Somehow the most successfull and least successfull politican in irish history
Tax horsepower was a thing for a while.
It was based on the size of the engine not the actual power.
Wasnt this because there was going to be an alternative tax built into fuel or something?
The election that broke the country and helped herald the awful times of the 1980s.
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I’m definitely voting no now.
Ah yes “🎵no car tax no local rates no vat”, er wait.
The start of the fiscal meltdown as this nonsense was no sooner in place than the big recession began. Tax car rapidly came back as a registration charge and a massive hike in exise duty on petrol and diesel but not the rates of course.
It can’t be brought in overnight, in fairness.
Grifters / Hustlers Die Hard ! !
Cars up to and including 16HP. Would a modern car even be able to move with a 16HP engine?
What kinda cars were these? a mark 1 fiesta started about 40 hp
See I fuckin’ told yee, we’re living away beyond our means…
Great to see they delivered.
Now, if only we could get them to remove Motor Tax!
That election is truly fascinating. A highly populist campagine that lead Fianna Fail to the largest landslde in irish history, however this lead to an ecomanic debt crisis that lead to Jack lynch resinging only two years after winning. Somehow the most successfull and least successfull politican in irish history
Tax horsepower was a thing for a while.
It was based on the size of the engine not the actual power.
Wasnt this because there was going to be an alternative tax built into fuel or something?
The election that broke the country and helped herald the awful times of the 1980s.
Fairly sure there are hairdryers more than 16hp.