UK: cock-up over tax-dick.

[AllFumbs]

Sorry, 'disc'. No I'm not - it was deliberate.

A 1st-Gen' CVT of my acquaintance, first registered in the UK well after 2001, came with a paid-for tax-disc. (£120, I think.) Hang on, that can't be right. I checked the log-book: they've got the CO2-emissions as 143gm/km. That's not right, either: it's 90gm/km, isn't it? But how to prove it?

I got in touch with Honda UK, to get a Certificate of Compliance. But the on-line form you print, complete and return to them states clearly that it's only for vehicles bound for the UK. Hmm: the car in question was a personal import.

Nevertheless, tax is being paid when it needn't be. How do we put this right?

AF.

[aisbell]

Let me know when you figure it out.

I imported my U.S. Insight to Sweden. Because Insights were never sold in Sweden, the Swedish Traffic Administration has no emissions information about my Insight. I was told that they would accept an E.U. Certificate of Compliance to determine emissions, but because my Insight isn't an E.U. model, I cannot get an E.U. Certificate of Compliance. I believe it was faxe who sent me a copy of the E.U. Certificate of Compliance for his Insight which was originally sold in Germany, but Sweden would not accept it because the Insight VIN encodes that mine is a U.S. rather than an E.U. model. Even though the U.S. has certified the CO2 emissions of my Insight at 80 g/km, Sweden won't accept U.S. emissions data.

Any car whose CO2 emissions are less than 100 g/km gets a registration fee discount. Sweden has classified my Insight as emitting something around 140 g/km, I believe based on the most similar model to mine sold in Sweden, a Honda Civic Hybrid. Therefore, Sweden won't grant me a registration fee discount

[retepsnikrep]

ASFAIK You pay a lot of money to get one emissions tested in the way manufacturers do. That's why I only have manual UK cars. Sad but I doubt anyone has the time or money to fix the problem. Unless you know otherwise?

[E27006]

It may be that your car is being taxed on the basis of engine capacity in the absence of any valid information for emissions