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Originally Posted by Alex440
That was part of the argument against it. An incentive for people to stay in their old diesels longer, which is surely totally against what they are trying to achieve?
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The Budget treatment of diesel cars was politically-motivated, and that's not too surprising with a wafer-thin majority and 11 million odd diesel cars on UK roads.
It would take a very brave Chancellor to try and tax older diesel cars off the road - something that Corbyn and his merry band of populists would no doubt seize upon as a tax on the poor. I can picture the Daily Mirror featuring a nurse who is now unable to drive to the soup kitchen. They could have brought in a scrappage scheme for say 12+ year old petrol and diesel cars, but that would be expensive.
Hence the very modest change which applies to new diesels from April 2018 only.