Is there any VAT over there? Are the emissions control regulations the same?
For once, I'm going to beat MB in and say that there is a genuinely different cost base - UK rent and salaries are higher, and taxation is a much more important element in the whole.
£18400 + VAT is £21620, which not far off what we pay. There are clear examples of price gouging, but this isn't one of them. Even the Accord price (£13k now) is fairly close to what they'll be once the market settles down and Honda dealers start discounting.
Factor in things like payroll taxes, rent, salaries and emissions controls and if anything, the UAE looks expensive - which is pretty much as you would expect it to be, as only a portion of cost savings are ever going to be passed on to customers.
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tax free means no taxes what so ever, no vat , no rates , no fuel duty etc etc
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Well then, it's not surprising that our prices are higher. If there were no tax to pay here either, they would be about the same if not less.
Of course, you could argue that taxes here are in general too high, but that's a whole other debate and wholly unrelated to motoring.
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> Of course, you could argue that taxes here are in general too high, but that's a whole other debate and wholly unrelated to motoring.
No it isn't!
£38 billion is extracted from us per annum in motoring related taxation.
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no vat and cars are supplied with cats
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