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A collection of excellent, and largely sympathetic responses. Thank you.
The dealer did not increase his price to me, he honoured our agreement. If he had increased his price to me, which he had no intention of doing, I had a get out clause in the agreement and could have walked away.
The manufacturer increased list prices on 1st April, and DVLA deem me to have paid that increased price. Deem = fiction, sadly.
I agree it is a well known tax but did not realise it was applicable in this fashion. Indeed, there is no publicly available definition of list price - believe me, I have tried to find one Every motoring authority tells me List Price = Manufacturers recommended price plus factory fitted extras. Only on contacting DVLA does it emerge that Delivery Charges are included, and they make all the difference in this case. So to say it is a well known tax is only part of the story.
It is also noteworthy that in these elements of "List price" there is also substantial tax, so we have here a further case of a "tax on a tax".
My saving by paying the pre-increase list price does not cover it, sadly, but a kind thought.
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