NZ Rego cost

**sil3nt** · 28th July 2009, 20:16

80% of my weeks pay for 12 months rego. Gotta love minimum wage!

**Brian d marge** · 28th July 2009, 20:19

Originally Posted by Supertwin Don

I've just re-taxed my Guzzi for a year - it's cost me £66 - I earn about £450 take home per week - so that's about 15% of my weekly - when I get it MOT'd (read WOF) it costs me £38 per year (8.5%) - how does this compare with NZ?
Compulsory full insurance over here costs me about £160 per year - again how does that compare with NZ?

Please don't just start converting dollars to pounds - relate it to what sort of percentage of take home pay - that's a more realistic comparison.

I'm hoping to be back in NZ later this year, so I'm trying to work out what sort of salary I could live on

Not sure if anyone has actually answered you question, but heres how I looked at it
Your total running costs per year ( uk) were 66+38+160=264

264/12= 22/4 = 5.5 pound a week

5.5/450 =1.22% of your weekly

now say you earn the average wage in NZ 55 000???? ( a friend gets 700 take home as a computer jockey )

So 33?% tax 36 850 after tax roughly 767 a week after tax

321+700insurance+30wof =1051/12/4=$22 a week = 2.87%

nearly 2 and 1/3 times more expensive in NZ

Stephen

Stand to be corrected on the average take home and wof , and insurance prices

**Leyton** · 28th July 2009, 20:19

Originally Posted by sil3ntwar

80% of my weeks pay for 12 months rego. Gotta love minimum wage!

Yikes!

Coming on the LOR ride with the Uylisess this Sunday dude ?

**sil3nt** · 28th July 2009, 20:59

Originally Posted by Leyton

Yikes!

Coming on the LOR ride with the Uylisess this Sunday dude ?

I won't be riding anywhere anytime soon. Need to save a bit of cash.

**Leyton** · 28th July 2009, 21:09

Originally Posted by sil3ntwar

I won't be riding anywhere anytime soon. Need to save a bit of cash.

Poo's! All good due

**Leyton** · 28th July 2009, 21:11

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

Not sure if anyone has actually answered you question, but heres how I looked at it
Your total running costs per year ( uk) were 66+38+160=264

264/12= 22/4 = 5.5 pound a week

5.5/450 =1.22% of your weekly

now say you earn the average wage in NZ 55 000???? ( a friend gets 700 take home as a computer jockey )

So 33?% tax 36 850 after tax roughly 767 a week after tax

321+700insurance+30wof =1051/12/4=$22 a week = 2.87%

nearly 2 and 1/3 times more expensive in NZ

Stephen

Stand to be corrected on the average take home and wof , and insurance prices

Thats some serious crunching dude!!! Well done, and YIKES!! I might put aside $44 of my pay a fortnight to ride my bike, shit, never thought it cost that much!

Oh yeah my insurance is more like $1300 :/

**YellowDog** · 28th July 2009, 21:59

Originally Posted by Crazy Steve

The increase Rego to $321.24 started 01/07/2009...

You wern't lucky you paid the right amount.....

Crazy Steve.

I paid mine from this page:

http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/vehicle-owne...istration.html

$382.67

Looks like I have been screwed.

**marty** · 28th July 2009, 22:50

Originally Posted by Crazy Steve

Marty if your taking home $2700 per week your being paid far tooo MUCH ! !

Crazy Steve.

I'm currently looking at an option in one of the 'stan' countries.

US$500/day when working.

Plus, US$1000/day every day you're there (or alive...)

Doing what I'm doing now, just out in the sand.

What recession?

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 28th July 2009, 23:08

Originally Posted by dangerous

at least those guys make a attempt to keep acc levies down, and remember they would most likely be far worse off in dragons etc.

NO acc claims here (27yrs and over 300,000km's later)

same... errr wait 25 years... you old bugga you