Road Tax

[alancdavis]

So whats Osbornes plan with a new road tax

[ATR477V]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25223631

To stop people from driving without paying their dues hopefully. There's a prick round the corner from me doesn't believe in road tax, he had a manky Isuzu parked blocking the pavement for 7 weeks with tax 2 months out of date, now he's got a van and the tax disc is 30 September 2013, makes my blood boil.

[alancdavis]

Found it

End of the road for the traditional paper car tax disc

Abolished: Motorists will not have to display the documents in their cars from October 2014


Almost 100 years of motoring history has been torn up when the traditional car tax disc is abolished

From October next year, motorists will no longer have to display their road tax in the windscreen of their vehicles.
In another boost for drivers, fuel duty will not rise before the general election, after George Osborne found £750million to cancel a 2p-a-litre rise in fuel due next September.
Insiders say the tax disc – which was introduced in 1920 in the heyday of the Ford Model T – is unnecessary because they are rarely inspected by police nowadays.

The plans will save £7 million in administration costs.
Unfortunately for motorists, they will still have to pay Vehicle Excise Duty – but the Treasury claims that there will also be savings of £20 million for Britain’s hard-pressed motorists as a result of changes to the way car tax can be paid.

The number of windscreens checked for tax discs by officers has dropped 75 per cent in the last five years, thanks to the electronic vehicle register that is used by both traffic police and the DVLA.

A police source said: ‘The tax disc is no longer needed for enforcement purposes. ‘The police use numberplate recognition equipment. If they pull you over they can immediately tap into this database and see whether the car is taxed and insured and what the driver ought to look like.’

Officials said that both the police and the Post Office have ‘indicated their support’ for the abolition of the tax disc.
Motorists will also be able to pay their Vehicle Excise Duty monthly via direct debit and will become cheaper to pay for a six month period.



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[morcheen]

think of all those redundant tax disc holders

[jimmer]

Less jobs, no printers required!

[RS2000CUSTOM]

This makes it even easier now to drive around in a cloned car

Buy a run of the mill boggo motor - eg a Silver 54 plate Vectra

Find a similar example of the car and make a note of its reg

Check askmid website to ensure it insured

Check DVLA to ensure it taxed

Fit same reg plates to your car

Put something on dash to cover vin tag

Now drive round and no traffic warden or copper will be able to read registration on your tax disc as car no longer needs one but on ANPR cameras ALL COMES BACK GOOD

At least with a serial numbered tax disc it was a visual check that could be done to see if anything was amiss.

So FREE parking or Free Speeding fines etc etc

[alancdavis]

Sounds like a cunning plan,,

[Frosticles]

Tis a bad move

[Gremlin]

It's vehicle duty not road tax, once this is up and running then they will look at charging us for using the roads per mile. This will be the new road tax

It does blow out of the window the argument that the gas works in London always had against getting rid of the disk saying it would lead to more people having uninsured vehicles

[mk1gaz]

Great news . We can leave and work on our projects out in the street now as they won't be driving past any ANPR cameras if they don't move .

[katana]

Never understood why they didn't abolish it completely and add a % on to fuel duty! That way EVERYBODY pays and pays according to how much wear and tear on the roads they create! I'm sure businesses will bitch about how much it'd cost them but fairer for some of us paying £200 a year who might do less than 500 miles? At least no one could avoid it if they fill up in the UK!

[alancdavis]

Agree,, pay per mile

[tammy]

Car tax

If they bring in pay per mile or fuel duty, free road tax for old cars would be out the window, to honest the goverment is at its wits end how to keep funding people that do not work no matter what country they come from, we will soon be top heavy and then go bust.

[rwdrs]

If they pull you over they can immediately tap into this database and see whether the car is taxed and insured and what the driver ought to look like.’

Big brother likes to know what his little lambs look like
Does this mean that they can call up the pic on your driving licence?
Thank fück I got out when I did...

[youngpecker]

f****in t***** shits! give me free tax from next aprill then put it on fuel