Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

The problem is no one likes change.:shrug:

I frankly am glad to be spared the annual wait in line on the last day of the month to acquire a tax disc and have been more than happy to pay for it online in recent years..some changes are very much an improvement.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

They've hardly gone nuts with the new powers since having them.

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/ryed...enalty_powers/

So roughly 1 a week for a single force, with processing costs it's not exactly going to wipe out the UK deficit anytime soon.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

Wonderful, look forward to that

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

The Dartford crossing was only supposed to have a toll for access until the bridge was paid for. That target was hit a couple of years ago so really they shouldn't be charging for that at all.

All the ANPR tracking stuff makes me want to clone a number plate, just to avoid another ways our lives are indiscriminately logged and added to databases and tracked.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

The tax disc's end has come. As it stands its been legal to drive for up to 5 days at the start of the month on your old tax disc if you've ordered one online for a fair while now.

MOTs have gone the same way. Now that they're fully computerised the MOT "certificate" is simply a printed receipt now.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

The original Mersey tunnel was meant to be free donkeys years ago when it was paid for but never happened.
They are building a second bridge at Runcorn and when thats finished there will be a toll over both Runcorn bridges. So any of us over here will have to pay to get into Liverpool unless we go on a huge detour via the motorway.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

Downside is of course that the lack of a valid VEL can only be detected cameras now and not by local beat bobbies. Lack of VEL isn't a huge problem but it's indicative of possible uninsured cars and cars without MOT.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

A simple radio call can check if a car's Taxed, MOT'd or Insured.

Indeed, anyone with a smartphone can check all three of those on any car in minutes.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

askMID isn't always 100% accurate though.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

That is true, but neither is a traditional tax disc at indicating valid insurance. You can easily buy a 6/12 month tax disc with only weeks/days of MOT and insurance remaining.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

And how does the cop decide which car to do a check on? If only there was some form of visual way to check, maybe a small paper disc that could be displayed in the windscreen.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

You don't even have to have valid insurance to get a tax disk, just the certificate. Dishonest people have been getting away with that for years.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

I think the point is that you don't. the more illegal cars brought back on the roads under cover the better. they're now having to buy fuel and all the rest that comes with motoring. they will boost the economy by spending money that they may not have spent before when they weren't using the car.

call it an amnesty.
only, when you get caught you pay some money.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

I have within the last 3 months seen the police sitting at the side of the road with an ANPR camera and then all the number plates will be run through the DVLA computer.

Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
 

And?

My point is a tax disc of a parked car provides a myriad of information about the vehicle and can prompt further digging. ANPR cameras won't do this and can be bypassed remarkably easily.