The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
05-12-2013, 16:10
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The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
From October 2014 the paper car tax is expected to be replaced with a new digital system.
Hopefully this isn't an excuse to charge us more than what we currently pay!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25223631
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05-12-2013, 16:13
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
about time as well.
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05-12-2013, 16:14
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
The cost should be scrapped all together.
They plan to let people do monthly direct debit payments although this will come with an extra charge.
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05-12-2013, 16:26
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
Have to find another six billion pounds from somewhere if they scrapped it...
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05-12-2013, 16:31
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
The cost should be scrapped all together.
They plan to let people do monthly direct debit payments although this will come with an extra charge.
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According to this the charge itself is being reduced from 10% to 5% too
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...s-8983765.html
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05-12-2013, 17:01
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
It costs more to administer than the Government get back.
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05-12-2013, 17:03
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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It costs more to administer than the Government get back.
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It doesn't cost more than £6 billion to administer
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05-12-2013, 18:28
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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It really aught to be moved over to fuel so it becomes PAYG with the gas guzzlers and max milers paying the most.
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They do don't they - how much you pay is connected to CO2 emissions, which I'd expect in turn is related to MPG.
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05-12-2013, 18:31
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
It really aught to be moved over to fuel so it becomes PAYG with the gas guzzlers and max milers paying the most.
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I've been saying this for years and years!
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05-12-2013, 18:36
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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What was the 10% before?
was there a before?
what's the 5% it's being reduced to?
I thought direct debit was free?
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05-12-2013, 18:44
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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What was the 10% before?
was there a before?
what's the 5% it's being reduced to?
I thought direct debit was free?
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Ok, maybe I wasn't completely right there
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/d...f-the-tax-disc
There will be no additional handling fees for annual payments but to limit the impact on the public finances there will be a small surcharge of 5% of vehicle tax for biannual and monthly payments. This is half of the 10% surcharge that is currently applied to 6 monthly tax discs and which has been in existence for a number of decades.
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05-12-2013, 18:49
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
So how does anyone know that a car is taxed unless you have an ANPR device, not taxed means void insurance, the local ratbags will have a fieldday !!
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05-12-2013, 18:53
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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Ok, maybe I wasn't completely right there
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/d...f-the-tax-disc
There will be no additional handling fees for annual payments but to limit the impact on the public finances there will be a small surcharge of 5% of vehicle tax for biannual and monthly payments. This is half of the 10% surcharge that is currently applied to 6 monthly tax discs and which has been in existence for a number of decades. |
Ok.
---------- Post added at 18:53 ---------- Previous post was at 18:51 ----------
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So how does anyone know that a car is taxed unless you have an ANPR device, not taxed means void insurance, the local ratbags will have a fieldday !!
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I know. 'they're' useless as it is now for not doing anything even with a thing in the window saying I'm illegal.
having nothing in the window means we can all ignore it.
unless you go through an ANPR just like we do now anyway.
it's like walking around with a piece of paper on your back saying I'm illegal. so the people who had to wear that piece of paper only went out at night or very rarely.
now they can mingle with the rest of us knowing that we don't know otherwise.
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05-12-2013, 18:54
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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So how does anyone know that a car is taxed unless you have an ANPR device, not taxed means void insurance, the local ratbags will have a fieldday !!
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The only thing this might change is where someone is walking past a car and sees the tax disc being out of date.
Any other situation, and it'll be the same as now
I'd assume that Traffic Wardens and other such people have access to the VED database, or will have by that point anyway.
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05-12-2013, 18:57
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Re: The Car tax disc is to be scrapped after 93 years
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Originally Posted by banjo
So how does anyone know that a car is taxed unless you have an ANPR device, not taxed means void insurance, the local ratbags will have a fieldday !!
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the authorities don't need to see a tax disc as things stand the same as they don't need to see an MOT or insurance certificate
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