Disappointing

[steveo]

The number of cars without road tax has doubled since the disc was scrapped.

Put the bloody road tax on petrol. Those who use the roads more will pay more. Gas guzzling cars will pay more.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The number of cars without road tax has doubled since the disc was scrapped.

Put the bloody road tax on petrol. Those who use the roads more will pay more. Gas guzzling cars will pay more.

It vehicle excise duty not road tax.

It must be the easiest pinch for the police to make.

Why not print out a list of court summons each day and the police simply serve them whilst out on patrol?

 

[londonblue]

It vehicle excise duty not road tax.

It must be the easiest pinch for the police to make.

Why not print out a list of court summons each day and the police simply serve them whilst out on patrol?

In your opinion. In mine it's still a road tax in everything but name. You're able to declare SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification), i.e. you only pay if your vehicle uses the public roads, which, in my eyes makes it a road tax.

 

[steveo]

It vehicle excise duty not road tax.

and these days is proportionate to how much pollution your motor puts out which generally equates to how many miles per gallon you do. So put it on petrol and the more you use the more you pay - and no one gets to doge it.

 

[RobM]

and these days is proportionate to how much pollution your motor puts out which generally equates to how many miles per gallon you do. So put it on petrol and the more you use the more you pay - and no one gets to doge it.

...unless they use false plates and drive away without paying. A practice known as "bilking".

 

[Firestorm]

and these days is proportionate to how much pollution your motor puts out which generally equates to how many miles per gallon you do. So put it on petrol and the more you use the more you pay - and no one gets to doge it.

That will work really well for the public, limit personal vehicle emmissions etc..
I doubt the business community will allow it though, a one off annual payment is budgetable in advance, Increasing fuel costs , which are aleady variable, could well make cost planning a tad more difficult and may well drive up prices , paricularly for any delveries to more remote areas.

 

[londonblue]

That will work really well for the public, limit personal vehicle emmissions etc..
I doubt the business community will allow it though, a one off annual payment is budgetable in advance, Increasing fuel costs , which are aleady variable, could well make cost planning a tad more difficult and may well drive up prices , paricularly for any delveries to more remote areas.

I think I also read that when this was last suggested haulage companies pointed out it would then be cheaper to drive to France to fill up, and some of them, especially the ones that actually travel to Europe legitimately actually would do so.