Paper Tax Disc To Be Scrapped

[Bowker Maserati]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ill-announce-in-autumn-statement-8983765.html

I know no more than the above link, begs to ask how this will be received and policed!

 

[Chrisbassett]

If it works, good news for us Spyder owners as it's one less thing for scraggy little runts to nick from an open parked car.

 

[zagatoes30]

Always thought that there must be better ways of getting a revenue from road tax. I would have added the cost onto fuel, then the more you use the more you pay. You wouldn't be able to drive and not pay it and you could get rid of a complete department and infrastructure that supports it. It would also mean someone like me with many cars would only pay for the one I was driving at the time.

At least moving to electronic database removes the admin part but I still end up paying for cars that are parked up

 

[mjheathcote]

Always thought that there must be better ways of getting a revenue from road tax. I would have added the cost onto fuel, then the more you use the more you pay. You wouldn't be able to drive and not pay it and you could get rid of a complete department and infrastructure that supports it. It would also mean someone like me with many cars would only pay for the one I was driving at the time.

At least moving to electronic database removes the admin part but I still end up paying for cars that are parked up

Ditto!

 

[roger102]

perhaps that will eventually be they way forward but as they want as much money as poss they have no problem with us fleet owners Zag

 

[dem maser]

I hate it!! Tax it on fuel....why should i pay the same doing 2k a year as someone doing 40k

 

[dem maser]

Road tax means your paying to use the roads, so if i use them less......

 

[CatmanV2]

Road tax means your paying to use the roads, so if i use them less......

It's not road tax....

C

 

[dem maser]

Just tax

 

[zagatoes30]

It's not road tax....

C

That's obvious given the state of the roads.

It is a Road Fund License - i.e. a License to use the roads, therefore by definition the money raised should be used to maintain that the roads we are licensed to use are of a useable condition.

I know it goes into the central taxation pot and therefore it should not be a road fund license. This further supports my argument of adding it to a general taxation class e.g. Fuel. As previously stated the more I use the more I pay, the more fuel efficient vehicle I choose to use the less I pay and vica versa - the choices are mine.

Rant over

 

[CatmanV2]

That's obvious given the state of the roads.

It is a Road Fund License

Er, I think it's actually a Vehicle Excise Duty, and *therefore* a tax for the privilege of owning a car and keeping it on the public road. The rest I can't but agree with you

C

 

[conaero]

About time I say, it should all be done on numberplate, but the golden question is, that £7m saved by scrapping paper discs....it will be reflected in a reduction in the tax price yes??????



...so cynical for one so young

 

[CatmanV2]

About time I say, it should all be done on numberplate, but the golden question is, that £7m saved by scrapping paper discs....it will be reflected in a reduction in the tax price yes??????



...so cynical for one so young

2.47m cars on the road, so that's £2.83 off each. *Super*

C

 

[drewf]

I can't believe it "only" costs 3 quid to produce and distribute a tax disk. Equally, I'm sure the savings will be swamped by the costs of a new system. And its replacement when the first system doesn't work. Cost should go on fuel, then all road users would pay, including foreign visitors.

 

[bigbob]

2.47m cars on the road, so that's £2.83 off each. *Super*

C

Think you've got the decimal place out on the number of cars.

 

[CatmanV2]

Think you've got the decimal place out on the number of cars.

So I have. Wasn't thinking straight, clearly

C

 

[CatmanV2]

I can't believe it "only" costs 3 quid to produce and distribute a tax disk. Equally, I'm sure the savings will be swamped by the costs of a new system. And its replacement when the first system doesn't work. Cost should go on fuel, then all road users would pay, including foreign visitors.

As my esteemed colleague has just pointed out, I was out by a factor of 10, so it's in fact 30p per disc.

Having said that, I'm not sure what the discussion about how to police or new systems is? As far as I know, the database is already in place for the ANPR stuff, and the police haven't been looking at paper discs for a long time.

So it *seems* to me that they'll just miss out the step of sending out the actual disc.

I could be wrong, of course.

C

 

[hodroyd]

Who actually checks Tax Discs these days, Traffic / Parking Wardens, Police on the Beat (do they still do that), so what is the point really..?? Traffic officers just do a PNC check and they have all the facts. When it comes to cars with false plates and untaxed / insured / tested vehicles, nobody knows unless they are spotted, or are involved in an accident..??

 

[BennyD]

Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) patrol cars and static vans are checking vehicles 24/7. It flags up if it sees a vehicle with a problem or is of interest to our porcine pals. You might be checked half a dozen times on the same journey and you wouldn't known unless there was a problem. Paper discs became redundant several years ago and it's about time they were scrapped.

 

[dem maser]

Friend works for the council and he goes round in a van with a camera and when they are illegal he gets a recovery truck....i got a call last year when a runaround was not taxed as it was the 1st of the month and i forgot.....all on computers now