Paper Tax Disc To Be Scrapped

[hodroyd]

Exactly, so why have the silly disc stuck in your window, it makes little sense these days..!!

 

[Parisien]

....do you have to display the MOT disc in your window in UK too, like we do here?

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[CatmanV2]

....do you have to display the MOT disc in your window in UK too, like we do here?

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Ain't no such animal. We get a manky computer print out.
C

 

[dem maser]

No room on the windscreen for it....tax, resident badge.....

 

[Parisien]

We get a certificate too, but also disc like tax disc...in RoI you also have to put an insurance form in windscreen too!


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[CatmanV2]

We get a certificate too, but also disc like tax disc...in RoI you also have to put an insurance form in windscreen too!


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What with the mobile holder, sat nav holder, CD hanging from rear view mirror, speed camera detector it's amazing you can see out at all

C

 

[hodroyd]

Hahaha, I say let's get rid of some stuff off the windscreen, we only have to have a taax disc here in the UK, but with the equipment we use too, it's more than enough..!!

 

[zagatoes30]

About time I say, it should all be done on numberplate

Wouldn't that mean you would have to change your plate every year? Easy but expensive for most of us but a bit more difficult for those with illegal spacing

 

[hodroyd]

No I think it's keep the number plate you have, but that number is then recorded as being taxed, or not as may be the case..!! It' just like now, if you don't have a tax disc in the window, your car can still be checked to see if it's taxed by computer..!!

 

[dem maser]

What Robert said.....you dont change plates

 

[TridentTested]

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!

It's been moving this way for years, witness the way insurance and MoT details are checked at the click of a button when you renew your VED online. Once it is all online there is no point having the little paper disc, no one looks at it anyway.

A story:-
One of my Chamonix friends took his battered Punto on a day trip to Geneva. This Punto, Irish registered, hasn't seen an NCT (MoT) station nor tax disc for ten years (but it is insured). By Irish motor regs it should have been displaying all three (tax, NCT, and Insurance) discs in the windscreen. The Swiss border police took an interest in this old wreck with nothing showing in the window.
They stopped him and asked for "documents".
He gave them his passport.
"Documents, car" they repeated.
He shrugged and said "computer, all computerised".
"Documents"
"All on the computer. In Ireland, all computerised".
They got bored and waved him on.

I suspect there will be more of this

 

[hodroyd]

Sounds good to me Michael, I'll remember that..!!

 

[dem maser]

Always a way for people to get out.....i like it as it is

 

[zagatoes30]

Always a way for people to get out.....i like it as it is

That's why I like the fuel option. If you use a car you fuel it, if you fuel it you pay the tax - simples

The more you use the more you pay - even more simples

 

[dem maser]

They will loose money so wont happen!!

 

[hodroyd]

That could have an effect of increasing prices as businesses have to absorb additional cost..??

 

[dem maser]

They tax every car now, if they tax what you use they will loose

 

[safrane]

There will be no savings as a result. The IT will go way over budget and eventually be scrapped and they will put up fuel duty...just like all government programmes.

 

[dem maser]

Whatever takes off they stop....a panda used to be free CC but now its just electrics....

 

[alfatwo]

It's been moving this way for years, witness the way insurance and MoT details are checked at the click of a button when you renew your VED online. Once it is all online there is no point having the little paper disc, no one looks at it anyway.

A story:-
One of my Chamonix friends took his battered Punto on a day trip to Geneva. This Punto, Irish registered, hasn't seen an NCT (MoT) station nor tax disc for ten years (but it is insured). By Irish motor regs it should have been displaying all three (tax, NCT, and Insurance) discs in the windscreen. The Swiss border police took an interest in this old wreck with nothing showing in the window.
They stopped him and asked for "documents".
He gave them his passport.
"Documents, car" they repeated.
He shrugged and said "computer, all computerised".
"Documents"
"All on the computer. In Ireland, all computerised".
They got bored and waved him on.

I suspect there will be more of this

O yeah....I got arrested and thumb printed by the Swiss border police for having the wrong docs for an old Alfa I was driving back to the UK a couple of years ago...

Dave