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    Default Re: 1st October Tax Discs are gone

    but not everyone on DLA has access to a car so would they get the extra too?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maelbrigda View Post
    but not everyone on DLA has access to a car so would they get the extra too?
    Only if they get the higher rate of the mobility component and have a car for their use. They already get 55 pounds a week, so if it was deemed that more help was needed to cover the tax then they would need to apply for it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Maelbrigda View Post
    but not everyone on DLA has access to a car so would they get the extra too?
    Well they could use it to pay for a taxi which would help.

    As it happens we talked to our postmistress yesterday and they have been told that those with exemption can still go to the post office and get it that way as a human needs to see the paper work

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    Default Re: 1st October Tax Discs are gone

    Number plate theft and cloning will go through the roof!

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    Quote Originally Posted by astral276 View Post
    I would say add it to the DLA, as your being excused it is a benefit against your disability. All should pay the same road tax if they use the roads. No concessions for smaller engines and the like.

    Of course, road tax is just another revenue stream. It has nothing to do with the roads. I read somewhere that if the revenue collected as road tax in one year was actually spent on the road network we would have one of the best in Europe.
    It has had nothing to do with the roads since the 1930s! Before I was born it was known as the "Road Fund Licence". The trm and the licence were abolished; the tax is on the vehicle and nothing to do with road use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cambrensis View Post
    It has had nothing to do with the roads since the 1930s! Before I was born it was known as the "Road Fund Licence". The trm and the licence were abolished; the tax is on the vehicle and nothing to do with road use.
    I thought that was what I said.


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    Quote Originally Posted by astral276 View Post
    I thought that was what I said.
    I was agreeing with you and giving chapter and verse as a pre-emptive strike! It was Churchill, I think, who said that the idea that this tax should be used for the upkeep of the roads was total nonsense - just after WWI. Road tax was abolished in 1937. Was pre emptive as I still hear people much younger than I referring to the "RFL" as if it it were a reality!

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    Default Re: 1st October Tax Discs are gone

    I think most people refer to it as Road Tax, whatever the government choose to call it.

    The official name I believe is Vehicle Tax or Vehicle Excise Duty, but really it is, as I said, just a revenue stream. If it were ever to be abolished it would just be put on something else (glass eyes, white sticks, etc.).


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    Quote Originally Posted by astral276 View Post
    I think most people refer to it as Road Tax, whatever the government choose to call it.
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    Agreed! Which is why we find these articles about "if it were spent on the roads..." turning up. I remember a staff room "debate" about this very subject in 1963. One of the others had just bought his first car...

    Obviously the authorities feel the technology is now advanced enough to cope with paperless taxation. Well we've had pointless political dithering all my life! Just wondering how long it will be before they start thinking it might be a good idea to have a paper version as a backup!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cambrensis View Post
    Just wondering how long it will be before they start thinking it might be a good idea to have a paper version as a backup!
    Quite likely. The police have the ability now to instantly check if a vehicle is taxed, insured, and has a MOT certificate. Yet you are still expected to lug your documentation around with you.


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