Tax Discs/license fees

[eddiec]

Read an article on news.com yesterday about the DoT (or whatever it's
now called since I left Blighty) going after the "hardcore" non-payers
and was curious about reactions from you guys, i.e. waste of time/tax-payer
money or a good idea? Or should they sell the vehicles instead of crushing
them?

Story at http://news.com.com/Curbing+tax+evas...l?tag=nefd.top

[Dr DX]

well in a way i do agree but they dont excatly make tax cheap do they?

[duplu]

They should save themselves some time and money and simply put the tax on top of the petrol tax. That way the gas guzzlers pay more tax as they should. People who drive less frequently would end up paying a lot less than the £100-£150 they have to pay for it now. The only down side is that they would have to thin of another way of checking whether people are insured or not. The tax at the moment is a way of checking insurance and MOTs on cars.

Did you see the way I talked myself out of the idea

I'm all in agreement for chasing the ar tax dodgers but can we drop the TV Licence fee instead, now that is a waste of time! Did you know you have to have one now even for watching downloaded video on your PC?

[dtrmad2004]

Originally Posted by duplu

They should save themselves some time and money and simply put the tax on top of the petrol tax. That way the gas guzzlers pay more tax as they should. People who drive less frequently would end up paying a lot less than the £100-£150 they have to pay for it now. The only down side is that they would have to thin of another way of checking whether people are insured or not. The tax at the moment is a way of checking insurance and MOTs on cars.

Did you see the way I talked myself out of the idea

I'm all in agreement for chasing the ar tax dodgers but can we drop the TV Licence fee instead, now that is a waste of time! Did you know you have to have one now even for watching downloaded video on your PC?

They already know if you are insured or not, dunno about up your way but down in Kent there are many ANPR (Automatic Numberplate Recognition Cameras) they check for insurance, tax, and if the registered keeper of the vehichle holds a driving licence and also if the car has been involved in any criminal activity, if you for example have done a bank robbery and used a getway car that someone got the plate of and notified the police the ANPR's would flag it and send out a patrol to come and find and arrest you.

They are placed in all roads in and out of the isle of thanet but I found a way around them lol, they didnt plan that out to well

And having tax and mot is no proof of insurance, anyone can buy a cheap runaround thats been taxed and tested and not insure it and just give a false name and address when buying it if the seller insists on filling the V5 in and sending as thats the way it should be done but most dont.

Andy

[Dr DX]

Originally Posted by dtrmad2004

They already know if you are insured or not, dunno about up your way but down in Kent there are many ANPR (Automatic Numberplate Recognition Cameras) they check for insurance, tax, and if the registered keeper of the vehichle holds a driving licence and also if the car has been involved in any criminal activity, if you for example have done a bank robbery and used a getway car that someone got the plate of and notified the police the ANPR's would flag it and send out a patrol to come and find and arrest you.

They are placed in all roads in and out of the isle of thanet but I found a way around them lol, they didnt plan that out to well

And having tax and mot is no proof of insurance, anyone can buy a cheap runaround thats been taxed and tested and not insure it and just give a false name and address when buying it if the seller insists on filling the V5 in and sending as thats the way it should be done but most dont.

Andy

dam i shudve thought of that lol

[eddiec]

Licence for watching video on a pc?? Hell no!! Eff that.
What loonies allowed that? No-one rioted?

Ye gods I'm glad I left now. The licence fee for a tv is outdated in itself
but the big-brother in-yer-face of things there now, plus the insane
petrol prices.... throw them all out.


But of course here in americky things are also fracked up.... the govt
refuses to increase minimum wage yet they give themselves a raise.
That, coupled with their 'private' (aka back-handers from corporations)
being millions of $ per year.... time for a Henry V - "kill the lawyers"
and expand it to politicians..... The american sheep have forgotten
what " by the people for the people" means.