Yeah I can imagine that happeningQ - how many years have you held your license
A - minus errrr ...... some ? Not sure yet as I'm only 16 and I don't even have a provisional."That will be £1000,000.00 per year please, pay in full or direct debit sir ?"
But wait.. what's my annual mileage you say? 0? Ok then that'll be... £0. Direct debit?
What I would like to know is how much it costs DVLA to issue all these £0.00 tax disc's on the lowest emission vehicles?
It's not justr low emission vehicles - emergency services vehicles, vehicles owned by a disabled person, cars older than 1973, agriculural vehicles...
The below from http://ipayroadtax.com :
[i]Let’s keep it simple and say the cost to print, distribute and sell each VED disc is a quid. There are about 2 million vehicles which don’t pay VED. That’s two million quid of subsidy to get tax discs to those who don’t pay for them. Those motorists who want cyclists to “pay road tax” need to realise that bicycles, as non-polluting vehicles, would be classified as Band A vehicles and hence would have to pay nowt. With 25 million bicycles in ownership, that would be £25m to get each bicycle a valid tax disc.[/i]
There's the other costs of things like selling a bike on (and changing the name on the "tax disc") and the fact that bikes can be so easily stripped and split.
Utterly totally unworkable in so many ways.
Problem is you can't really shout that back at some **** who's just yelled "pay yer road tx!" as he overtakes at 30mph. Need a swift yet witty response in its place... The swear filter will probably remove any ideas I put forward here.
hate this argument, there is no such thing as "road tax" in the uk, the tax is a levy on vehicle emissions.
But wait.. what's my annual mileage you say? 0? Ok then that'll be... £0. Direct debit?
And that's even less likely to happen
Have you actually ever dealt with an insurance company ??? 😉
They would charge an absolute FORTUNE for that cover, if anyone was ever stupid enough to ask for it.
(If they would even do it at all)
That costs more than the VED I pay on my car.
What would happen if you were run off the road by a Streetview car or an Amazon delivery?
Slightly OT but one of the secondary functions of ved was presumably to capture insurance and mot evaders before the dvla had electronic control of these matters through the mid and electronic mot data.
With those in place i wonder if its time to abolish ved and capture the lost tax at the pumps.
That way the biggest polluters pay and it becomes a tax on emissions.
Mot centres and insurers could then issue an annual window sticker each so that the mot and insurance dodgers can be picked up by traffic wardens etc like they currently do off tax discs.
omg what a set of pedantic ****ers
