Road Tax Rip Off

[UNG]

Sign the petition https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70266 to hopefully force the government to review their new road tax rules that means a vehicle could be taxed twice in a month

 

[dingledong]

It's what they do rip us off

 

[Octopus]

ha. ha.

Now this is so well known, it will simply lead to more untaxed vehicles on the road.

 

[dingledong]

No it can't the police have a camera that reads your number plate and tells them your untaxed . So when they are driving to a real emergency they can stop and do you for no tax then carry on to the emergency

 

[Octopus]

No it can't the police have a camera that reads your number plate and tells them your untaxed . So when they are driving to a real emergency they can stop and do you for no tax then carry on to the emergency

There are still approx 5% (yes over 1 million) un taxed cars on the road - so I doubt things will change. These are "reportedly" in the crime "hot spots" of the UK and the Police don't bother with them!

Add to this the "cloned" cars and the problem is huge - in fact now its not a requirement to display a tax disc I can see the number of cloned cars increasing big time.

Another smack in the face for the law abiding Brit!

 

[dingledong]

Yes it can cause big big problems if your vehicle is cloned .ah well the government knows best

 

[Octopus]

A few weeks ago on LBC, a caller rang in to tell the tale of her car being cloned!

She got sent a massive amount of fixed penalties - each one was sent back stating the car had been cloned - this carried on for months until the mother and daughter decided to be Miss Marple and started "plotting" on a map where each offence was recorded. From this they could see patterns of parking offences, speeding, crossing into the London Congestion zone.....

With this detail they then pin pointed the area where the car driver must live.

This was then taken to the Police - who didn't want to know.

The fines only stopped when the car had a massive accident and the culprit ran away!

 

[dingledong]

Yes on tv a woman had big problems with congestion charges because of a cloned car

 

[Octopus]

Yes on tv a woman had big problems with congestion charges because of a cloned car

I think that if you get cloned, then the best course of action would be a number plate change VIA DVLA! Yes it would cost a few quid but at least it would "prove" your innocence!

 

[dingledong]

Or just clone your vehicle and make out you sold it haha

 

[UNG]

There are still approx 5% (yes over 1 million) un taxed cars on the road - so I doubt things will change. These are "reportedly" in the crime "hot spots" of the UK and the Police don't bother with them!

Having a tax disc or not is not going to change the 5%'s attitude to buying road tax

Add to this the "cloned" cars and the problem is huge - in fact now its not a requirement to display a tax disc I can see the number of cloned cars increasing big time.

How many cloned cars have you noticed because the tax disc doesn't match the reg plate

Another smack in the face for the law abiding Brit!

The biggest smack is the double taxation potential if you sell or buy a car part way through a month

 

[fuel]

Car insurance is the next big rip off, for me anyway. £2097 for a 1.0l Peaugot?! Hard to get a quote for a van, or when i did it was 4k+ for a 1.3 Combo... Daylight robbery.

 

[davesparks]

No it can't the police have a camera that reads your number plate and tells them your untaxed . So when they are driving to a real emergency they can stop and do you for no tax then carry on to the emergency

No they don't, police don't stop on a blue light run for anything.

It's not just the police that have ANPR cameras, they are all over the place for all sorts of applications.

The police have them in some vehicles, but not all, and they are often vans etc parked at the side of the road or dedicatee ANPR vehicles.
Their biggest weakness is the age of the database attached to the system as it is often up to 3 months out of date.

 

[Geordie Spark]

ha. ha.

Now this is so well known, it will simply lead to more untaxed vehicles on the road.

Become a Freeman On the Land standing under Common Law and de-register your vehicle.

 

[ayjay]

i have a citroen 2cv fully com is £130- a year inc breakdown cover and travel abroad

Car insurance is the next big rip off, for me anyway. £2097 for a 1.0l Peaugot?! Hard to get a quote for a van, or when i did it was 4k+ for a 1.3 Combo... Daylight robbery.

 

[7029 dave]

Yes, and it would have been nice of them to inform us of the changes.

 

[telectrix]

i have a citroen 2cv fully com is £130- a year inc breakdown cover and travel abroad

if you drive a 2cv, insurance is the least of your problems. you will be chasing villains for the foreseeable.

 

[snowhead]

Yes, and it would have been nice of them to inform us of the changes.

You've been out the Country for the last 18months then, while it's been plastered all over the Internet, papers and T.v.

It's been on the Dvla website for months as well.

 

[7029 dave]

You've been out the Country for the last 18months then, while it's been plastered all over the Internet, papers and T.v.

It's been on the Dvla website for months as well.

Ain't got a pc snow, lol anyway it would have been nice in person.

 

[dingledong]

Yes to save money on the last couple of months of tax discs they didn't perforate them , so had to cut them out with scissors