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Fri 1 Oct 2004 08:48
New car tax? - teabelly
Just seen this on pistonheads:
www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=9189

The dvla are having a consultation on a new fee proposal so that anyone with a vehicle on their computer has to pay them £4.50 a year. It applies to all vehicles including pre-1973 classics. If you have several cars, registrations, large bits with chassic numbers registered with them then you get to pay for each entry. It sounds like an underhand way of getting road tax back on older cars and those SORN'd. It might start out at under a fiver but what is the betting that it gets up to £50 within a few years once the precedent has been set?

I don't know how museums are treated in this either as this is quite a cost when you have say 100 cars.

DVLA consultation document is here:
www.dvla.gov.uk/public/consult/driver_fee/df_summa...m


teabelly
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Fri 1 Oct 2004 10:16
New car tax? - Stuartli
If I had a vehicle on my computer, the system wouldn't work very well afterwards..:-)

But I know what you mean...:-)

Every month this country gets nearer and nearer to a totalitarian regime but the general public just seems oblivious to the fact.

I can understand the requirement to deliver a more modern method of keeping track of nearly 30 million vehicles on our roads, along with accurate details of driving licence holders, but this should have been done much earlier and from DVLA income.

But, of course, motorists are easy prey and from every angle. Even to stop and park my car on my town centre's roads, which I have already helped to pay and maintain several times over, both locally and nationally, means dipping into the back pocket.

In fact where I live, if you shop at one particular town centre supermarket, the council runs the parking facilities there as well. If you spend a certain amount or more you get the parking fee refunded but this, in turn, seems a stealth tax on the supermarket's turnover.



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Fri 1 Oct 2004 10:51
New car tax? - Adam {P}
Look on the bright side everyone. At least we don't get taxed on fuel...oh no wait...we do.

Well - we certainly don't have to pay £90 every 6 months in ta...nope - sorry.

Hey - at least we don't have to pay £60 for a minor transgression such as 75mph...oh. Sorry - we do.

Well I'm happy I don't have to fork out 2 grand on insurance...too late.

I think I will have that scotch after all.
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Adam
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Fri 1 Oct 2004 11:32
New car tax? - Mapmaker
I have got a computer on my vehicle - do I really have to pay £4.50 for the proud joy of having an ecu?

And if I have a SatNav palmtop do I have to pay it again?
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Fri 1 Oct 2004 12:27
New car tax? - Robin Reliant
They need to charge it to cover the cost of photocard driving licences?

The cost of driving licences has already gone up "To cover the cost of photocard driving licences"

Dick Turpin is alive and well.
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Fri 1 Oct 2004 13:36
New car tax? - Bromptonaut
Worth reading the whole document, linked from Teabelly's first post. £4.50 is the highest charge amongst a range of options. Collected by the PO along with the VED.

As well as the re-registration fee there's a proposal for a change of keeper fee to be paid by the purchaser but collected by the seller. No registration of change of keeper and no re routing of speeding fines etc until the fee's paid.

Worth considering and responding.
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