No more tax dics - Page 2

20vcqdriver · 05-12-13, 09:33 PM

Massive saving for the DVLA, will we see any of it erm not a hope in hell

Phil Jameson · 05-12-13, 09:35 PM

Its like a few things these days.Electronic,paperless etc.Nothing material at all,a bit like music.
Notes and coins will be the next to disappear.
Car club newsletters are or have gone that way to.Not neccesarily for the better,but its all a money saving issue.
I wonder how the world survived all these years????

lefthooker · 05-12-13, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Coxy

it will all be done electronically.

One of our major customers (Enterprise rent-a-car) have been working on this project with the DVLA for just over a year now and it works well. They have a fleet of 73,000 cars and getting a refund on tax discs was an enormous undertaking on a monthly basis for the DVLA as it was anywhere from 4000-7000 refunds processed a month. The process now is so much easier and far more streamlined.
we have a lot of dealings with the DVLA and I have to say, up until recently, they were the most archaic concerns within the UK and so much of it could have been moved over to electronic rather than face to face years ago.
I have 65 sets of trade plates and I used to have to go to our local DVLA office and sit and wait in the queue and then go back a week later and hope that someone had handwritten them all. Now it's centralised, I pay by BACS and the new discs are sent out a few days later in the post printed off a machine and not handwritten! Until June this year, they still used to hand write everything!

I guess at least doing it electronically might mean you can leave a car taxed right up to the end of the month. Sending one in the post has always been a little bit of a gamble, if, for whatever reason, it doesn't arrive with them till the first of the month rather than on or before the last day of the preceding month in which you posted it, you end up losing a whole months worth of refund.

lefthooker · 05-12-13, 10:36 PM

Well, who's got any suggestions as to what we should put in the soon to be vacant bottom left hand corner of our windscreens?

It just won't look right without something there, may I suggest this?

Ringmaster · 05-12-13, 10:46 PM

I think V.E.D. should be scrapped altogether and replaced with an increase on fuel duty.

No more nonsense about paying according to CO2 emissions, exemptions for classics, weekend drivers paying the same as daily drivers etc, just the more fuel you burn, the more you pay.

Don't all shoot me at once.......

Coxy · 05-12-13, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Ringmaster

I think V.E.D. should be scrapped altogether and replaced with an increase on fuel duty.

No more nonsense about paying according to CO2 emissions, exemptions for classics, weekend drivers paying the same as daily drivers etc, just the more fuel you burn, the more you pay.

Don't all shoot me at once.......

totally agree to be honest, if we weren't already taxed enough at the pump as it is!

Ringmaster · 05-12-13, 11:10 PM

The Chancellor hasn't asked me to do the maths yet, but maybe just a few pennies a litre would be needed.....................hmmmmmmmmm

spink · 05-12-13, 11:48 PM

I think the present system is shyte myself,what with losing money if you tax a car half way through the month and also if you cash a 6 month tax disc in having to pay £20 for the pleasure

If they do this new system right you would be able to pay for the remaining days in the month not for the previous time you havn't even had the car on the road.

In new zealand you can(or at least when i was there 6 or 7 years ago) tax a car for between 1 and 365 days,and from memory it was dirt cheap aswell.

But yes as mentioned above it would be best if road tax was binned altogether and just absorbed into cost of fuel.

geneandbolly · 06-12-13, 01:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lefthooker

Well, who's got any suggestions as to what we should put in the soon to be vacant bottom left hand corner of our windscreens?

It just won't look right without something there, may I suggest this?

quattrokid · 06-12-13, 01:06 AM

Since the treasury takes about 45 BILLION quid a year from VED ... that's some increase on fuel IF VED was binned altogether and the driver is taxed on how much fuel he/ she needs to purchase throughout the year !!!!!

I suspect a revamp on emissions will soon come along since so many small cars with very little tax is now running around our roads and as cars become even more fugal at the pumps, the treasury must be loosing a wedge per year just from the sale of little engined city cars !

05-12-13, 09:33 PM	#11
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06-12-13, 01:06 AM	#20
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05-12-13, 09:35 PM	#12
Phil Jameson 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Wigan Posts: 2,432	Its like a few things these days.Electronic,paperless etc.Nothing material at all,a bit like music. Notes and coins will be the next to disappear. Car club newsletters are or have gone that way to.Not neccesarily for the better,but its all a money saving issue. I wonder how the world survived all these years????

05-12-13, 10:36 PM	#14
lefthooker Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 2,655	Well, who's got any suggestions as to what we should put in the soon to be vacant bottom left hand corner of our windscreens? It just won't look right without something there, may I suggest this?

05-12-13, 10:46 PM	#15
Ringmaster Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,326	I think V.E.D. should be scrapped altogether and replaced with an increase on fuel duty. No more nonsense about paying according to CO2 emissions, exemptions for classics, weekend drivers paying the same as daily drivers etc, just the more fuel you burn, the more you pay. Don't all shoot me at once.......

05-12-13, 11:10 PM	#17
Ringmaster Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,326	The Chancellor hasn't asked me to do the maths yet, but maybe just a few pennies a litre would be needed.....................hmmmmmmmmm

05-12-13, 11:48 PM	#18
spink Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: yorkshire Posts: 1,525	I think the present system is shyte myself,what with losing money if you tax a car half way through the month and also if you cash a 6 month tax disc in having to pay £20 for the pleasure If they do this new system right you would be able to pay for the remaining days in the month not for the previous time you havn't even had the car on the road. In new zealand you can(or at least when i was there 6 or 7 years ago) tax a car for between 1 and 365 days,and from memory it was dirt cheap aswell. But yes as mentioned above it would be best if road tax was binned altogether and just absorbed into cost of fuel.