No Road Tax - I'd Shoot 'Em

[Deleted member 55947]

What I am hearing is that the view now is that the entire paper based will be dumped.

This includes the requirement to produce an insurance certificate at a post office. Strange when you don't on-line.

In effect the on-line system will be the single system used by all including the post office.

That's fine as long as the Ins companies register you quickly. I've insured a vehicle a couple of weeks before it ran out but the Ins don't seem to notify the DVLA until much nearer the time of the commencement of the new policy hence if your tax, mot and Ins are due on the same date problems arise

 

[BTB 500]

However, until then the only way for a Post Office clerk to know you are insured, is to see the certificate.

When I insured the SL in July last year I didn't get a certificate - just a link to view one online (and optionally print it at home). This was Admiral.

 

[brucemillar]

When I insured the SL in July last year I didn't get a certificate - just a link to view one online (and optionally print it at home). This was Admiral.

Correct. That is where it is all heading. What is the point in somebody looking at what may be a certificate or could be a shopping list, ticking a box and bingo?

Go online it will soon all be there. I am hearing 2014. Oh yes the PO option will still be there for Rhodes not online. However the PO will be online.

 

[shorty]

In Ireland its common to allow the road tax to expire and wait 3 or even more months before renewing it . We dont as yet have a SCORN system , we can bring a form to a Garda station and have it stamped saying the car was off road to avoid paying the back tax . I have often let it lapse by up to 9 months before renewing it .

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Cue "Computer says no" scenarios played out in post offices round the country. With your insurance/licence details "somewhere in cyberspace" who is going to be the loser in any dispute? -----Me I like Hard Copy

You could always just print one off?

 

[Bellow]

So why do we pay "Road Tax"----I am surprised at the number of people on this forum totally in agreement with it ?---Just another total goverment rip off in my opinion --like TV licences and Fuel tax -80 odd pence per litre goes to the government to squander on paying themselves huge saleries and constant pay rises ( certainly not on the roads )while the masses humbly suffer and keep on doing so ?----I think we are very thick!

Unfair? life's like that, Road tax is the law, we have to put up with it, just like everything else.

Or we can move to country with minimal to zero taxes - and minimal to zero services. Perhaps teddycatkin knows how we (and him and his close ones) can avoid all ilnesses and accidents thus rendering the NHS and the emergency services obsolete. Education? Why bother....

 

[developer]

I've just spoken to the Police at Birmingham Central.

PC told me if I've renewed online and have a receipt I'm covered to use the car.
He explained that the failure to display offence was if I'd got a valid disc but it wasn't on show.

I queried the fact that I hadn't applied during the last days of the old disc and that it was now day 5 after, and that I'd been told that I couldn't drive the car until the new one arrived:

Here's what ensued (proper Road Wars stylee).

"What's your name sir" (I tell him John).

"Look John, that's a load of crap - I'm a serving police officer - and my colleague stood next to me is nodding in agreement, so that's two officers saying you're ok. You've done it online, so you're covered.

I'm PC xxx and here's my collar number if you're still worried.

You're covered son, have a nice new year son, bye son, bye"

Friendly us Brummies .

 

[Dieselman]

^^ lol...