I totally agree about scrapping road tax and upping fuel 5p a litre. Average motorist will pay the same, high mileage drivers pay more and more importantly johnny foreigner coming here on holiday pays (aimed more at the French with their toll roads)

 

Just how many french cars do you see on the road?

Just worked it out: 5p a litre for me would be £108 per year, so half as much as road tax. That's based on me doing about 15,000 miles a year and driving a fairly inefficient car (i.e. an S2000). So it would have to be at least 10p per litre, and probably more like 15p per litre to get the average motorist to pay the same.

 

Hold on, an extra 5% for paying by direct debit??? Utility companies always give a discount if you use direct debit, even teaving B.T. drop their £2.00 a month "processing fee" if you pay by direct debit. So why are the govenment charging extra to get their grubby mits on our cash?

I've always been in favor of "pay your road tax at the pump" ideas, after all duty and VAT seem easy enough to collect, but then we will be expected to suffer tax creep.

And Denbo it's not just the Frenchies, think of all the Eastern Europeian lorries on our roads? Mind you they will probably will fill up with red in France before they come over, just somthing else to police.

 

Exactly what I do. Why on earth would anyone want to tear it?

 

because it's perforated so you can do just that... just perforated badly. Either do it properly or not at all.

Do you (or did you) cut cheques out of cheque books too?

 

because it's perforated so you can do just that... just perforated badly. Either do it properly or not at all.

Do you (or did you) cut cheques out of cheque books too?
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You can fold the cheques 1st so they are easier to tear but you cannot fold the tax disc along the perforations. I also like my disc nice and tidy so I cut it along the perfs.

 

i used one of these:

 

The extra 5% is for paying monthly by direct debit. i.e. you are borrowing. The same as you pay extra if you pay your insurance monthly.