Tax on speeding tickets?

[FourWheelDrift]

Just listening to the lunchtime news on BBC1 and they have mentioned a possible tax being introduced on Speeding tickets to pay for the victims of crimes.

more to come.

[eliminator]

Let's get mobilised - write / fax / email your MP now and this might get dropped.

[FourWheelDrift]

Aha!

This is the extra £35 that's been mentioned, so rather than the fines going up they are going to claim it's a tax that will go to victims. But what proof will we have of this and who will decided who the victim is.

Tony Martin/Fred Barras as an example.

[wolosp]

Increasing speeding/parking fines so that additional cash can be given to 'victims of crime'.... I resent the association with crime - are they suggesting that a motorist fined for 38mph in a 30mph limit is comparable to a 'real' criminal? It's just yet another tax...how many have this government brought in to date?

[voyds9]

Not a bad tax 58% of the original fee.

Chancellor expected to have a £10 billion black hole in this years budget. If this man ran a company it would be bankrupt, however he runs a country so we get to dig him out of the hole. Expect lots more of this taxes.

[madou]

News of the speed camera tax from the television tax people

httpp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3100229.stm

who end on their report "But road safety groups challenged the move and said more cameras and harsh enforcement of the law would cut deaths"

Also "almost three-quarters of adults questioned did not know tides and currents could be dangerous."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3101751.stm

so I warn you all, do not jump off motorway bridges into motorway traffic, this could be very dangerous



>> Edited by madou on Monday 28th July 19:09

[5ltr-chim]

:sarcasticrantmode-ON:

Yeah - Can't wait..

£60-00 fine + £35-00 Tax = Legalised speeding & therefore not endorseable - but don't tell them..

Why - you can't tax an illegal act or a fine imposed for an illegal act - or so I'm reliably told.

And after all haven't we all been waiting for a way to donate to victims of crime

:sarcasticrantmode-OFF:

[Flat in Fifth]

Chill guys, this is just another of their " lets float this idea and see what response we get"

judging by the coverage in the media this spineless lot won't have the cojones to actually do it.

Secondly way things are going come the next election they are going to be thrown out of Gov't so far I'll probably never see another Labour Gov't in my lifetime.

Then again all that could just be wishful thinking.