Road tax petition
Discussion
Please read the link below, it's a petition to improve the way road tax is done.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70266
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70266
Road Fund Licences is all wrong anyway. It just needs a complete rethink.
How does the Co2 emissions bar any resemblement on how much tax you have to pay?
Someone using a car all day every day in there £20 tax a year should have to pay a lot more tax than someone who has £500 tax bill for getting their sports car out every few weekends.
How does the Co2 emissions bar any resemblement on how much tax you have to pay?
Someone using a car all day every day in there £20 tax a year should have to pay a lot more tax than someone who has £500 tax bill for getting their sports car out every few weekends.
23rdian said:
Was going to sign it as agree with the suggestion but then thought what's the point. Country is run by the corrupt for the corrupt. Why bother.
If everyone thought like that then things would never get changed. Surely doing something that takes a minute and might make a difference (no matter how slight the chance) is better than doing nothing?Snollygoster said:
Road Fund Licences is all wrong anyway. It just needs a complete rethink.
How does the Co2 emissions bar any resemblement on how much tax you have to pay?
Someone using a car all day every day in there £20 tax a year should have to pay a lot more tax than someone who has £500 tax bill for getting their sports car out every few weekends.
Don't get me started on older cars. They can't be bothered to load everything into the system so if you run an older car. Pre 2001 that's a flat rate regardless of CO2. How does the Co2 emissions bar any resemblement on how much tax you have to pay?
Someone using a car all day every day in there £20 tax a year should have to pay a lot more tax than someone who has £500 tax bill for getting their sports car out every few weekends.
Snollygoster said:
Road Fund Licences is all wrong anyway. It just needs a complete rethink.
How does the Co2 emissions bar any resemblement on how much tax you have to pay?
Someone using a car all day every day in there £20 tax a year should have to pay a lot more tax than someone who has £500 tax bill for getting their sports car out every few weekends.
Because it's not a road fund license and never has been, at least not for 80 years How does the Co2 emissions bar any resemblement on how much tax you have to pay?
Someone using a car all day every day in there £20 tax a year should have to pay a lot more tax than someone who has £500 tax bill for getting their sports car out every few weekends.
it's an environmental tax, historically it was a tax on car ownership, when owning your own car was an expensive luxury, and something of a nuisance to others.
AIUI, there's no difference now to how it was before. You only got a refund on full, not partial months. The new tax-diskless-system-introduction is a bit of a red herring here. The only real difference is that you get the refund, if there is one, when you sell the car. How many folk would have left the tax on anyway so, if anything, might end up a little bit better off when the refund comes through.
I assume this petition is in fact about Vehicle Excise Duty?
Scoff if you may, but there is a very, very obvious official response to a petition about something that doesn't exist, especially when you try to clarify things by explaining that you actually mean this other thing that no longer exists. A response that will probably leave the petitioners feeling like they've wasted their time...
Scoff if you may, but there is a very, very obvious official response to a petition about something that doesn't exist, especially when you try to clarify things by explaining that you actually mean this other thing that no longer exists. A response that will probably leave the petitioners feeling like they've wasted their time...
55palfers said:
mattcov said:
Rather it was scrapped and stuck on fuel price instead.
Agree. Save a fortune in admin, no scroaty offenders not paying, tax paid directly related to actual amount of emissions caused.But that's too simple isn't it.
ks to that 
smn159 said:
55palfers said:
mattcov said:
Rather it was scrapped and stuck on fuel price instead.
Agree. Save a fortune in admin, no scroaty offenders not paying, tax paid directly related to actual amount of emissions caused.But that's too simple isn't it.
ks to that to3m said:
I assume this petition is in fact about Vehicle Excise Duty?
Scoff if you may, but there is a very, very obvious official response to a petition about something that doesn't exist, especially when you try to clarify things by explaining that you actually mean this other thing that no longer exists. A response that will probably leave the petitioners feeling like they've wasted their time...
I'm quite sure you'd be understood calling it by any one of a number of names.Scoff if you may, but there is a very, very obvious official response to a petition about something that doesn't exist, especially when you try to clarify things by explaining that you actually mean this other thing that no longer exists. A response that will probably leave the petitioners feeling like they've wasted their time...
In fact the Government site doesn't appear to contain any reference to calling it VED. I'm all for consistency and pedantry but I think your concern may be misplaced.
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables
55palfers said:
mattcov said:
Rather it was scrapped and stuck on fuel price instead.
Agree. Save a fortune in admin, no scroaty offenders not paying, tax paid directly related to actual amount of emissions caused.But that's too simple isn't it.
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