New DVLA fee plans to raise £130m
Industry concern at DVLA plans to empty motorists' wallets
As if we don't pay enough, the DVLA plans to charge for administering change of keeper, for driving licence renewal and an annual vehicle registration fee, which could raise £130 million. Motoring industry body the SMMT has taken -- well, a mildly tough line in response to the Government's request for responses to its proposals.
Drivers should not be forced to fund upgrades to DVLA systems or the renewal of photo licences. That's the line taken by the SMMT in response to the DVLA's fee proposals, currently out for consultation. The Society goes on to criticise the licensing body for failing to absorb costs by improving efficiency.
SMMT chief executive Christopher Macgowan said, 'This doesn't make sense. No business would survive if it passed the costs of going online to the customer, so why does the DVLA think this is acceptable?
'The government takes £4.4 billion a year in road tax and just got an extra
£32.5 million from last year's massive hike in the new car registration fee.
Continuous licensing also means fewer road tax dodgers and more income. So where is all the extra money going?'
The DVLA plans to increase income include:
- The introduction of a 'change of keeper' fee set at anything up to £7.50, for the 7.5 million used car transactions each year.
- Ten year photo card licence renewal set at a cost of around £19.00.
- An annual registration fee for the UK's 29 million cars of between £2.50 and £4.50, generating an additional £130 million.
Christopher Macgowan added, 'the introduction of photo licences should be delivering benefits to society through reduced crime. If there were cost implications, the process should have been subject to an impact assessment.
With proper scrutiny, the industry believes that costs could have been absorbed without hitting drivers in the pocket.'
Last year, DVLA raised a record £74.9 million from the sale of personalised number plates.
So now we have to queue twice as long at a post office twice as far away, pay daft council car park fee's, just to send notification and fee of change of ownership, only to get a fine for the post office not sending it through the 7 days "blink of an eye" period we get these days.
Wonder if you'll have to pay the change of owenership fee if it's written off too?
Damn this country and it's stupid fooking tax system!
Dave
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How about we all drive to Swansea and block the roads around the DVLA facility until someone realises that motorists will not keep taking these taxes. Only problem with that is the amount of tax the government would collect from me from the petrol to get there.
The Government should be releasing funds from the road fund licence to cover any shortfall.
Standard typical Government move. Use major shock tactics with a proposal that is over the top. Eventually the whole thing is watered down but it goes through with everybody thinking well it wasn't as bad as it could have beeen.
Ahrrrrr.
hartge bob said:There is no charge for SORN but I know what you mean!
Buy a car - get taxed (VAT)
insure a car - get taxed (IPT)
fuel a car - get taxed (VAT)
use a car on the road - get taxed (VED)
don't use a car on the road - get taxed (SORN charge)
sell a car because you can't afford all the tax - get taxed
FourWheelDrift said:
Big question is, Why do they want to raise an extra £130million of revenue?
What will it be used for, on or indeed given to?
It will pay for the ever growing band of Quangoites......the've just invented a new quango to oversee the New gaming laws and giant casinos run by the mafia (an american Quango) I propose that we have a more transparent way of supporting the quangoites........the zoos do it, you pay a fee by bankers order to sponsor/support an animal that's expensive to keep!......we do the same for quangoites. You get a picture of your quangoite sitting supping tea in a plush office.........like seals eating fish!
Now we all (including me) seem to sit back moan and accept tax theft in its various disguises.
What happened to the lorry drivers protests this year.
The French would'nt have any of this that we poke up with. Pi55ed off
It's just yet another typical Labour wheeze to come up with another tax revenue stream. They have never in our history ever claimed to be the "party of low taxation."
andyps said:
How about we all drive to Swansea and block the roads around the DVLA facility until someone realises that motorists will not keep taking these taxes. Only problem with that is the amount of tax the government would collect from me from the petrol to get there.
I'm up for that.
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