Tax dodge crackdown? Er,... not quite
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From the Telegraph:
Motorists are to be hit with automatic £80 fines under a new crackdown on car tax dodgers... They will get two weeks to renew their tax discs after they expire - otherwise the fine will be posted to them. Persistent non-payers will be prosecuted and fined a minimum of £1,000... The fines, which come into force in January, will be issued on the basis of computerised tax records. There will be no need for police or cameras to spot unlicensed vehicles.
There are estimated to be about one million unlicensed vehicles on the road. The Government says these are frequently abandoned, are involved in criminal activity and often uninsured.
So... Go on holiday for 3 weeks, £80 fine. Get taken ill and spend a month in hospital, £80 fine. Car spends a month in the garage awaiting parts for its MOT, £80 fine.
Drive around in an untaxed, uninsured and unroadworthy car that isn't registered in your name - no worries mate.
I'm very much in favour of cracking down on scrotes who drive around untaxed/uninsured and drive off from petrol stations without paying. But if the Govt wanted to encourage people NOT to let DVLA know of a change of owner, they couldn't come up with a better idea than this.
Motorists are to be hit with automatic £80 fines under a new crackdown on car tax dodgers... They will get two weeks to renew their tax discs after they expire - otherwise the fine will be posted to them. Persistent non-payers will be prosecuted and fined a minimum of £1,000... The fines, which come into force in January, will be issued on the basis of computerised tax records. There will be no need for police or cameras to spot unlicensed vehicles.
There are estimated to be about one million unlicensed vehicles on the road. The Government says these are frequently abandoned, are involved in criminal activity and often uninsured.
So... Go on holiday for 3 weeks, £80 fine. Get taken ill and spend a month in hospital, £80 fine. Car spends a month in the garage awaiting parts for its MOT, £80 fine.
Drive around in an untaxed, uninsured and unroadworthy car that isn't registered in your name - no worries mate.
I'm very much in favour of cracking down on scrotes who drive around untaxed/uninsured and drive off from petrol stations without paying. But if the Govt wanted to encourage people NOT to let DVLA know of a change of owner, they couldn't come up with a better idea than this.
madcop said: Remember the last lot of gun controls?
Do I need to say any more
p.s. other than is there anyone at the Puzzle Palace with any real brains or ideas that will work for once?
Have you been at the toilet duck madcop - brains in westminster? Yeah right. God I wish this was funny....
Drive around in an untaxed, uninsured and unroadworthy car that isn't registered in your name - no worries mate.
Of course thats no problem ... its so much easier to persecute those who actually obey the law and play by the rules than it is to actually catch those who are breaking it.
Of course thats no problem ... its so much easier to persecute those who actually obey the law and play by the rules than it is to actually catch those who are breaking it.
Anyone got an cheap car I can have, don't want to bother registering it, could just stick some made up plates on it. Need to save money on tax/insurance/mot etc. Come on guys help me out, don't want to go speeding in it 'onest. Might park on the odd yellow lines but "hey what the hell ehh."
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