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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328  
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Vehicle tax to no longer carry over to new owner
PROPOSALS to get rid of paper tax discs from October 1 this year will carry a sting in the tail for everyone buying a used vehicle after that date: they will have to tax it immediately instead of being able to take on the vehicle’s existing unexpired tax. While ostensibly a move to stop fraudsters, the tweak to the rules could lead to a windfall for the Treasury. The ‘Draft Clauses and Explanatory Notes’ for the proposed Finance Bill 2014 say: “…it will no longer be possible to transfer the benefit of a vehicle licence when there is a change of registered keeper. As a consequence of this, where there is a new registered keeper he/she will be obliged to take out a new vehicle licence when the vehicle to which the vehicle licence relates is transferred to him/her. The reason for now preventing vehicle licences being transferred from registered keeper to registered keeper is to avoid a new registered keeper unknowingly keeping an unlicensed vehicle. For example, in the absence of a paper licence a vehicle may be purchased supposedly with the benefit of a vehicle licence. The new keeper would believe that the vehicle was licensed, but the former keeper could apply for a refund of VED without the knowledge of the new keeper resulting on the new keeper having an unlicensed vehicle.” The reasoning makes a certain amount of sense, although the ability to instantly check any vehicle’s tax status online at the www.taxdisc.direct.gov website rather blows a hole in the idea that there’s no way the new keeper could tell whether his vehicle was taxed or not. A cynic might say that since you can only get refunded for complete remaining months of VED, the government stands to scrape up a lot of part-months of extra tax revenue. Official figures show that around 7 million used vehicles get a change of ownership each year. If, on average, each has half a month’s worth of VED remaining, that’s 3.5 million extra months of VED being paid each year. The equivalent of 291,666 years’ worth. If we estimate that the average annual VED cost per vehicle is Ł200 (a fair guess given the spread of rates), then that’s somewhere in the region of 58.3 million pounds windfall to the tax man. Every year. Not a bad haul, really. Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--...z2r2xhTeLo |
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21st Jan 2014 3:22pm |
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| Cheshire110 Member Since: 26 Jul 2013 Location: Cheshire/London Posts: 2755
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i think the US system works well. every year you provide proof of tax, MOT and insurance (or whatever theyre called over there) and you're issued with another year's number plate. simples. Cheers, David
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21st Jan 2014 4:20pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897  
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....and it keeps the inmates busy in the prison workshops.
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21st Jan 2014 4:36pm |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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Laurie
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21st Jan 2014 4:40pm |
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| SailingTom Member Since: 19 Nov 2013 Location: ESSEX Posts: 1722
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I might just be cynical, but as soon as I heard about that, the extra tax they would collect was my first thought aswell. As someone who changes cars yearly normally it does seem another way of them trying to get money without a lot of people noticing. What with all that and swapping plates over I wont bother changing as often as it seems they try to constantly find ways of taking 'easy' money. Having said that I appreciate they have to get the money in especially with the current financial climate, but wouldn't mind as much if they didn't put every thing else up aswell! Im sure the car tax price will only go up. Defender puma dormobile camper |
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21st Jan 2014 5:43pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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Swiss way is much much fairer ...
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21st Jan 2014 9:25pm |
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