According to this article, there are half a million untaxed cars on the road. Makes me wonder why. |Is it because they can't get tax because of lack of insurance and/od MOT, or is it that people just cannot afford it? https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/...1378ba72&ei=25
Untaxed cars
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08-12-23 17:19I have read that a lot of people who have £0 tax vehicles don't realise that they still need to "tax" their cars every year by going through the official processes. Perhaps they make up a decent proportion?
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08-12-23 23:10@Rolebama
The rate across the UK as a whole is 1.3 per cent, which doesn't sound quite so alarming. I suspect that a great many of them are not MOT'd or insured either. A young man in his mid-twenties has to find two or three thousand pounds to insure even a mundane car. It's not surprising that many of them are prepared to take the risk. -
13-12-23 20:36Some individuals may struggle to afford vehicle taxes due to financial constraints. Some people may not be aware that they need to renew their vehicle tax or may not understand the consequences of driving without tax. There could be cases where individuals face issues with the renewal process, such as not receiving a reminder or facing difficulties in updating their details. In some cases, individuals might intentionally avoid paying taxes for their vehicles, perhaps due to a desire to evade legal obligations or financial difficulties.
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15-12-23 22:20@Rolebama Whatever happened to the idea to drop road tax and just add it to the cost of petrol. You drive, you pay; big car, you pay more.
Always seemed a good idea, but of course with the rise of EV's it won't work now. -
16-12-23 08:06
Apart from anything else, it would have meant cutting the size of the DVLA, with huge job losses in South Wales. A political hot potato. -
16-12-23 12:04I did wonder if they could be side-tracked into a department which would monitor SORNs, road tax and MOT status similar to the way TV Licences are checked.
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16-12-23 17:39
AFAIK they already do that, and I imagine it doesn't need a lot of human intervention. The system identifies cars where the VED is overdue, and/or no insurance, and spits out a letter offering an out-of-court settlement. -
17-12-23 10:21
It was never adopted because it would have unfairly discriminated against rural communities who have to drive longer distances to access shops, etc.
Naturally, all the MPs in rural constituencies would vote it down. -
18-12-23 15:38@Santa
Surely that "discrimination" is already the case with the 75% of what we spend on fuel being tax?
That said, another issue would be discrimination against the disabled, who get a 50% or 100% discount on their VED, would be hard to price that in to the cost of fuel.
