ChatterBank1 min ago
Road Tax is stupid
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I've just paid £233 for 6 months' tax.
I hardly ever use that car.
I can walk into town. I work from home. When I go to London, I frequently use the train.
If I drive at all, I more often take my little car.
I neither pollute the roads, nor put wear and tear on the roads.
Would it work to factor annual mileage into the cost of road tax?
I hardly ever use that car.
I can walk into town. I work from home. When I go to London, I frequently use the train.
If I drive at all, I more often take my little car.
I neither pollute the roads, nor put wear and tear on the roads.
Would it work to factor annual mileage into the cost of road tax?
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That's it, OG ... it's there when you want it.
Sometimes, on a hot day, it's nice to drive up to London with the roof off ... but not always.
Actually, I've got one of those annoying friends who could drive somewhere in a soft top car, through a hurricane, and she'd arrive looking tousled and sexy, and all the guys would fancy the pants off her ... and most of the women, too.
But the rest of us ... we get out of the car looking like we got mugged on the journey.
Sometimes, on a hot day, it's nice to drive up to London with the roof off ... but not always.
Actually, I've got one of those annoying friends who could drive somewhere in a soft top car, through a hurricane, and she'd arrive looking tousled and sexy, and all the guys would fancy the pants off her ... and most of the women, too.
But the rest of us ... we get out of the car looking like we got mugged on the journey.
Yes road tax *is* stupid - it's only in the last few years they've got to grips with the fact that some skint hippie in his 1/2 ton 600cc Citroen 2CV was paying the same as some fat toff in a 6 litre 3 ton Rolls Royce.
You can declare your knackered Merc SORN while you scrape the finances together to have its head gasket fixed, meanwhile the SORN "expires" and if you don't re-declare it SORN when the time sneaks up on you - it's an £80 fine ! Whadda load of old borlacks (rant ends)
You can declare your knackered Merc SORN while you scrape the finances together to have its head gasket fixed, meanwhile the SORN "expires" and if you don't re-declare it SORN when the time sneaks up on you - it's an £80 fine ! Whadda load of old borlacks (rant ends)
"I've just paid £233 for 6 months' tax".
JJ,
If you're hoping to recoup some of that money on the nags....ermmmm sorry....classy horsey tips you gave us at Folkestone racing today, you're in for a big surprise!.....and i aint talking about me stark naked in my woods either :0)
Leave the tips to Stokey :0)
JJ,
If you're hoping to recoup some of that money on the nags....ermmmm sorry....classy horsey tips you gave us at Folkestone racing today, you're in for a big surprise!.....and i aint talking about me stark naked in my woods either :0)
Leave the tips to Stokey :0)
"I've just paid £233 for 6 months' tax"
Do you think that you would spend more than £20 per week on taxis? If you don't need the car all the time, why keep it? My grandfather was pursuaded to give up driving and to use taxis on purely economic grounds (secretly, we were glad he was no longer a risk to himself or other road users!).
Do you think that you would spend more than £20 per week on taxis? If you don't need the car all the time, why keep it? My grandfather was pursuaded to give up driving and to use taxis on purely economic grounds (secretly, we were glad he was no longer a risk to himself or other road users!).
