Today Sees The End To The Paper Tax Disc, Good Idea Or Not?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11131843/Tax-discs-scrapped-penalty-fears-for-innocent-drivers.html

[ummmm]

Yes, good idea.

[jno]

it means cars can be taxed twice, because the new owner has to pay tax from day one but the old owner won't get a refund for any unused days in the month. The government say they won't make much money out of this. The car owner might think it's theft, though.

[naomi24]

Not a good idea. I'd rather have my 'proof of purchase' stuck to my windscreen.

[jno]

and obviously the website's crashed, don't they always

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/dvla-website-buckles-under-pressure-of-new-online-vehicle-tax-renewals

[magicmick]

Just done mine this morning no fuss no hassle, no need for mot insurance no disc just recipt 2 mins.

[ummmm]

I'm a 'last minute' type of person. It suits people like me.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/car-tax-disc-changes-five-facts-you-never-knew-about-your-almost-obsolete-tax-disc-9765190.html

[sunny-dave]

"obviously the website's crashed"

Well of course it has - a blind man with a defective guide dog could still have seen that coming.

What sort of plank waits until the first morning of a new system to carry out a vital, time-critical, transaction - when they could have done it at any time over the last three weeks - when the website has been functioning quite properly.

[ FWIW I still think that abolishing the paper disc is daft ]

[ummmm]

Me Dave, that would be me :-)

[anotheoldgit]

I never understood why I had to display a free tax disc on my mobility scooter?

[hc4361]

Jno, it has always been the case that the DVLA only refund full months, not part.

[hc4361]

AOG, because until today it was an offence not to display a disc if the vehicle needed one, free or not.

[237SJ]

One disadvantage that I can see is that members of the public will be less inclined to report dumped vehicles to the council because it won`t be obvious that the vehicle is untaxed.

[ummmm]

You only have to put in the reg.

[vulcan42]

I don't like it and I've mentioned this before without anybody, including the police I've spoken to, giving me a satisfactory answer. If you are involved in an accident you will no longer be able to compare tax disc and number plates. What with computers going down, being too busy and not having the right phone at the time, what do we do, call the police for every little bump? That's not going to save a lot of money.

[Playbill]

How easy it is going to be to simply note a car the same year and colour as your own, buy a pair of number plates, stick them on and wave two fingers at the ANPR cameras? I just pity the poor suckers whose plates have been cloned and will receive all the fines, speeding tickets and congestion charge penalties.

About time number plates were made and issued by one official agency as in most other - if not all - other countries.

[ToraToraTora]

good idea though car cloning will be easier.

[Old_Geezer]

From past experience even if a car is properly taxed idiot members of the public will report a classic car as being dumped despite it's good condition; and even more moronic council workers will simply accept the lie without checking and "vandalise" the car by putting a large dayglow sticker on on the owner's pride and joy, claiming that the car is dumped. Maybe that'll reduce the number of those incidents. Although maybe getting applicants for council jobs to pass an IQ test with a pass mark of at least double figures would work as well.

That said I too prefer a proof of purchase visible.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah cloning. Should be compulsory for any vehicle entering a so called "congestion area" where you are robbed of cash to pay for the road you have already paid for many times over.

[bazwillrun]

Its a disgrace that it cant be carried on to a new owner when a car is sold.
But i suppose as usual in this country we'll just roll over and accept it.....