General: Tax disc

[strbryan]

Originally Posted by RobbieH

OK, maybe I worded that wrong.

Why should any form of "tax" or "vehicle duty" be limited to those requiring the input of liquid fossil fuel? Electric cars / hybrids also emit CO2 albeit they hide it behind a pile of steaming poo in trying to claim to be "green".

Because our peoples choice government say so..

[DaveNP]

Checking the tax status of a car is fairly simple, google UK car tax checker, 6 clicks, type in the reg and select make, click and it's there on screen. Having said that I've never bothered to check any car before I've driven it.
The current legislation is for failing to display a (?valid?) disc, and I suspect that if the car was displaying a disc that had been revoked you'd still be in trouble (ANPR says the vehicle isn't taxed sir, would you accompany us to the station to discuss it), one might stand a chance with a magistrate if you could plead you had no knowledge that the disc was a dud. If it goes to a simple computer record the opportunity for DVLA to make a clerical error would worry me, I'd be inclined to pay online and print off everything ready for them to have some hope of showing my innocence.

[Marty Dolomite]

Originally Posted by cookie

fair comment, but round here, if its not sitting in a camera van, police seem to take little interest in uninsured cars, if monthly tax, and tax only valid if vehicle is insured, that would probably be even easier, as many vehicles get taxed by one person who has policy in the motor trade.

I assume either you are not insured or you know a large an mount of drivers that are not insured otherwise how do you know the police don't take any interest in them?

In most police cars you can not easily see the ANPR cameras and most if not all towns and cities have ANPR cameras posted are the main roads.