Tax by day not month petition

PerryGunn said:
That's a very non-committal response - typical MD, can't give a straight answer... :wink:
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Well I'm not an MD I'm an engineer, I could bore everybody with my own explanation of exponential rates. It's not rocket science, oh hang on, maybe it is in a sense. Whatever. A=Be^c, that's the best I can do on an iPod keyboard. :D

Anyhow, back on thread, spread the word about the car tax issue :)
 
signed too but i dont see how it is any different than it was before if your buying from a dealer where you generally have to buy tax too. when i bought the z i got it the last week of may so i lost most of mays tax anyway...

i guess private sales will be affected or people will generally buy cars the first week of a month and not the last
 
It isn't any different, but now they CAN do it by day as it's all done electronically, not with a disc.

They WON'T do it though because they'd lose too much money.
 
ben g said:
It isn't any different, but now they CAN do it by day as it's all done electronically, not with a disc.

They WON'T do it though because they'd lose too much money.
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maybe in another 93 years then :D
 
Dave Gorman is talking about these e-petitions on his show now. Sounds like this is doing better than others. The U.S. Government has a similar thing and peeps over there managed to illicit a response on why they are not building a Death Star!!
 
domsz4 said:
signed too but i dont see how it is any different than it was before if your buying from a dealer where you generally have to buy tax too. when i bought the z i got it the last week of may so i lost most of mays tax anyway...

i guess private sales will be affected or people will generally buy cars the first week of a month and not the last
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Problem is if you are selling one car and buying another it makes no difference when in the month it is. Effectively you have to tax both cars for the same month. Only way round it is to sell on the last day of the month and buy on the first, buts virtually impossible to organise.
 
Would this mean you could tax your car for 1 day? Or 1 weekend?
The admin costs would be huge as people would only tax their car for the days they used it. Coupled with the loss of revenue, this ain't gonna happen.
 
Talksthetorque said:
Would this mean you could tax your car for 1 day? Or 1 weekend?
The admin costs would be huge as people would only tax their car for the days they used it. Coupled with the loss of revenue, this ain't gonna happen.
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No I don't thin so, more if you taxed you car on the 9 October the tax should expire on the 8 October the following year. If you sorn from the 9 October then you should get 22 days refund from October and just from November onwards.
 
Talksthetorque said:
Would this mean you could tax your car for 1 day? Or 1 weekend?
The admin costs would be huge as people would only tax their car for the days they used it. Coupled with the loss of revenue, this ain't gonna happen.
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What admin cost is this? It's all automated now.

Do you think someone personally types out a confirmation email everytime you buy tax?
 
Posted on 1/2 series forum which has alot of active members hopefully we can get a few more signatures :)
 
ben g said:
Talksthetorque said:
Would this mean you could tax your car for 1 day? Or 1 weekend?
The admin costs would be huge as people would only tax their car for the days they used it. Coupled with the loss of revenue, this ain't gonna happen.
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What admin cost is this? It's all automated now.

Do you think someone personally types out a confirmation email everytime you buy tax?
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Yes, and I think that there are lots of little people in my television. :P


Do you think that the automated solution is magicked up by fairies at the bottom of the garden and is entirely self maintaining? I'm sure you're smarter than that.
If you can start and cancel it on a daily basis instead of a monthly , what's to stop people taxing every Friday and sorning every Monday for their fun car, and the reverse for their work car? Or even daily?

Someone will then bring an app out to sorn and unsorn your car, and it will be a huge success.

The Infrastructure costs of a system to cope with say 1 million cars a day sorning or unsorning would not be insignificant.
There are 35 million cars taxed in the UK
Even if just 3% did it every day that's 1 million cars . Do you leave the TV on when you go on
Holiday? Would you leave your car taxed?
So your government has to cope with both the loss in revenue as people pick and choose when to tax their car, plus the extra IT to support this.

If they don't get the money this way they get it another .
They might decide to introduce a Forum tax :cry: with double price if your username has no capital letters :o

I don't agree with VED as a concept, but if the price was to go up because of this, we use both our cars almost daily and would suffer more. It would also hit other necessity users and benefit lifestyle users, and that's very very poor form.
 
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