The Camaro Club (UK)

Well no more Tax discs which is a good thing, but what I don't understand is why the tax runs from the beginning of the month , everything else does. Insurance starts and finishes on the day you take it out. MOT starts and finishes on the day it's tested so why can't the Tax. Just another rip off when you sell or buy a car.

Rant over

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Cheers Gerry

Absolutely agree. The government is literally double taxing people. For example, you pay your tax today, for October, decide to sell your car and someone buys it tomorrow... you don't get back your tax for October as it's only full months that are refunded. The tax isn't passed onto the new owner, so they have to pay for Octobers tax. So the government has received tax twice for the same car. What a f*cking joke. How can this have been passed as law?

Some people may say it's because it's related to the driver... well, as most of us on here own 2 or 3 cars, then why are we paying 2 or 3 taxes? If it's related to the driver, you should just have to pay tax once, then it covers all of the cars registered and driven by you. Seeing as road tax is to do with emissions and not road maintenance (side rant... so what exactly are they doing with that money to 'offset' the carbon emissions? nothing, absolutely nothing) (side, side rant, this is also a forced tax on beliefs because i do not believe that emissions are harming the environment... not to the extent that the governments make out anyway, it's just a guilt trip tax and i shouldn't be forced to pay a tax for a belief i do not hold). Back to the point of being related to the driver, you can only drive one car at a time, so why do you need to pay for more that one road tax as you can't emit emissions at the same time from the cars you own (unless you just let them sit at idle on your driveway at the same time, but to do that you'd have to be as dumb as the people enforcing the double taxation and emissions tax).

Rant also over.

p.s who received a letter about this change? Oh that's right, no one, so the public have been ill informed but can be fined. What genius' we have attempting to run the country.

mega rant over.

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They will make an estimated extra £70,000,000 annually by forcing people to return their tax everytime they sell a car, not to mention its now Impossible to buy a car and drive it away there and then. If I take out insurance it takes a few days to register on the database meaning I can't tax a vehicle for a few days after I pay for it, so you would need to view the car, test drive it, pay for it then leave it where you brought it until your insurance is sorted or trailer it home, what if the seller doesn't have a driveway ? As soon as he fills in the logbook that he has sold it its not taxed anymore and can't be taxed until the buyer gets his insurance sorted, so if its parked on the road unsorned and untaxed then it can be towed away by plod ? Is the buyer responsible for keeping an unsorned and untaxed vehicle on a public highway? Typically badly thought out governbent shite as usual. On the plus side I'm expecting to see an improvement in my 1/4 mile time now I don't have to keep that pesky heavy bit of paper in the window and will no longer be able to impress the mrs as to which cars are repro and which is original using the tax discs to date them

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1997 30th Anniversary SS SLP
1993 GMC Typhoon

Wow, I hope they kiss you first before f**king you
Our system is far easier, we own the number plate. Sell your car, take the plate off. Buy a new car, put your plate on, As long as your plate has a valid tax sticker on it and you have phoned your insurance company, you're good to go

That sounds far too simple. No UK Government wants us to become part of the modern world, nor anything like a sensible world. There is far too much money at stake. All our archaic systems are kept to be as inefficient and near-useless as possible so the working public can be charged for it once (Via taxation) and then ultimately will have to pay for it again when they really need it by going private when they discover the state-run version is broken or non-existent.
Me, bitter? Nah. Much could be improved here if we took lessons from other countries.
Cheers, Martin

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