DVLA will offer motorists the ability to spread their vehicle tax payments should they wish to do so. For vehicle tax starting from 1 November 2014, motorists will be able to pay vehicle tax by direct debit annually, biannually or monthly. There will be no additional handling fees for annual payments but to limit the impact on the public finances there will be a small surcharge of 5% of vehicle tax for biannual and monthly payments. This is half of the 10% surcharge that is currently applied to 6 monthly tax discs and which has been in existence for a number of decades. 56 TDV8 Vogue SE
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Interesting. Over here, it's totally different. Road tax and number plate go with the OWNER, not the car.
New plates, insurance and tax are a matter of course when purchasing a car.
Our number plates don't reflect the age of the car either.
The greedy b ards part, though, is still EXACTLY the same!

So, never again will we see the clichéd advertising phrase "taxed and tested until...".

Is the 24/7 telephone facility for tax renewal freephone then!

In the old days the Netherlands already had the automatic refund system on road tax. They probably still do. Having to do it "manually" is a guarantee for the government to make more money, it must be done on purpose to benefit from people forgetting or to save cost on doing the refunds (although it can be automated almost completely I'm sure).

I don't like that type of attitude, it smacks of knowingly screwing people over and any government doing that is not worth its salt to me. MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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Belgium has auto refund for return of number plate.
When transferring the plate to another car with a different taxation level then you either receive a bill for an increase or a refund if decreased.

this all ads to the problem of when you are seeling a car to buy another privately. you have to basically sell and rid your old, before changing over details to new car. you can't now leave it out on the street while the new car resides on your drive as the insurance is with the new car, you cant test drive it, or anything. -how do motor traders without trade plates deal with this? -however, it is ridding the roads of people that buy a 12months taxed and moted car, to drive unregisteresd, all over the place, and run off annoymously. leaving it full of parking tickets.
Trust me, it wont be long before traffic lights have ANPR's fitted, with pop up stinger spikes, and cars have rush hour curfews, unless paying 'go to work' premiums, and gps tracking, and a tazer wired to the seatbase, if you go over 30mph!

The tazer wired seat base may prompt a certain type of people to actually speed up over 30 mph I'm sure  MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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Re ^^
There was a BBC News story a few months ago about development of some sort of electrical pulse weapon that would shut down a car. They specially said that it would react with the onboard computers and "wouldn't work on a thirty year old Land Rover." Series III Landie anyone? At least they had synchromesh.

 MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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RR2008HSE wrote:

Re ^^
There was a BBC News story a few months ago about development of some sort of electrical pulse weapon that would shut down a car. They specially said that it would react with the onboard computers and "wouldn't work on a thirty year old Land Rover." Series III Landie anyone? At least they had synchromesh.

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