Does the new vehicle tax system earn more cash for the UK government

Patrick McLoughlin

There have been many complaints that the new UK vehicle tax system is providing the government with extra revenue because when a vehicle is purchased the new owner is no longer allowed to benefit if there is any period of tax left to run before it expires. The new UK vehicle tax system came into […]

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Car Tax Fiasco

Tax Disc

The new car tax rules came into force on 1 October 2014 but it seems that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) online system was unable to cope, leaving thousands of their customers unable to renew their car tax. The DVLA said that their website had seen “an unprecedented volume of traffic”, the result […]

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Tax Disc Paper Runs Out

Tax Disc

Motorists in the UK will not be required to display a paper tax disc in their vehicle from 1st October 2014, amusingly the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has run out of its own supply of specially perforated tax disc paper a little early and has been forced to resort to printing tax discs […]

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Diesel drivers “betrayed and misled”

diesel

After breaching the limits for air pollution Britain is to be penalised by the European Commission and diesel vehicles are being blamed for the problem, now Britain is under more pressure from the EU to reduce the levels of pollution in our cities. As a direct result of this pressure the Mayor of London, Boris […]

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End of the road for the tax disc

Tax

After 93 years the tax disc is to be scrapped and replaced with an electronic system, Chancellor George Osborne has announced in the Autumn Statement. First introduced in 1921, the tax disc displayed proof that the motorist had paid the vehicle excise duty. Vehicle taxation was actually introduced in the 1888 budget, although vehicle excise […]

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