New road tax system

GMES · Dec 30, 2015

So I Receive a reminder yesterday telling me both the vans were due at the beginning of December and this is my last chance to pay before I presume I get fined. My question is have I missed the original letter or do they not remind you now when it is due, Are we now expected to remember when it's due for renewal. Also how come if it was due at the beginning that they have allowed until the end of december without a fine.

I miss the tax disc already, it was much easier having a constant reminder in the windscreen.

Octopus · Dec 30, 2015

I think the tax disc should be reintroduced ASAP - I'm still displaying the "expired" one!

GMES · Dec 30, 2015

I still don't know though whether they expect us to know when it's due or if they still notify you when it's due Clive can you shine any light on it.

Octopus · Dec 30, 2015

Even though we received the reminder for the misses car last month for the December renewal, I only remembered the tax disc on the 18th of December - nice and easy on line - but why can't they just send out a tax disc?

I think this change is assuming everybody has the vehicle registered at the correct address and we are all law abiding!

tazz · Dec 30, 2015

Pay mine monthly by DD, easier option

Blademan_98 · Dec 30, 2015

tazz said:
Pay mine monthly by DD, easier option

Me too so no reminder required. You just keep paying until you get rid of the vehicle.

GMES · Dec 30, 2015

The thing that I find strange is I have been driving for a month with no tax and have not been pulled once or fined so it does seem like a flawed system. I could understand if having failed to tax it that it then went onto the database and triggered anpr's etc but it seems it is going to work in the favour of the tax dodgers, while the honest drivers keep paying when they could probably not bother.

Blademan_98 · Dec 30, 2015

I reported two cars parked outside my house that (according to the gov website) were SORN. Three weeks later they clamped the remaining vehicle and the owner must have paid the fine because they released it the next day!!!
It's a farce really.

GMES · Dec 30, 2015

That's the thing with the tax disc in a windscreen it shows you what you need to know, Don't get me wrong I know technology advances and I am all for that but why try to fix something that isn't broke unless of course you're a Plumber.

newtothis · Dec 30, 2015

Very expensive specialist job to print tax discs.
I wonder what they'll blow the money they saved on.

uksparks · Dec 30, 2015

I pay by DD, set it up and forget about it.

hightower · Dec 30, 2015

If you ask me, the tax disc way was archaic and should have been scrapped years, if not decades, ago. New system is much easier even if it means we're gonna have to drag a few people kicking and screaming. And yes, we certainly are a nation of moaners.

davesparks · Dec 30, 2015

hightower said:
If you ask me, the tax disc way was archaic and should have been scrapped years, if not decades, ago. New system is much easier even if it means we're gonna have to drag a few people kicking and screaming. And yes, we certainly are a nation of moaners.

But it worked, the new system is no better, and possibly a little worse.

hightower · Dec 30, 2015

davesparks said:
But it worked, the new system is no better, and possibly a little worse.

My dad's 15th edition board works too, but we all know there are improvements in store to be had. Yeah the new tax system hasn't been without its teething problems, but it's definitely a step in the right direction in my eyes.