Car Tax Disc to be axed after 93 years!

[manca]

Originally Posted by The_Laird

Yeh, I worked in the public sector for 7 or 8 months (I'll remain silent on which bit of it) and saw those 'office procedures' first hand. They consist of doing work that has no real output or value but that gets passed on to someone else to rework and pass on again. Eventually it comes back to the originator and the cycle starts anew.

And I'm not kidding or exagerating!

Having worked in the Public Sector for 27 years (and proud of it) my experiences do not match yours.

[Lee S]

I was under the impression that very little of the vehicle excise duty went on the roads. It just goes into the coffers and gets used for multiple other things aside from the upkeep of the roads. Road tax was abolished in the 1920s or 30s and VED is now just a tax on owning a vehicle rather than a tax for using the roads. That's how I saw it anyway.

[Dezzy]

Originally Posted by Lee S

I was under the impression that very little of the vehicle excise duty went on the roads. It just goes into the coffers and gets used for multiple other things aside from the upkeep of the roads. Road tax was abolished in the 1920s or 30s and VED is now just a tax on owning a vehicle rather than a tax for using the roads. That's how I saw it anyway.

+1
And is why that matey had reason to hold back payment, on the grounds we are engaged in an illegal war so by willingly paying tax you were contributing toward the funding of said war.
I'm sure it's been talked about before here just can't remember the name of his website....... Projectfreeman

[notorious]

Nice, but no time to read everything...

Can I remove the damn disc from my windscreen now?
If not, starting from what date can I remove the disc from windscreen?

Thanks.

[mannyo]

October next year is when its phased out and you no longer need to display, up till then is business as usual.

[Goran]

Originally Posted by manca

Having worked in the Public Sector for 27 years (and proud of it) my experiences do not match yours.

Having worked for a University for 13 years (which is practically like public sector) and having had to deal with the public sector, I can reveal that 90% of non-lecturer jobs in a University are completely pointless and simply exist to serve convoluted government policies.
I am happy to say if these pointless policies did not exist I would not have a job.
Bring back ship-building!

[Lee S]

...or pyramid building... That's more worthwhile...

Great... my tax expires in Nov 14, so I won't need to bother with a new disc... damn... just fitted a nice brand new Magnetax disc holder too.

[HPsauce]

I just got a nice new adhesive tax disc holder from Autoglass when they replaced my Focus windscreen on Wednesday.
My Audi one seems to be the original curly plastic thing from the dealer that first sold it.

[manca]

Originally Posted by Goran

Having worked for a University for 13 years (which is practically like public sector) and having had to deal with the public sector, I can reveal that 90% of non-lecturer jobs in a University are completely pointless and simply exist to serve convoluted government policies.
I am happy to say if these pointless policies did not exist I would not have a job.
Bring back ship-building!

I can't imagine spending 13 years doing something pointless, but each to their own.

[David's8]

Maybe this forum/A8 Parts could produce a forum membership disc to replace the tax disc? Then those with new disc-holders wouldnt need to throw them out.
Our german friends at A8 Freunde have a neat "www.a8freunde.com" sticker which does the same thing. It lets people know where they can catch up with similar, like minded people..... if thats a good thing?

One for The Laird perhaps? We could hand them out at the summer meet.