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Feb 21st, 2024, 16:20 | #11 | |
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Feb 21st, 2024, 16:26 | #12 |
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May I chime in as this really gets my blood pressure up...
Part of your training to become a collector of taxes is to take a healthy portion of simple and fair, add a little sprinkle of logic, place them into a centrifuge for several years and, once properly blended together, eject the contents out into the depths of space. Why? Because there is way too much revenue being generated from our archaic tax systems and we're bound by law to comply. Take a look at the Irish road tax system if you're in need of a good laugh. My '15 reg V70 for example is £30 pa in the UK which equates to €270 pa when brought across the Irish sea. Had it been registered here prior to Brexit it would be €200 pa...now work that one out! Not sure about the UK but over here the Greens have shot themselves in the foot. We now have heavier cars doing more damage to the infrastructure, with possibly more miles being covered than ever before, paying less or zero road tax with the population growing exponentially. They could have introduced a simple blanket tax on all new and old private vehicles, let's say 100 gourds per vehicle, and those of us burning up precious fossil fuels pay an additional excise at the pump. But no...that would be way too simple, fair and logic wave of their pen.
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As I mentioned earlier, I personally think vehicles should be taxed based on their weight and mileage per annum. So a person that does massive mileage per year pays more than the person that does little mileage. The person driving a close-to 3 tonne SUV pays more and continues to pay significantly more road tax for as long as they own the car than the little old lady in her non-ulez compliant Nissan Micra who only tootles to the shops three times a week. It would be fairly easy, in theory, to have a "pay per mile" system... those that are on the road more pay more and those in bigger heavy vehicles pay more for example. All mileage is recorded at the MOT each year, just use that to calculate how many miles a vehicle has done in the year. The weights of the cars are on the V5's anyway, it wouldn't be that difficult. They already have the info.
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Intersting discussion man, thanks. |
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