On Nov 9, 11:23*pm, Tim Streater wrote:
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*polygonum wrote:
On 09/11/2012 20:32, Andy Champ wrote:


They'll have a job finding a car that pays a road tax that is lower per
mile than the rep - unless it's a city biscuit box.

Tax on fuel would have the great advantage that they could dismantle all
the red tape involved in handling tax discs.

Andy

I don't think that is true. They will still want to know who the owner
is, etc. and the tax disc gives them the opportunity to try to force
that to be checked every year.

And also to check that the ****er has insurance.

Somebody that has no insurance won't bother with road tax anyway.
You could have a disc to show you had insurance.

But they want the private motorist to subsidise commerce.