
The abolition of every car and van in the UK needing to display a car tax disc has led to the tripling of the number of untaxed cars and soaring prosecutions and fines for drivers, according to the latest annual report of the DVLA, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
The scale of the problem led to a report from the new auditor general, Gareth Davies, to be attached to its annual accounts this year after the agency’s previous unblemished record in collecting car tax became tarnished.
Up to 2014 when the car tax disc was abolished the agency collected up to 99.6 per cent of revenue. Since then the figure has fallen to 98.2 per cent – which might seem small – but is equivalent to an additional 500,000 vehicles evading tax. It is happening because people are telling the DVLA their vehicle is stored off the road but are continuing to use it.
The full story is on Byline Times here.
a neighbour along the road – drives a lowloader Car Transporter – His house has been attacked 3 times by irate Drivers looking for their Cars in just over a Year
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Should we be surprised? Joe Bloggs could have predicted this.
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Typical of our Government’s policies – they have not worked out that ‘saving you a penny today, costs a pound tomorrow’.
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i’m not allowed to drive anyway….but with no paper receipt/ tax disc or anything….how can you dispute it? Even if we had an actual legal system……
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