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What has Vehicle Excise got to do with fixing roads ?
It's a tax, not a payment for a service.

It was always Road Fund Licence until they decided to change the name

Yes, a fund paid into by people who use the road.

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and should be used for that purporse

The person paying a tax should decide how it's spent ? lol

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You will find alot does go on roads,

No, the Government funding allocated to be spent on roads goes on roads.

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and some councils still refer to RFL.

Ah, I see. How can anyone argue with such conclusive logic

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Lordy

#12

Apparently on date Fri, 21 May 2004 02:09:40 +0100, Lordy <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin>
said:

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make sure they recieve you SORN through the post, cus
apparently you dont get no conformation saying you have sent it.

Surely not getting no confirmation means that you *do* get a
confirmation

Anyway, you should do. I got one when I SORNed the Rover.

I didn't. I sent the form off to the right place, etc, but took photos of the
signed form and emailed dvla to say what I had done in case the letter went
missing (there being a threat of strike action and my posties being distinctly
Daley at the best of times). I never did get confirmation, but they emailed me
to say they'd done it on the computer so I doubt there's any risk there.

#13

¤¤¤ Abo ¤¤¤ wrote:

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Nom raved thus:

If 100% of your Road Tax was used for roads (instead of the current
10%) then the NHS/Police/Education/Everyone would suddenly have a
HUGE shortfall. Your other taxes would have to go up plenty, to
cover the billions of pounds that you've just removed from the
system !

Then tax appropriately. Reduce the road tax to £16.50 a year and
introduce taxes for the other stuff, when people use them. So if you
have no kids, or they go to a private school or whatever then you
don't pay an 'education tax', for example.

What would that achieve ?

The net result ends up being the same amount of money in the pot. But
parent's taxes (education tax) would go up astronomically, and they wouldn't
be able to afford it.

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Lol, I get private health care for my wife and I as a benefit from my
employer, so we'd only use the NHS in an emergency (or for a couple
of days recently when our son was born). So any other operations or
treatment we need is covered by this. But the Inland Revenue counts
this as a taxable benefit, so I'm in effect directly paying the
government *not* to use a service...

Yes, as you should be.
The NHS is payed for by everyone. Whether you choose it or not, is upto you.
But if you didn't pay for the service, then my costs would go up, to cover
the non-payers like you.

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¤¤¤ Abo ¤¤¤ wrote:

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Nom raved thus:
Yes, as you should be.
The NHS is payed for by everyone. Whether you choose it or not, is
upto you. But if you didn't pay for the service, then my costs would
go up, to cover the non-payers like you.

That's fairer then, yes?

Nope.

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