Apologies if this has topic been already posted (I searched for a thread on it but couldn't find one).
www.fbhvc.co.uk/homepage.htm
If this was a fee for change of ownership / actual updating of records etc, then that would be perfectly fair enough to charge a fee for services rendered. Unfortunately it isn't - it's an 'annual administration fee', just for having a car in their records!!!
The justification is that it will subsidise the cost of new vehicle registrations. which is hardly a fair thing to do - those who can afford to buy a new car can easily afford the initial registration fee, plain and simple.
The issue of most concern is that it is extremely likely to be used as a back door way of introducing continuous licensing for all registered cars, irrelevant of whether they are in use or SORNed....
What also concerns me is how an admin charge can possibly be justified for the DVLA basically doing nothing other than keeping the existing records (which is what they are supposed to do anyway!).
IMO, this proposal is little more than blackmail. I hope that the DVLA see sense, and don't introduce it. Not only will it make them very unpopular, I also suspect that it will lead directly to a large increase in the number of cars which aren't registered, which is presumably what they are trying to avoid in the first place.
Effective measures taken to deal with those who don't register cars in their name or drive without insurance / MOT / Tax etc would be a far better idea. Instead, they seem to have chosen to penalise innocent, law abiding citizens, whilst the guilty continue to escape punishment.
www.fbhvc.co.uk/homepage.htm
If this was a fee for change of ownership / actual updating of records etc, then that would be perfectly fair enough to charge a fee for services rendered. Unfortunately it isn't - it's an 'annual administration fee', just for having a car in their records!!!
The justification is that it will subsidise the cost of new vehicle registrations. which is hardly a fair thing to do - those who can afford to buy a new car can easily afford the initial registration fee, plain and simple.
The issue of most concern is that it is extremely likely to be used as a back door way of introducing continuous licensing for all registered cars, irrelevant of whether they are in use or SORNed....
What also concerns me is how an admin charge can possibly be justified for the DVLA basically doing nothing other than keeping the existing records (which is what they are supposed to do anyway!).
IMO, this proposal is little more than blackmail. I hope that the DVLA see sense, and don't introduce it. Not only will it make them very unpopular, I also suspect that it will lead directly to a large increase in the number of cars which aren't registered, which is presumably what they are trying to avoid in the first place.
Effective measures taken to deal with those who don't register cars in their name or drive without insurance / MOT / Tax etc would be a far better idea. Instead, they seem to have chosen to penalise innocent, law abiding citizens, whilst the guilty continue to escape punishment.