Free Road Tax??

You get a tax disc, and its free of charge. Hence it is free road tax surely?

I hope you cuffed him upside the head.

To an extent I agree that all cars should pay tax, regardless. But that tax should be levied on a "pay as you drive" basis. This would be viable without "eye in the sky" Orwellian measures if fuel tax wasn't already so obscene.

you don't pay tax because you only use it at weekends? what?

your car was made before 1973, that's why you don't pay tax

if you're saying why doesn't the government charge tax then maybe it's because it is rarely used

Yes okay it is free, but we don't use the cars as much surely? Why should we have to pay the same prices? Yeah, I reckon Pog has it right. What I was getting at is that I don't use my car everyday (as my mate does) and I believe that I shouldn't have to pay 110 pound a year, for a vehicle I use only at weekends.

If a car has been on the road since 1973 then it's paid it's dues to the government in my eyes. That's how ever many cars, up till 1998 paying their way. Let em have it free, after all, how many of them are in daily use.

The whole thing winds me up. My Capri is a 1976 car and that has paid it's dues too, but i still have to cough up £99 for six months tax. Grrrr.

Chris

or... use it more often. you've got free tax ffs

Surely free tax is a contradiction in terms (or oxymoron if your intelligent)? Tax is defined as "A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state " If you don't hand over any dosh, its not a tax.

I would say its exempt from Road Fund Licence, I can remember when my MG qualified the last year of the rolling 25 years. I was always worried there was going to be a sting in the tail with my exempt vehicle, but it still hasn't happened.

I thought the old justification of having to display a RFL disc to prove MOT and Insurance was valid to an extent but the cost was excessive, but now it all computerised and plod can see who has the relavent documentation why does it still carry on.

Its a licence not a tax.

I'm with popuptoaster . i go for cars that get given the tax disc freeee , its a great feeling being given a bit of paper that many have to pay through the nose for

we would be doing those poor souls an injustice not to utilise the gift to its fullest ;D

lets face it this country is far from big , to get anywhere is only a few hours

one day I'm going to diesel one of my tax free old fords and use old veg oil to make the running costs the bare minimum

within a few years the initial cost of the car would get outweighed by the free tax and little tax on the fuel so id be able to take evening trips to wherever i liked and the only cost being time