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untaxed car question
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Just one thing to say to you op
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Just one thing to say to you op
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I have just one thing to say to you cupofchow
M5?
I pay my road tax every year without fail.
This year I paid £215 last month to last me through until 2011.
I'm sorry but if I'm paying my tax then so should everyone else.
I have done and will continue to report cars I see without tax.
Sitting back doing nothing and "minding my business" is not an option.
You wouldn't do that if you saw anyone comitting any other kind of crime.
This year I paid £215 last month to last me through until 2011.
I'm sorry but if I'm paying my tax then so should everyone else.
I have done and will continue to report cars I see without tax.
Sitting back doing nothing and "minding my business" is not an option.
You wouldn't do that if you saw anyone comitting any other kind of crime.
Soldato
I completely agree with stoofa. Why is it alright for some people not to pay tax when others have to. It is just the same as people fronting or not getting an MOT or stealing cars etc etc.
Soldato
I think there's a growing sense of the reality of how our society is funded.
So road tax dodgers, TV licence non-payers, benefits fraudsters, shoplifters, those who might once have been grudgingly admired for getting one over on The Man, are now seen in a worse light, as maybe leeching off the rest of us.
So road tax dodgers, TV licence non-payers, benefits fraudsters, shoplifters, those who might once have been grudgingly admired for getting one over on The Man, are now seen in a worse light, as maybe leeching off the rest of us.
Soldato
depends where you're from, none of those have ever been admired in the world I grew up in apart from by equal levels of scum.
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So we should fail to report a crime?
Thats like saying "that womans getting raped, but thats alright, we've got police to look for rapists".
Let the tax dodging **** have his comeuppance.
Soldato
I'm not sure what the negative to reporting him is, worst case he's checked out and found to have valid tax/insurance, they'll drop it, he'll never even know.
Soldato
I have just one thing to say to you cupofchow
M5?
I notice he didn't bother posting the pictures of his phantom M5...
I suspect the 'none of your business' brigade would be all too keen on the same people scamming benefits etc. The long and short of it is if you pay all your taxes and insurance and stay legal you are subsidising those who don't.
Do you report everyone you see speeding? Everyone with a brake light out? Someone sounding their horn after 7:30 PM Every under age person having a smoke?
I think it's completely petty and unnecessary if the "crime" isn't actually causing anyone hardship. You are going to become the worst kind of curtain twitcher in your old age with this kind of attitude.
As I stated previously, do you honestly believe that road tax would reduce in price if all tax dodgers starting paying tomorrow? You know it wouldn't. FWIW my car is always taxed insured and MOT'd, I simply don't feel the need to resort to living in a '1984' dystopia where everyone is encouraged to report fellow citizens for the most trivial of crimes.
When has anyone ever "grudgingly admired" benefits fraudsters or shoplifters? What an odd upbringing you must have had.
Car tax wouldn't go down, but suddenly they would have an extra £x million sitting in the transport fund. At least some of this would be used to improve roads, better public transport (so less people drive) and fixing potholes.
Man of Honour
probably won't, but there would be a bit more money in the governments coffers for them to mainly waste...
However if your driving around with a SORN'd car you have to ask why, is it cause they can't be bothered to tax it? can't afford to? can't because it won't pass and MOT, can't because its not insured or even worse can't because hes banned?
If its any of those i don't want it on the same road as me.
Soldato
This is the reason for me, it's not to do with "I have to pay, why shouldnt they" It's the inherent wrongness of doing it, it may well imply that they might be doing other things wrong which could cause more problems.
Soldato
If this was occuring in my street I think it would force me to write a strongly worded letter to the Daily Mail.
Soldato
There's a big difference between having a genuine concern about someone with a bad driving history who you know to be driving while SORN'd and what their other driving malpractices may be, and being a ****.