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Government Car Tax Proposal
ingras
Posts: 1 Newbie
Guys,
Sarah Kennedy was on about this proposed car tax scheme on the radio, apparently there is less than one month left to register your objection to the 'Pay as you go' road tax.
The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people had signed it so far and 750,000 signatures are required to stop them introducing it.
This is legit... from the 10 Downing Street's website.
Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address, just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.
Democracy in action?
The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedom and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
Sign up if you are in agreement with the petition - if not just forget it.
Cheers,
Shaz
Sarah Kennedy was on about this proposed car tax scheme on the radio, apparently there is less than one month left to register your objection to the 'Pay as you go' road tax.
The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people had signed it so far and 750,000 signatures are required to stop them introducing it.
This is legit... from the 10 Downing Street's website.
Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address, just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.
Democracy in action?
The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedom and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
Sign up if you are in agreement with the petition - if not just forget it.
Cheers,
Shaz
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Sounds like yet another stealth tax as well as a gross invasion of privacy.
Thanks for the post.0 -
Here we go yet again, just what on earth does this have to do with insurance?
I think we are currently running at about 3 of these wretched posts a day. All from new users, all pasted straight out of an email obviously doing the rounds of the nations offices, all expecting people to sign a petition blind without any suggestion of an alternative. Where is the proof that this will cost drivers more anyway – it shows all that it is wrong with this country that people are willing to put their name to something without any understanding about the implications of what they are actually signing to.
Here’s an alternative then, lets raise the duty on petrol by 20%.
And can someone put this misleading propaganda somewhere else.0
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