What taxes on other people would you support?

Herzlos

JP08 wrote: »

:O) Funnily enough - when trying to get through my local town, it's the traffic queues of cars that slow me up on the bike !

Yeah, cars being held up by bikes is very much a rural thing, just like being held up by tractors or Doris on the Sunday run, or roadworks. I reckon I must lose about a minute a month to cyclists.

Even if you were to tax them like cars, they'd be in a £0 band. £2000 is ridiculous and just shows you'd use it as an opportunity to punish cyclists for getting in your way.

JP08

westernpromise wrote: »

Car insurance would also be £70 a year if cars didn't have to have number plates. Like cyclists, after causing an accident a driver without number plates could just leave the scene. Result: no insurance payouts ever!

Nah - it'd be £0. Cyclists in accidents are easy to identify - they are the ones lying on the floor.

westernpromise

zagubov wrote: »

I would suggest a tax on sound pollution by mobiles.

Norman Lamont put a tax on mobile phones in the early 90s then reconsidered it; it was never introduced. I'd tax anything made by Apple because they're such a nasty company.

Norman_Castle

westernpromise wrote: »

The funny thing is that we've had VED for many years before we started panicking about the sky. So constructively, whatever pretext it's levied on, it's a fee to use the roads.

Its not a fee to use the roads. Its a tax levied because governments can justify levying it.
You shouldn't get a rebate for owning two cars. You should be penalised for being greedy.

Norman_Castle

westernpromise wrote: »

Car insurance would also be £70 a year if cars didn't have to have number plates. Like cyclists, after causing an accident a driver without number plates could just leave the scene. Result: no insurance payouts ever!

Car insurance would be £70 a year if incompetent or dishonest motorists didn't cost insurers billions a year.

silverwhistle

A tax on internet trolls. My decision as to who should be included...

whatmichaelsays

Not a tax, but some form of charge or "deposit" for GPs appointments.

If you miss your GP's appointment without cancelling it, or you use your appointment for something stupid, you lose your deposit.

theEnd

I'd love to see cars taxed a lot more.

cells

New homes should pay VAT
That would bring in about £10 billion a year.

But do away with ALL the other crap builders need to go through, no CIL no s106 payments, no social homes provisions by private builders, treat them like any other business. If additional local infrastructure is needed for the development like a school or park it should easily be covered by the £10 billion a year likewise if the government wants more social homes that £10 billion a year can buy a lot of homes in stoke-on-trent for social conversion.

You could make these VAT payments regional (or directly to the local council) as an incentive for the local region/council to accept building more.

westernpromise

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Car insurance would be £70 a year if incompetent or dishonest motorists didn't cost insurers billions a year.

Which could be achieved by allowing them to use the roads anonymously, like cyclists, and to leave the scene of accidents they cause, like cyclists. Since no motorist or cyclist could ever be identified no insurance policy would ever need to pay out. A tax on bikes would cover the few claims that would be made.