Vehicle Tax

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forgotmyname said:

Someone not checking what they were inputting or missed that section when the prices changed.

Not surprising when you look at how many sections they have now.    Gone from one price suits all cars then 2 prices
depending on the engine size.   And they just seem to add more groups some of which only applies to certain years and
then the groups for additional payments on new cars.

Surely it's pulling the price data from a database somewhere rather than someone sitting there editing HTML documents one by one.

AdrianC

forgotmyname said:

Not surprising when you look at how many sections they have now.    Gone from one price suits all cars then 2 prices
depending on the engine size.   And they just seem to add more groups some of which only applies to certain years and
then the groups for additional payments on new cars.

Umm, it's hardly fast-moving...
"One-price suits all" changed to two based on engine size in 1999, 21 years ago.
CO2-based was introduced in 2001, 19 years ago, with two new bands added in 2006, 14 years ago.
Flat plus list price was introduced in 2017, four years ago.

forgotmyname

LeeUK,   someone had to input the data somewhere. The computers are not physchic.

AdrianC, not fast paced and that was not my comment. Just the number of categories has now expanded and
someone needs to input the data so the more categories they have the more risk of a simple mistake or typo.

How long before electric vehicles are rated on their efficiency? I can see that being a thing.

molerat

Deleted_User said:
Surely it's pulling the price data from a database somewhere rather than someone sitting there editing HTML documents one by one.

You are assuming someone programmed the page to correctly pull that information.

[Deleted User]

forgotmyname said:

LeeUK,   someone had to input the data somewhere. The computers are not physchic.

AdrianC, not fast paced and that was not my comment. Just the number of categories has now expanded and
someone needs to input the data so the more categories they have the more risk of a simple mistake or typo.

How long before electric vehicles are rated on their efficiency? I can see that being a thing.

The infomation entered into the database at a higher level would be more accurately checked compared to some laccy editing an HTML page.

forgotmyname

Deleted_User said:
The infomation entered into the database at a higher level would be more accurately checked compared to some laccy editing an HTML page.

Maybe so but there was a problem with the data. So someone is to blame. Someone had to input the data somewhere for the database to
pickup.  Seems that someone or maybe even a team with a chain of proof readers failed to spot the error. One page gives one value
and other pages/documents give different values.